Chap. 84.—An ACT to authorize the State board of public welfare to sell
and convey certain lots, pieces or parcels of ground situated in the
city of Newport News, and to use the proceeds of sale to purchase other
property more suitable for a detention home for the cities of Newport
News and Hampton. [S B 72]

Approved March 23, 1923.

Whereas, by deed dated the first day of June, nineteen hun-
dred and eighteen and recorded in the clerk’s office of the cor-
poration court of the city of Newport News on the first day of
August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, Thomas W. Blackstone
and Sarah P. W. Blackstone conveyed to S. C. Hatcher, L. P.
Stearnes, Peter Winston, A. L. Roper and James Bellwood, who
then constituted the State board of charities and corrections,
and to their successors in office, to be held by them in trust as a
detention home for the cities of Newport News and Hampton,
“certain lots, pieces or parcels of grounds situate in the city of
Newport News, State of Virginia, and known and designated
by the lots numbered three (3), four (4) and five (5) in block
number seventy-nine (79) on a certain map, entitled ‘map of
part of the city of Newport News, Virginia,’ which said map is
duly recorded in the clerk’s office of the corporation court of the
city of Newport News, Virginia, in plat book no. one, page
three”; and,

Whereas, by an act approved February twenty-seventh, nine-
teen hundred and twenty-two, the name of the State board of
charities and corrections was changed to State board of public
welfare; and,
Whereas, the said State board of public welfare deems it
expedient to sell and convey the above described property and to
use the proceeds of such sale for the purpose of purchasing other
and more suitable property to be used for the same purpose; to-
wit, a detention home for the cities of Newport News and Hamp-
ton, Virginia; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the State board of public welfare be, and it is hereby, authorized
to sell the above described property, 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 and acknowledged
by the chairman of the said board, 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. The proceeds
of such sale shall be used to purchase other and more suitable
property to be used for the same purpose, to-wit, a detention
home for the cities of Newport News and Hampton.

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