CHAP. 315.—An ACT to authorize the sale of Cypress church and lot, in
Surry county. (H. B. 427.)

Approved March 20, 1916.

Whereas, it is represented to the general assembly that the
property mentioned in an act of the general assembly of Vir-
ginia, entitled an act for the sale of Cypress church, in Surry
county, and which was approved on the sixth day of February,
eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, was, under the provisions
of the said act, granted and conveyed unto Acrell Savedge and
others. trustees, to be held by them and their successors for usé
as a place of public worship for the benefit of the congregation
of Methodist Episcopal church, south, worshipping at Mooring’
church in Surry county, by a deed dated on the second day of
September, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and now of
record in the office of the clerk of Surry county in deed book
number sixteen, at page seven hundred and twenty-eight; and
that the aforesaid congregation has not made use of the saic
property for many years, and that the same is abandoned prop
erty; and that there is great need by the citizens living in the
neighborhood of the said property for land for use as a public
burying ground for the dead bodies of white people; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be lawful for the grantees in the aforesaid: deed, or their
successors in office, or the members of the said congregation who
are now living, to make sale of the aforesaid land to any person,
association, or corporation, following a decree of the circuit court
of Surry county pronounced in proceedings properly instituted
under section fourteen hundred and six of the Code of Virginia
and acts amendatory thereof.

2. The purchaser of the said land, under this act and the
decree mentioned, and the heirs or successors or assigns of such
purchaser, shall take and use the said land for use as a public
burying ground for the dead bodies of white people, and for no
other purpose, under penalty of reversion.

3. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from
its passage.