Chap. 60.—An ACT to transfer the jurisdiction and control of a certain tract of land
in Roanoke County from the State Board of Health to the State Highway Com-
mission and to authorize the latter agency to use said land for highway pur-
poses. [S 118]

Approved February 26, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the jurisdiction and control of that certain real estate situ-
ated in the County of Roanoke, Virginia, consisting of approximately
thirteen and one-tenth acres of land and being the same land described in
a certain deed from C. B. Strickler and Lizzie Strickler, his wife, to the
Commonwealth of Virginia, bearing date of April fifteenth, nineteen
hundred and twelve, and recorded in the Clerk’s office of the Circuit
Court of Roanoke County, Virginia, on the twentieth day of April, nine-
teen hundred and twelve, be and the same is hereby transferred from the
State Board of Health to the State Highway Commission, which latter
agency is hereby authorized to use said land as a nursery for the develop-
ment of trees, shrubs, and the like to be transplanted upon highway rights
of way and for any other highway purposes to which it deems it necessary
or appropriate to devote said land.