Chap. 289.—An ACT to authorize M. M. Lynch, substituted trustee, to convey
‘certain property in the city of Winchester, which was devised for the benefit
of the Catholic church by John Burns, deceased.

Approved February 11, 1896.

Whereas John Burns, deceased, lately a citizen of the city of Win-
chester, Virginia, did by his last will, dated January tenth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one, and recorded in the clerk’s office of the
county court for Frederick county, Virginia, devise certain realty
situate in said city in trust to John McGill, bishop of Richmond,
trustee for the Roman Catholic church in said city; and

Whereas said trustee having died, and by due process Maurice M.
Lynch hath heen appointed substituted trustee in his stead by an
order of the county court aforesaid, and as such now holds said
realty—

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That said
devise is hereby declared valid, and that said substituted trustee do
hold the said realty in fee simple upon the trusts and for the pur-
poses specified and enjoined by the said will, and the state of Vir-
ginia doth hereby release all rights, if any it has, to the said realty,
and the said substituted trustee shall hold the said property in trust
for the congregation of the Roman Catholic church of the Sacred
Heart in said city, with full power to sell and convey the same and
administer the fund arising therefrom according to the provisions of
said will.

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