Chap. 333.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide
under certain conditions for the conveyance of real property occupied by a
church, approved February 12, 1918. {(H B 147]

Approved March 20, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to provide under certain conditions for the conveyance
of real property occupied by a church, approved February twelfth, nine-
teen hundred and eighteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 1. Whenever any church in this State has been in the un-
disputed possession, for a period of twenty-five years or more, of any
real estate, and for which there is no deed of record, the trustees of said
church, after giving notice once a week for four successive weeks in
some newspaper published in, or having general circulation in, the
county or city in which such real estate is, may file a petition in the cir-
cuit court of such county, or any court of record of such city, duly
sworn to, which petition shall set forth the fact that the real estate
mentioned therein has been in the undisputed possession of such church
for a period of twenty-five years or more and shall give the true bounda-
ries of such real estate. Upon the hearing of such petition, if the court
shall be satisfied that the real estate mentioned has been in the undis-
puted possession of such church for a period of twenty-five years or
more; that the boundaries mentioned in the said petition are the true
boundaries of such real estate; that the trustees who file such petition
are the duly appointed trustees of such church, it may appoint a special
commissioner to make conveyance of such real estate to the trustees of
said church, with covenant of special warranty; provided such real es-
tate so acquired shall not increase the holdings of such trustees in the
aggregate at any one time to more than two acres of land in a city or
town, nor more than seventy-five acres out of a city or town.