CHAPTER 184

An Act to provide for acceptance of a gift or devise of certain property
to the Commonwealth of Virginia, as an historic site. cH 113)

Approved March 5, 1964

Whereas, Misses Ella I. and Elizabeth Jordan, present owners of a
tract of land in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, known as “Fort Boykin”
have indicated a desire to devise the same to the Commonwealth o
Virginia; now, therefore

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1, § 1. The Governor of Virginia is authorized to accept, on behalf of
the Commonwealth of Virginia, when the same becomes available to the
Commonwealth by gift or devise, that certain tract, piece or parcel of
land situate, lying and being in Hardy Magisterial District, County of Isle
of Wight, generally known as “Fort Boykin’, and containing fourteen and
forty-three hundredths acres according to a survey, a plat of which is duly
of record in the Clerk’s Office of the County, in Plat Book 1, at page 56,
and is particularly described in deed from Katherine L. Gwaltney and
husband to Ella I., Elizabeth and Susan D. Jordan, recorded in such
Clerk’s Office on December 26, 1950, as a part of the State Park System
should he deem the conditions of the devise to be in the best interests of
the Commonwealth.