Chap. 371.—An ACT to provide, with certain restrictions, a site for the estab-
lishment of a Confederate memorial park to be known as the R. E. Lee Camp
Confederate Memorial Park; to provide for the establishment, management,
control, maintenance and operation of said park, and to provide for the dis-
position of any revenues derived from said park. [S B 247]

Approved March 29, 1934

Whereas, the Commonwealth of Virginia will soon become seized
and possessed of a certain tract of land in the western part of the
city of Richmond, under and by virtue of a contract with 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 a deed from R. E. Lee Camp
number one, Confederate Veterans, dated March twenty-fourth, eight-
een hundred and ninety-two and duly recorded in the clerk’s office
of the circuit court of Henrico county; and,

Whereas, said tract of land has long been the site of the home for
Confederate soldiers, sailors and marines, and is thus intimately as-
sociated with Confederate memories and is also near the Confederate
Memorial Institute and the Home for Needy Confederate Women,
and for said reasons will constitute a peculiarly fitting and appro-
priate location for a Confederate memorial park, now, therefore;

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That there
is hereby set apart and dedicated to the perpetual occupancy and use
of the R. E. Lee Camp Confederate Memorial Park, which is hereby
created, all of that tract of land located in the western part of the city
of Richmond constituting the R. E. Lee Camp number one, soldiers’
home grounds, except so much of said property as has been granted
and conveyed to the Confederate Memorial Institute and to the Home
for Needy Confederate Women, and except so much of said property
as may be set aside and dedicated to the occupancy and use of the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts at the present session of the Gen-
eral Assembly.

2. No further buildings shall be erected upon said property for
any purpose, except that in the discretion of the board hereinafter
created; one building of proper design, approved by the Art Com-
mission, and of proper fireproof construction may be erected thereon
to be used as a museum for the housing and display of mementoes,
relics and other personal property of historical significance on account
of its association with the Southern Confederacy and especially relics
of R. E. Lee Camp number one, Confederate Veterans.

(a) Said dedication shall be subject to all the rights, powers
and privileges heretofore conferred upon R. E. Lee Camp number
one, Confederate Veterans, as to the possession of the said property
so long as the same is used for the purpose for which it was established,
and neither this act nor the said dedication shall in any manner affect
or impair the right of said camp to so use and occupy said property,
nor shall this act or said dedication impair or affect any appropriation
heretofore or hereafter made by the General Assembly or others fot
the use and benefit of said camp and its members.

3. The management and control of the property herein set apart
and dedicated, which shall hereafter be known and designated as the
R. E. Lee Camp Confederate Memorial Park, shall be vested in a
board of directors consisting of nine members, composed of com-
mander of R. E. Lee Camp number one, Confederate Veterans, the
Lieutenant-Governor, the mayor of the city of Richmond, the State
Librarian, and the president of the Virginia Division, United Daugh.
ters of the Confederacy, who shall be ex-officio members, and four
members to be appointed by the Governor as follows: two from the
membership of the Virginia Division United Daughters of the Con-
federacy, one of whom shall be from the city of Richmond and one
from the State of Virginia at large, one from among the membershi
of the Sons of Confederate Veterans; and one from among the mem-
bership of the American Legion, Virginia Department. Vacancies in
the membership of said board shall be filled by the Governor. If
a vacancy shall occur in the representation on said board from R. E.
Lee Camp number one, Confederate Veterans and there are no sur-
viving members of said camp, some prominent public spirited citizen
of Richmond shall be appointed to fill such vacancy; the ex-officio
members and the other members of said board shall be entitled to
vote on all questions before the board.

4. The board shall organize by adopting by-laws governing its
organization and procedure and by electing one of its number president.
The board may also provide for an executive committee, composed
of not less than three members of said board, which committee may
exercise the powers vested in, and perform the duties imposed upon,
the board by this act to the extent designated and permitted by said
board.

5. The said board of directors are hereby vested with full power
and authority to manage, control and operate the property herein
set apart and dedicated, including any building and contents and fur-
nishings thereof upon said property, under such regulations as it
may deem proper, to employ such persons as may be necessary to
manage, maintain and operate the property for the purposes for which
the same is herein dedicated, to suspend or remove any person so
employed, and to determine what relics, statuary, works of art and
mementoes may be kept, housed or exhibited on the property herein
dedicated, to acquire by gift, loan or otherwise records, paintings,
statuary and works of art and relics relating to the history of the
Southern Confederacy, and to enter into agreements with organiza-
tions interested in the perpetuation of Confederate memories and
traditions, and to do all other acts and things necessary and proper
to carry out the provisions of this act.

6. All money received by the board for current expenses in con-
ducting and operating the property hereby set apart and dedicated
shall be paid into the State treasury where it shall be set aside as a
special fund for the maintenance and operation of said property for
the purposes for which the same is herein set apart and dedicated, for
which purpose such money is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of
the State treasury upon warrants of the Comptroller issued upon
vouchers signed by the president of said board or by his duly author-
ized agent.