Chap. 150.—An ACT to confirm and quict the title of John Elson and those
claiming under him in the lot of land fronting forty-two feet by one hundred
and thirty seven feet, more or less, at the northwest corner of Broad and Third
streets, in the city of Richmond, Virginia.

Approved January 29, 1898.

Whereas the said John Elson, in July, eighteen hundred and twenty-
two, acquired the ownership of the aforesaid property through A. Dill,
Who had theretofore, in April of the same year, purchased the same
from the commonwealth; and

Whereas it appears that the said John Elson paid in full for the said
property, and the amount of the purchase price thereof, one thousand
one hundred and cighteen dollars, was regularly paid into the state
treasury; and

Whereas, although the said John Elson and those claiming under him
have held and occupied the said) property from the date of the said
purchase to the present time, it does nct appear certainly that they ever
acquired a proper grant from the commonwealth for said property, and
if the same was ever so acquired, that it has been lost and the record
thereof destroved by fire at the conflagration in the city of Richmond
in eighteen hundred and sixty-five, in which many of the public records
were burned; and

Whereas a cloud has been cast upon the title to the property aforesaid
by reason of the circumstances aforesaid: therefore

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the title
to the aforesaid lot of land, namely: the lot at the northwest intersec-
tion of Broad and Third streets, in the city of Richmond, fronting on
suid Broad street forty-two-feet, more or less, and extending north-
ward]ly along the western line of Third street one hundred and _ thirty-
seven feet, more or less, thence at right angles westwardly forty-two
feet, more or less, and thence southwardly and parallel with Third street
one hundred and thirty seven feet, more or less, to the north line of
Broad street, be, and the same is hereby, quicted and in all respects con-
firmed in the said John Elson and those holding under him as fully and
perfectly as if a grant from the commonwealth of Virginia had been
duly executed to the aid John Elson in the year eighteen hundred and
twenty-two and recorded at the time.

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