CHAPTER 232

An Act to vest fee simple title to certain land in the city of Richmond in
the Virginia Historical Society, successor by merger to the Confed-
erate Memorial Association, by releasing and quitclaiming to the
Virginia Historical Society a possibility of reverter in said land
retained by the Commonwealth pursuant to Chapter 82 of the Acts
of Assembly, 1910, approved March 2, 1910, and to authorize and
direct the Governor to execute a deed for such purpose. CH 420]

Approved March 5, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The Commonwealth of Virginia hereby releases to the Virginia
Historical Society forever the possibility of reverter with right of re-entry
retained by the Commonwealth in all that certain parcel of land lying in
the city of Richmond and containing six and three hundred seventy-seven
thousandths acres, more or less, which was conveyed on behalf of the
Commonwealth to the Confederate Memorial Association, a Mississippi
corporation, by deed dated February 28, 1911, and duly recorded in the
clerk’s office of the chancery court of the city of Richmond, together with
the improvements thereon under the provisions of Chapter 82 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1910, approved March 2, 1910.

§ 2. The Governor is authorized and directed for and on behalf of
the Commonwealth, to execute a deed, the form of which shall be approved
by the Attorney General, attested by the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
conveying to the Virginia Historical Society in fee simple any and all
right, title and interest of the Commonwealth in said six and three hun-
dred and seventy-seven thousandths acres of land in the city of Richmond,
including the possibility of reverter with right of re-entry to said prop-
erty retained under the Act approved March 2, 1910, and the deed exe-
cuted pursuant thereto on February 28, 1911.