 | Board of Visitors minutes June 24, 1944 |  |
MRS. MAZYCK WILSON SHIELDS ESTATE-DIVISION OF FLORIDA LAND WITH V. M. I.
The President stated that he was advised by General Kilbourne, Superintendent of Virginia Military
Institute, that the Special Committee appointed by the Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute on
January 24, 1944, with full authority to lease, partition or sell the Institutes one-half interest in the
tracts of land in Marion County, Florida, devised to the Institute and to the University by the will of
the late, Mrs. Mazyck Wilson Shields of Washington, D. C., has reached the conclusion that it will be well
for the land in question to be divided equally between the University and the Institute. And the Virginia
Military Institute Committee has requested us to make choice of either Tract No. 3 or Tract No. 4, Section
27, Township 16 South, Range 20 East, Marion County, Florida, and of either the Eastern or Western half of
the 40 acre tract, which latter tract the Institute Committee thinks should be divided equally by a line
running North and South through the exact center of the 40 acre tract. The President also stated that
pursuant to instructions given to Mr. W. Allan Perkins by Committee of this Board at a meeting held on the
27th of May, Mr. Perkins had gone to Ocala and made a thorough investigation of the lands in question and
that under date of June 19th Mr. Perkins had filed a report dealing in detail with the value of the property
and the possibility of sale thereon; that Mr. Perkins is further of the opinion that there is absolutely
no difference in value of the tracts 3 and 4 or of the Eastern and Western halves of the 40 acre tract, that
it was, therefore, entirely immaterial which of these properties is selected by the University and which passes
to the Virginia Military Institute.
It was, thereupon, -
RESOLVED, that the University of Virginia hereby selects Tract No. 3, Township 16 and the Eastern
half of said 40 acre tract. And Dr. J. L. Newcomb, President, is hereby authorized and empowered to
Visitors of the University of Virginia will convey all right, title and interest held by it in and to
Tract No. 4, Block 3, Section 27, Township 16 South, Range 20 E. Marion County, Florida, and the
Western half of the SW¼ of the SE¼ of Section 28, Township 16 South, Range 20 E., Marion County, Florida,
the consideration for said conveyance to be the conveyance by Virginia Military Institute to The Rector
and Visitors of the University of Virginia of all of the right, title and interest of said Institute in
and to Tract 3, Block 3, Section 27, Township 16 South, Range 20 E. Marion County, Florida, and the
Eastern one-half of the SW¼ of the SE¼ of Section 28 Township 16 South, Range 20 E. in said Marion
County, Florida, and E. I. Carruthers, Secretary, is hereby authorized to affix the corporate seal to
said deed of partition and to attest the same.
| Board of Visitors minutes June 24, 1944 | |