CHAPTER 311
An Act to require the State Library Board to have prepared and to erect
a historical marker near the plantation of Colonel George Eskridge

in Westmoreland County; and to make an appropriation. 402

[S 102]

Approved March 30, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The State Library Board is hereby directed to have prepared
and to erect, prior to January one, nineteen hundred sixty-three, a
historical marker in an appropriate location on the highway in West-
moreland County near the plantation of Colonel George Eskridge, bearing
substantially the following inscription:

Here at Sandy Point, Mary Ball, the Mother of George Washington,
spent her youth in the home of her guardian, Colonel George Eskridge.
Here she was married to Augustine Washington in March 1731. She
named her eldest son, George, for Colonel Eskridge.

2. There is hereby appropriated to the State Library Board out of
the general fund of the State treasury a sum sufficient, not exceeding
two hundred dollars, for the purposes set forth in this act.