Chap. 3.—An ACT to provide, with certain conditions and restrictions, a site
on a portion of the land in the western section of the city of Richmond

_ known as the Soldiers’ Home property, for the establishment and conduct
thereon by the Home for Needy Confederate Women, a corporation existing
under the laws of Virginia, of a home for the needy widows, wives, sisters
and daughters of Confederate soldiers, sailors and marines, such home to be

a memorial to the women of the Southern Confederacy. [S B 19]

Approved January 28, 1926.

Whereas, it is the desire of the Home for Needy Confederate
Women, a corporation existing under the laws of Virginia, to estab-
lish and conduct, as a memorial to the women of the Southern Con-
federacy, a home for the needy widows, wives, sisters and daughters
of Confederate soldiers, sailors and marines; and,

Whereas, the Commonwealth of Virginia will soon become seized
and possessed of a certain tract of land in the western section of the
city of Richmond, under and by virtue of a contract with the R. E.
Lee Camp, Number One, Confederate Veterans, which contract is
embodied in an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, as amended, and under and by virtue of deed from the
R. E. Lee Camp, Number One, Confederate Veterans, dated March
twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two and duly recorded
in the clerk’s office of Henrico county; and,

Whereas, at a meeting of the R. E. Lee Camp, Number One, Con-
federate Veterans, held in the city of Richmond on the twenty-first
day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, a resolution
was adopted authorizing and requesting the general assembly of Vir-
ginia to grant and convey to the Home for Needy Confederate Wo-
men, a part of the tract aforesaid, for the purpose of erecting thereon
buildings for a Needy Confederate Women’s Home; and,

Whereas, because the said tract of land has long been the site of
the home for Confederate soldiers and is thus intimately associated
with Confederate memories, and also-because of its location adjoining
the Confederate Memorial Institute, it will constitute a peculiarly
fitting and appropriate site for the home which the Home for Needy
Confederate Women is desirous of establishing and conducting, now,
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That R. E.
Lee Camp, Number One, Confederate Veterans, be and it is hereby,
authorized and empowered to execute and deliver a proper deed con-
veying to the Home for Needy Confederate Women, a corporation
existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, for the
purposes set forth in the preamble of this act, a portion of the said
tract of land to contain not more than two and one-half acres, the
said portion to front on Sheppard street and the location and metes
and bounds of which shall be as fixed and determined by the governor,
the chairman of the governing board of the R. E. Lee Camp Soldiers’
Home of Richmond, Virginia, and the president of the Home for
Needy Confederate Women, which portion shall be accurately de-
scribed by metes and bounds and shown on a plat to be attached to
and recorded with the said deed as a part thereof.

2. That the governor of Virginia be, and he is hereby, authorized
and empowered, for and on behalf of the Commonwealth, to join in
the said deed in order to convey all the right, title and interest, both
present and prospective, of the Commonwealth of Virginia, except
as in this act provided, in and to the said approximately two and
one-half acres of the said tract of land. Such deed shall contain the
conditions and restrictions set out in the next succeeding section of
this act and shall otherwise conform to this act; it shall be under the
lesser seal of the Commonwealth, and its form and substance shall be
approved by the attorney general as conforming to this act before it
is executed. |
_ 3, That said deed shall provide that the right, title and interest
in and to the said property so conveyed shall remain in the said gran-
tee, in consideration of the erection and conduct thereon of a home
for the needy widows, wives, sisters and daughters of Confederate
soldiers, sailors and marines, as a memorial to the women of the
Southern Confederacy, so long as the grantee shall conduct the same
in conformity with this act, subject to the following conditions and
restrictions:

The building or buildings to be erected on the granted land for
the purposes mentioned in this act shall cost not less than two hun-
dred and fifty thousand dollars.

The governor of the State shall be ex-officio a member of the gov-
erning board of the home.

The art commission of Virginia, or such State agency as may per-
form the work of the art commissions, shall approve plans and speci-
fications for all buildings and landscape work.

The governing board of the home shall have authority and may
be required by the Commonwealth to deed, rent or lease such portion
of the land granted as may be necessary for streets or passways through
the granted property in order to promote the use or development of
the residue of the Soldiers’ Home property.

Until work on the buildings is commenced, the board of the Sol-
diers’ Home shall have the right to use the granted land for such pur-
poses as it may desire for the benefit of the Soldiers’ Home.

The right to the joint use of the sewers and water mains and pipes
now under the surface of the granted land shall be reserved, and the
further right is reserved to put down new or additional mains and
pipes and to maintain the same to promote the use or development of
the residue of the Soldiers’ Home property.

Upon the failure of the grantee to establish the said home within
eight years from the date of the deed and to conduct, maintain and
operate it continuously after its establishment for the uses, purposes
and objects for which the conveyance is made, and subject to the con-
ditions and restrictions contained in this act, or upon the exhaustion
of all of the classes of beneficiaries that might be entitled to be ad-
mitted to the home under the provisions of this act, then the said
property shall revert to the Commonwealth in fee simple, with the
right to the Commonwealth to take immediate possession thereof.