Chap. 60.—An ACT to authorize the board of agriculture to sell and convey
a certain tract of land situated in the county of Augusta. [H B 66]

Approved February 25, 1922.

Whereas, by deed dated April eight, nineteen hundred and ten,
Lizzie T. Glenn and William Glenn, her husband, conveyed to the
board of agriculture of the Commonwealth of Virginia a certain tract
or parcel of land, together with all the improvements thereon, con-
taining seventy-four acres and thirty poles, more or less, situate
and lying and being in Beverly Manor magisterial district of the
county of Augusta, Virginia, about one mile east of Staunton on
the New Hope road, and being the same tract of land which was
conveyed to the said Lizzie T. Glenn by John B. Cochran, trustee,
by deed bearing date on the twenty-first day of March, nineteen
hundred and eight, of record in the clerk’s office of the circuit court
of Augusta county in deed book number one hundred and fifty-
four, page three hundred and ninety-six, which said deed from the
said Lizzie T. Glenn and William Glenn, her husband, 1s recorded
in the clerk’s office of the circuit court of Augusta county in deed
book number one hundred and sixty-one, page four hundred and
eleven; and,

Whereas, the board of agriculture had and still has authority
under the general law “to purchase or lease land, not to exceed
one hundred acres, in any congressional district, for experimental
purposes in agriculture,” but has no authority under the general law
to dispose of any real estate so purchased; and,

Whereas, the tract of land above described is not well suited for
the purpose for which it was purchased, and the said board deems
it expedient to dispose of the same and to purchase another tract
in its stead; now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the board
of agriculture of the Commonwealth of Virginia be, and the same is
hereby, authorized to sell the tract of land above described, on the
best terms obtainable by it, and to convey the same to the purchaser
or purchasers thereof in fee simple, by deed duly executed, sealed
and acknowledged by the president of the board of agriculture of
the Commonwealth of Virginia, on behalf of the board, after he shall
have been authorized so to do by a resolution adopted by a majority
of the members of the said board ; and the said board may, if it deems
it expedient, accept in whole or in part payment of the purchase
price of the said tract of land, a conveyance to it by the purchaser
or purchasers of other land deemed by the board to be more suited
for its purpose.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.