Chap. 72.—An ACT to authorize the Special board of directors of the South-
western State Hospital, at Marion, to convey certain tracts of real estate to
the Commission of Game and Inland [isheries as a site for a fish hatchery
and to lease certain water rights to said commission for use in connection
with said hatchery. [H B 104]

Approved February 26, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
Special board of directors of the Southwestern State Hospital, at Ma-
rion, is hereby authorized and empowered to donate and convey to the
Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, by deed, executed by the
chairman of the said special board, or by such other person or persons
as may be designated by the said special board for such purpose, with
covenants of special warranty, two tracts of land lying in Smyth
county, Virginia, owned by the State of Virginia for the use and ben-
efit of said hospital, and described as follows:

A. A tract of land containing approximately eight (8) acres and
known as the Preston and Cummings Spring tract which was conveyed
to the State of Virginia by the board of supervisors of Smyth county
by deed dated January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five,
recorded in the clerk’s office of Smyth county in deed book sixteen,
page one hundred and ten.

B, A tract of approximately ten and three-tenths (10.3) acres be-
ing a part of the land which was conveyed to Southwestern Virginia
Hospital by G. G, Killinger and others and being a tract on which the
fish hatchery of Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries is now lo-
cated. The said board of directors is further authorized and em-
powered to execute a lease for a term not exceeding fifty (50) years,
upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon by
said board of directors and said commission covering the flow of water
from two reclaimed springs lying on the property of Southwestern
State Hospital just south of the ten and three-tenths (10.3) acre tract,
and the everflow water, if any, from the spring now used by South-
western State Hospital for use in said fish hatchery.

Said land and water right is to be used by said commission for the
operation of a fish hatchery and to revert to the Southwestern State
Hospital when the same is no longer used for such purpose.