Chap. 28.—An ACT to Confirm the Title of Alexander Coke to Certain
Land in Princess Anne county.

Approved January 26, 1876.

Whereas, H. B. Woodhouse, J. H. James and John J. Bur-
roughs, trustees of the parsonage for the Princess Anne cir-
cuit of the Methodist Protestant church, by and with the
consent of the quarterly conference of said church, did on
the nineteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,
in order to secure to J. J. Burroughs the payment of the sum
of seven hundred and seventy-one dollars and ninety-four
cents, convey to W. M. Bonney, as trustee, that certain tract
of land in Princess Anne county, near Olive Branch church,
containing thirty acres, more or less, and being the same
tract of land which said Woodhouse, James, and Burroughs,
as trustees aforesaid, purchased of Tully Brown and Amy
his wife, by deed bearing date nineteenth day of January,
eighteen hundred and fifty-eight. And whereas the said W.
M. Bonney, on the third of August, cighteen hundred and
sixty-eight, at the request of said J. J. Burroughs, did ex-
pose said tract of land for sale at public auction, as directed
by said trust deed, when the said J. J. Burroughs became
the purchaser at eight hundred and twenty-five. dollars, as
evidenced by the deed from W. M. Bonney, trustee, to J. J.
Burroughs, dated August the fourteenth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-eight, and which said tract of land the said J. J.
Burroughs, on the third day of November, eighteen hundred
and seventy-one, conveyed to Alexander Coke by deed of
bargain and sale; and whereas, doubts exist as to the title
conveyed by said deeds, owing to a want of authority on the
part of the said H. B. Woodhouse, J. H. James and John J.
Burroughs, as trustees aforesaid, to execute the trust deed
dated April the nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,
as aforesaid: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the deed of trust from Woodhouse, James and Burroughs, as
trustees aforesaid, to W. M. Bonney, dated the nineteenth of
April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; the deed of bargain
and sale from said Bonney as trustee to J. J. Burroughs,
dated August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight;
and the deed of bargain and sale from said John J. Burroughs
to said Alexander Coke, dated the third day of November, in
the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be declared legal
and binding upon the parties thereto, and all parties claim-
ing under, by, or through them.

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