Chap. 425.—An ACT to empower the State library board to make such disposition
as it may see fit, involving surrender of title, of a portrait labelled as that
of Robert Brooke, governor of Virginia, now hanging in the governor's
mansion, some disposition thereof being called for on the petition of Dr. T.
V. Brooke, of Pittsylvania county, and his sisters. [H B 375]

Approved March 24, 1928

Whereas a question has arisen between Dr. T. V. Brooke. a
venerable Confederate veteran of Sutherlin, in Pittsylvania county,
Virginia, and his sisters, on the one part, and the State library
board, on the other, as to the just and appropriate disposition of a
portrait in possession of the State, and formerly hanging in the
State library and purporting, at the instance of the State, to be a
portrait of Governor Robert Brooke of Virginia, great-grandfather
of said Dr. T. V. Brooke:

And whereas said State library board, on a petition and athdavit
of said Dr. Brooke and his sisters as to the disposition of said
portrait, has taken no action because said board feels that it has not
the jurisdiction nor the authority to grant the request of the peti-
tioners, should it deem such granting just and appropriate, unless
a proper grant of power to it be made by the State;

And whereas said board is deemed the proper agency to act tor
the State in this matter and has the custody of said portrait now
hanging in the governor’s mansion; now, therefore,

1. Be it, and it is hereby, enacted by the general assembly ot
Virginia, That said State library board is hereby fully empowered,
in the premises, to make such disposition of said portrait, including
surrender of title, as to said board may seem, fit, just and ap-
propriate.