CHAPTER 398

An Act to appropriate funds in aid of the restoration of “Scotchtown’”,
the home of Patrick Henry during the American Revolution.

[H 161]
Approved March 31, 1964

Whereas, “Scotchtown”, one of the oldest of the Virginia plantation
houses, the home of Patrick Henry during the years of his greatest fame,
the girlhood home of Dolly Madison, one of the most colorful of the
Virginia born “first ladies’ of the United States, and the home of other
distinguished Virginians, has been acquired by the Hanover County
Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
with a view to its restoration; and

Whereas, It is fitting that this historic building should be made a
shrine to the memory of those illustrious Virginians who called it home;
now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund of the
State treasury to the Scotchtown Committee of the Hanover County
Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
the sum of five thousand dollars for each year of the biennium beginning
July one, nineteen hundred sixty-four.

§ 2. The funds herein appropriated shall be expended for the resto-
ration of “Scotchtown” in such manner as shall be determined by the
Scotchtown Committee of the Hanover Branch of the Association for the
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. The Treasurer of said Branch shall
keep such records of and make such reports concerning the expenditure
of these funds as shall be prescribed by the Comptroller.