Chap. 198.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act
authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of any two or more
counties in this State, or the board of supervisors of any one or more of
the counties in this State and the council or councils of any one or more
of the several cities in this State, to establish a home for the care and
maintenance of the poor; to authorize the sale and conveyance of certain
real and personal property belonging to such cities and counties as may adopt
the provisions of this act; to authorize the authorities of such counties and
cities to purchase farms of suitable size, fertility and location; to authorize
such authorities to erect suitable buildings to be called district homes, to
which all of the counties and cities composing such district must send its
poor, and care for same; providing for the appointment of boards of con-
trol, superintendents, physicians and necessary employees; and to abolish
county and city poor houses in the several counties which adopt the pro-
visions of this act, approved March 14, 1918. [H B 285]

Approved March 16, 1920.

l. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three of an act entitled an act authorizing and empowering the board
of supervisors of any two or more'counties in this State, or the
board of supervisors of any one or more of the counties in this State
and the council or councils of any one or more of the several cities
in this State, to establish a home for the care and maintenance of the
poor: to authorize the sale and conveyance of certain real and per-
sonal property belonging to such cities and counties as may adopt the
Provisions of this act; to authorize the authorities of such counties
and cities to purchase farms of suitable size, fertility and location;
to authorize such authorities to erect suitable buildings to be called
district homes, to which all of the counties and cities composing such
district must send its poor, and care for same; providing for the ap-
pointment of boards of control, superintendents, physicians and neces-
sary employees; and to abolish county and city poor houses in the
several counties and cities which adopt the provisions of this act,
approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

3. The boards of supervisors of the respective counties and the
councils of the several cities in the State for which such district homes
are established are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey
by proper deed all the real estate held by them for the use, benefit
and maintenance of their poor, and to sell all personal property used
for that purpose, and out of the proceeds to appropriate so much
as may be required by this act for each county or city to purchase
farms, stock, tools. and all other necessary equipment, and to erect
district homes as hereinafter provided.

The necessary funds, however, to purchase the said farms, stock,
tools, and all other necessary equipment, and to erect the said district
homes, may be appropriated by the boards of supervisors of the re-
spective counties and the councils of the several cities in the State for
which such district homes are established from the general funds of
such counties and cities, the said general funds to be reimbursed
from the proceeds of the sale of the above mentioned real estate -and
personal property now used by the several counties and cities for the
benefit and maintenance,of their poor.