CHAPTER 276

AN ACT to authorize the State Board of Agriculture and Immigration to
convey certain real estate in Augusta County to the Board of Visitors
of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and 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. 5

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Approved March 11, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. Subject to the approval of the Governor in writing first obtained,
the Virginia State Board of Agriculture and Immigration is empowered
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 one (1) rood and
eighteen (18) poles, more or less, lying and being in South River District,
Augusta County, Virginia, and being the same real estate that was con-
veyed to the Board of Agriculture of the Commonwealth of Virginia by
deed from Harry L. Myers and Hattie A. Myers, his wife, dated November
5, 1927, and recorded in the clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of Augusta
County, to which deed, the plat attached thereto and recorded therewith
and the deeds therein mentioned reference is hereby made for a more
particular description of such tract or parcel of land.

§ 2. Subject to the approval of the Governor in writing first obtained,
the Board of Visitors of Virginia Polytechnic Institute is authorized to sell
at public or private sale and convey by deed, in form approved by the At-
torney General, the property described in § 1 of this act. Such property
may be sold in parcels if it appears most advantageous to Virginia Poly-
technic Institute.

§ 8. 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 In-
stitute now or formerly known as the Walnut Grove Farm, located partly
in Augusta and partly in Rockbridge Counties.

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