Chap. 141.—An ACT to amend section 3 of an act approved March 3, 1892, en-
titled an act making an annual appropriation to the Confederate Soldiers’
Home, and in consideration therefor accepting a conveyance from R. E.
Lee Camp No. 1, Confederate Veterans, of the property owned by it and
now used for said home, so as to extend the time when the possession and
control of the property conveyed in the deed from R. E. Lee Camp No. 1,
Confederate Veterans, to the Commonwealth of Virginia, dated March 24,
1892, shall pass from the grantor to the grantee in said deed; and to
further extend the time when the possession and control of said prop-
erty shal] pass from the grantor to the grantee in said deed. [H B 46]

Approved March 6, 1920.

Whereas, at the time of the passage of the said act of March third,
eighteen hundred and ninety-two, it was agreed that at the expiration
of twenty-two years from that date the possession and control of the
property conveyed to the Commonwealth of Virginia, in pursuance
of said act, should pass from the grantor to the grantee; and whereas
it is now deemed necessary and proper in consequence of the demands
of Confederate soldiers and sailors for support in and admission to
said home, to further extend the time for vesting the possession and
control of said property from the grantor to the grantee beyond
thirty years from March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the
time specified in the act approved March seventh, nineteen hundred
and twelve; therefore,

- 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three of an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-
two entitled an act making an annual appropriation to the Confed-
erate soldiers’ home, and in consideration therefor accepting a con-
veyance from R. E. Lee camp, number one, Confederate veterans, of
the property owned by it and now used for said home, as amended by
the act approved March seventh, nineteen hundred and twelve, be
further amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 3. In consideration of the annual appropriation contained
in the preceding section, and before any money is received under
this act, it shall be the duty of said camp to execute, deliver, and
have recorded a deed to be approved by the attorney-general con-
veying the twenty-five acres of grounds now owned by it and used
as a soldiers’ home and the improvements now or hereafter to be
erected thereon, to the Commonwealth of Virginia, which said deed
shall contain a condition that it shall not divest the possession and
control of said property from the grantor (unless said grantor con-
sents to surrender such possession and control before that time, which
it may do), so long as said property is used for the purposes for which
it is now used, and which it 1s agreed will be thirty-six years from
March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two (the date of said first
named act); and a further condition that said camp may erect, or
allow to be erected, on said property in such locality or locations as
may be agreed upon by it and the governor, any statue or statues to
the memory of fallen Confederates.

2. This act shall not repeal or affect any other provisions of said
act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, nor the
provisions of any act or acts making appropriations to said soldiers’
home since the passage of that act. Provided, that nothing in this
act ‘contained shall be construed as affecting in any way that portion
of the said twenty-five acres of ground which has been conveyed to
the Confederate memorial institute, in pursuance of the act of the
general assembly approved March second, nineteen hundred and ten.