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LITTLE STONY GAME AND FISH PRESERVE, INC. - DEED TO STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT:

The President presented a deed to the meeting by the State Department of Highways by which
a right of way is conveyed by Little Stony Game and Fish Preserve, Inc., over the property of said
corporation in Giles County heretofore leased to the University by contract dated August 26, 1932,
and upon which tract of land the University's Mountain Lake Biological Station is located. Said
deed contains a clause by which The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia unites in said
conveyance and releases to the Department of Highways or to the Commonwealth of Virginia all right,
title and interest held by it in and to the strip of land conveyed by said deed for highway purposes
by virtue of its lease aforesaid.

It was thereupon,

RESOLVED that copy of said deed be filed as a part of the minutes
of this meeting, and that J. L. Newcomb, President, be and is hereby authorized
and empowered to execute the original copy of said deed in the name and on behalf of
The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, and E. I. Carruthers,
Secretary of this Board, is hereby authorized and empowered to affix the corporate
seal of the University to the original copy of said deed, and to deliver said deed
on behalf of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, to the State
Highway Department. It is understood, however, that this deed shall not be so
executed and delivered on behalf of the University until after it has been executed
by Little Stony Game and Fish Preserve, Inc.