Chap. 19.—An ACT to authorize the Northampton county court to
pay to George T. Turner and others, trustees of Trinity church, the
damages assessed them, on the petition of the New York, Phila-
delphia, and Norfolk railroad company to acquire the real estate of
said church for the use of said company.

Approved January 18, 1888.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That |
George T. Turner, James K. Savage, James W. Mears, Aris ;
C. Brown, John Eichelburger, Torobabel Willis, and William
G. Costin, trustees of Trinity church of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, south, situated near Hadlock, Northampton
county, Virginia, be authorized and empowered to receive
the damages assessed as due them on the petition of the
New York, Philadelphia, and Norfolk railroad company
against them, it being damages for the taking of the land of
said church, the title of which was in said trustees for the
use of said railroad company, which damages, amounting to
three hundred dollars, are now under the control of the
Northampton county court, which court refuses to pay over
said damages to said trustees on the ground of lack of au-
thority, and have placed said funds in bank, and said court is |
authorized to pay over said damages to said trustees.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage. (