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LIZZIE B. MILLER FARM

The following report, prepared by W. Allan Perkins, Attorney for the University, was presented
to the Board.

By her will, which was admitted to probate in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of
Rockingham County, Virginia, on January 31, 1936, Miss Lizzie B. Miller, after giving to T. Ferdinand
Bowen all of her personal property, both tangible and intangible, made the following devise-

The said Miss Lizzie B. Miller died seised and possessed of a tract of land situated in
Rockingham County, Virginia, and lying on both sides of State Highway No. 12 immediately north of the
Town of Elkton and containing by recent survey of A. R. Myers, S.R.C., 509.987 acres, more or less.

The said T. Ferdinand Bowen died on February 11, 1951, and upon termination of his life
estate said property passed under said will to The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia.
And in the event of a sale by them of said real estate the proceeds therefrom shall be invested and
the income used for the benefit of charity patients at the University of Virginia Hospital

The Executive Committee of this Board, and the Attorney for the University were of opinion
that this farm should be sold as promptly as possible, and that such sale should be at public auction.
In accordance with this decision the place was widely advertised, in newspapers and by handbills, and on
Saturday, April 28, 1951, it was offered for sale in front of the Court House in Harrisonburg. This sale
was largely attended and many bids were submitted. The place was finally knocked out to Celdon Lee Kite
of Rockingham County at the price of $61,100.00 which was the last and highest bid received.

Mr. Kite has requested that conveyance be made to himself and to his wife, Mrs. Eula Florence
Kite "in equal interests".

The following resolution was thereupon unanimously adopted-

RESOLVED: That sale of the Lizzie B. Miller farm in Rockingham County, Virginia, consisting of
509.987 acres, more or less, to Celdon Lee Kite at the price of $61,100.00 cash be, and is hereby
approved and confirmed, and Colgate W. Darden, Jr., President, is hereby authorized and directed to
execute a deed in the name and on behalf of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia by
which said tract of land is conveyed, with Special Warranty of Title, to the said Celdon Lee Kite and
Eula Florence Kite, his wife, "in equal interests", said Celdon Lee Kite having requested that conveyance
be made to himself and to his said wife "in equal interests" instead of to himself alone. And
Vincent Shea, Secretary of this Board is hereby authorized and directed to affix the corporate seal to
said deed, to attest the same and to deliver said deed to said purchasers upon payment to him as Bursar
of the purchase money in full.