CHAPTER 129

An Act to amend and reenact § 57-19 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
conveyances of land to benevolent and other associations and making
them subject to certain sections.

[H 367]

Approved March 3, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

Har That § 57-19 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 57-19. When any conveyance of land has been or shall be made to
trustees for the use of any society of Freemasons, Odd Fellows, Sons of
Temperance, posts of Veterans of Foreign Wars or of the American Legion,
Spanish War Veterans, Disabled American Veterans and of other asso-
ciations of veterans of the armed forces of the United States, or any other
benevolent or literary associations, or school league, or if without the
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intervention of trustees such conveyance has been made since the thirty-
first day of March, eighteen hundred forty-eight, or shall be hereafter
made for such use, §§ 57-8, 57-11, 57-14 and 57-15 shall be construed as
if they were expressly made applicable to such association, post or society.
Whenever such association, post or society has been in undisputed pos-
session, for a period of twenty-five years or more, of any real estate, and
for which there is no deed of record, § 57-17 shall be construed as if tt
was expressly made applicable to such association, post or society.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.