Chap. 76.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide
for the conveyance by the Prison Association of Virginia-of the Laurel
Industrial School, its property, real and personal, located in the county of
Henrico and the State of Virginia; that the State will assume the control,
operation and management of the same in accordance with the charter of
the said association, approved March 16, 1918. _ [S B 30)

Approved February 21, 1920.

Whereas, the Prison Association of Virginia, created and incor-
porated under the laws of the State of Virginia, by an act approved
March third, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended and re-enacted
by an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, has
established the Laurel Industrial School for the custody, care, training
and reformation of incorrigible and delinquent white boys between
the ages of eight and twenty-one years, committed to it under the
laws of this Commonwealth; and

Whereas, since its organization the general assembly has been
making appropriations for support and equipment of said Prison Asso-
ciation of Virgima, and the public school conducted in connection
therewith; and

Whereas, the Commonwealth by said appropriations has practically
supported the said institution from its foundation; and |

Whereas, it is deemed advisable that such institution shall be
under State ownership, control, operation and management, and the
said Prison Association of Virginia having expressed a willingness
to convey to the State of Virginia all of its property, consisting of a
tract of land in Henrico county, containing one hundred and seventy-
ve acres, more or less, with improvements thereon, and a tract ot
land in the county of Powhatan containing fourteen hundred and
ninety (1490) acres, more or less, with improvements thereon, and
all its personal property located on both of said tracts of land, or else-
where, consisting of stock, farming implements, vehicles, household
and kitchen furniture, and so forth, upon the condition that the State
of Virginia shall accept said property and"shall conduct the affairs
of said institution and the school connected therewith in accordance
with the purposes set forth and declared in the charter or act of in-
corporation of said Prison Association of Virginia, and the act estab-
lishing a public school in connection with said institution, and acts
amendatory thereof: ,

Therefore, be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to provide for the conveyance of the Prison As-
sociation of Virginia of the Laurel Industrial School, its property, real
and personal, located in the county of Henrico, to the State of Vir-
ginia; that the State will_assume control, operation and management
of the same in accordance with the charter of the said association,
approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 1. That if, upon examination of the title of the real estate
of the said Prison Association of Virginia, the said title shall be
approved by the attorney-general of Virginia, and upon conveyance
by the said Prison Association of Virginia to the Commonwealth of
Virginia by deed duly executed and acknowledged for record, and
approved by the attorney-general, of all of its property, real and
personal, aforesaid, located as aforesaid, the Commonwealth of Vir-
ginia shall take possession and control of all of the said property
of said Prison Association of Virginia and conduct the affairs of the
said institution, and the public school connected therewith, for the
purposes set forth in the charter or act of incorporation of said Prison
Association of Virginia, and as provided in chapter eighty-two of the
Virginia Code of nineteen hundred and nineteen, and thereafter operate
and maintain the same as a separate State institution for the custody,
care and training of incorrigible or delinquent white boys of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, under the name of Virginia Industrial
School for Boys.

Sec. 2. That upon the Commonwealth of Virginia assuming.
ownership of the property, and control and operation of the affairs
of said corporation hertofore known as the Prison Association of
Virginia or Laurel Industrial School, it shall be governed by a board
of directors of not less than five nor more than nine members, to be
appointed by the governor of the Commonwealth and confirmed by the
senate, and whose term of office shall conform to the terms of office
of the directors of State hospitals.

Sec. 3. That any indebtedness incurred by said Prison Associa-
tion of Virginia and existing on the date of the conveyance to the
State of Virginia of all of the property of the said Prison Association
of Virginia shall be assumed and paid by the Commonwealth of Vir-
ginia.

sec. 4. That nothing in this act or in the acceptance of the said
deed by the Commonwealth shall be construed to prevent the sale of
said property and the change of the location of the said institution;
provided, the Commonwealth shall maintain said institution until the
sale of said property, and that the proceeds of the sale of said prop-
erty shall be reinvested in a reformatory institution for the purposes
set forth in the charter of the Prison Association of Virginia; and
provided further, that said institution shall not be made a part of or
connected in any way with the Virginia Penitentiary, or any other
penal institution of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Sec. 5. That the governor of Virginia and the board of directors
of said institution be, and they are hereby, authorized to make sale
of its property, or any part thereof, and to locate the said institution
elsewhere if, in their judgment, the same shall be deemed advisable,
provided the same is done in the manner and for the purposes herein
set forth.

Sec. 6. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed; and an emergency existing by reason of the neces-
sity for ascertaining the necessary appropriations to be made for the
maintenance of said institution, this act shall be in force from its
passage.