CHAPTER 40

AN ACT to authorize the State Board of Agriculture and Immigration to
convey certain real estate to the Board of Visitors of Virginia Poly-
technic Institute; to authorize and permit the Board of Visitors of
Virginia Polytechnic Institute to sell such real estate and provide for
disposition of the proceeds of such sale.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: .

1. § 1. Subject to the approval of the Governor in writing first ob-
tained, the Virginia State Board of Agriculture and Immigration is em-
powered to convey by deed in form approved by the Attorney General,
to the Board of Visitors of Virginia Polytechnic Institute the following
described property:

All that certain tract or parcel of land containing 30.96 acres more
or less lying and being in South River District of the County of Augusta,
Virginia, and being the same real estate that was conveyed to the Board
of Agriculture by deed from S. C. Neff and Gertrude B. Neff, his wife,
dated April 3, 1922, and recorded in the clerk’s office of the Circuit Court
of Augusta County to which deed and the deeds therein mentioned refer-
ence is hereby made for a more particular description.

§ 2. Subject to the approval of the Governor in writing first ob-
tained, the Board of Visitors of Virginia Polytechnic Institute is author-
ized to sell at public or private sale and convey by deed in form approved
by the Attorney General the property described in § 1 of this act. Such
property may be sold in parcels if it appears most advantageous to Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute.

§ 3. The proceeds of any such sale shall be paid into the treasury
to the credit of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and shall be used for capital
outlay at the site of the Experiment Station of Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute now or formerly known as the Walnut Grove Farm, located partly
in Augusta and partly in Rockbridge counties.