VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY ~ 1930
Chap. 177. An ACT to appropriate thirty thousand dollars for putting the Confederate plots in Oakwood cemetery in perpetual care. [Senate Bill 11]
Approved March 20, 1930
- Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the sum of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) is appropriated to place the seven and one-half acres, more or less, of Confederate plots in Oakwood cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, in perpetual care of the government of the city of Richmond. Five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) of this amount must be expended to put these plots of Confederate dead in the order they should be, and the remainder of the said sum is to be paid the city of Richmond to forever preserve and maintain perpetual care of these plots of Confederate dead.
Provided however that this appropriation shall not be effective until the trust herein imposed is accepted by the proper authorities of the city of Richmond in such manner as shall be approved by the attorney general and the governor.
- It shall be the duty of the governor of Virginia to annually visit these plots and register his approval or disapproval of the care of said plots to the mayor of the city of Richmond.
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