CHAPTER 608

An Act to authorize the State Library Board to erect a certain historical
marker and to appropriate funds therefor. ;
H 732

Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. The State Library Board is hereby directed to erect an historical
marker near the site of Trinity Church, in Staunton, Virginia. Suck
marker shall bear substantially the following words and phrases:

TRINITY CHURCH

Known as Augusta Parish Church, it was founded in 1746 as
the County Parish, when Augusta County extended from the
Blue Ridge Mountains to the Mississippi River and the Great
Lakes. The name Trinity was assumed in 1833. In 1781 the Gen-
eral Assembly held extended sessions here, and the Virginia Theo-
logical Seminary used the present building during the War
Between the States. The first Bishop of Virginia, James Madison,
was a member of this church.

2. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund of the State

treasury to the State Library Board the sum of three hundred dollars tc

be expended for the purposes of this act.