CHAPTER 292

An Act to authorize the Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of
Mental Hygiene and Hospitals, to transfer and convey to the Vir-
ginia Gas Distribution Company an easement on certain property in
the county of Augusta.

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Approved March 16, 1954 |

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1, § 1. The Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Mental Hygiene
and Hospitals, is authorized and empowered to convey by deed executed
by the Chairman of the State Hospital Board, to the Virginia Gas Dis-
tribution Company, an easement in that certain piece or parcel of land
now belonging to the Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Mental
Hygiene and Hospitals, lying in and being a part of a forty-eight acre
tract of land conveyed to the Commonwealth of Virginia by Gore and
Cline on July 18, 1945, and recorded in the office of the County Clerk of
Augusta County in Deed Book 331, at page 322, located in the Beverly
District of the County of Augusta, such easement being more fully
described by a survey dated September 29, 1953, designated as F-138,
which survey is to be made a part of the deed. The easement to be con-
veyed is described as follows:

Beginning at an iron pipe, which is located N 84° 30’ E—16 feet
from a stake in the northeasterly right of way line of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway, said stake being located 595 feet, southeasterly along
said right of way line, from a fence corner, a common corner to the lands
of S. B. Talbert and lands of the Commonwealth of Virginia; thence
N 84° 30’ E—20 feet to and iron pipe; thence S 5° 30’ E—20 feet to an
iron pipe; thence S 84° 30’ W—20 feet to an iron pipe; thence N 5° 30’
W—to the beginning and containing 400 square feet or .0092 of an acre.

The conveyance shall be made upon such terms and conditions as the
Department shall deem proper and shall be subject to approval by the
Governor. Such deed shall be approved by the Attorney General of Vir-
ginia as to form.

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