Chap. 657.—An ACT to confirm and quiet the title of the vestry of Saint Andrew’s
church, in Grammer Parish, in the county of Brunswick, Virginia, to the one
acre of land upon which said church stands in the town of Lawrenceville, in

said county.
Approved March 2, 1898.

Whereas some time in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight,
certain citizens and members of the Protestant Episcopal church in
the county of Brunswick subscribed for the erection of a church
upon a lot of ground containing one acre, which was donated by one of
said subscribers in the town of Lawrenceville, in the county of Bruns-
wick, to be known as Saint Andrew’s church in Saint Andrew’s parish in
said county; and

Whereas at a meeting of the vestry of Saint Andrew’s parish in the
county of Brunswick, held on the fourth day of April, eighteen hun-
dred and twenty-nine, as appears from the record of the proceedings of
the vestry of said parish, Henry Lewis, James B. Clairborne, Robert
Turnbull, Peter J. Turnbull and John E. Shell were appointed a committee
to obtain a deed for the said one acre of land upon which the said church
had been erected; and

Whereas the records of the said parish further show that the said
Saint Andrew’s church was consecrated by Bishop Moore, of the Diocese
of Virginia, on the twenty-fifth day of October, eighteen hundred and
twenty-nine, which under the canons of said church could not have
been done unless a deed had been acquired by the vestry of said parish
for the one acre of land upon which the said church had been so
erected; and

Whereas the said one acre of land was held adversely by the vestry of
the said parish from the time it was donated as aforesaid in eighteen
hundred and twenty-eight down to the twelfth day of June, eighteen
hundred and ninety-seven, when the council of the Diocese of southern
Virginia divided the said Saint Andrew’s parish, and formed a new parish,
known as Grammer parish, in which the said Saint Andrew’s church is
now located; and

Whereas the congregation of said Saint Andrew’s church, which is
the only church in said parish, on the fourteenth day of July, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-seven, held a meeting in accordance with the
canons of said church and elected the following persons vestrymen for
said church, to-wit: J. Ravenscroft Jones, Robert Turnbull, Charles E.
Mav, Robert B. Turnbull, Wood J. Hamlin, Ravenscroft Jones, William
J. May, FE. R. Turnbull and Horace M. Robinson, in whom, under the
canons of said church the title to the said one acre of land is now vested;
and

Whereas it has recently been ascertained that no deed can be found
conveying said one acre of land to the said vestry of Saint Andrew's
parish, and it cannot now be ascertained after this great length of time
which one of said subscribers donated said lot, and consequently no
deed can now be obtained therefor, but the said one acre of land, as ap-
pears from the land books of the county of Brunswick, was entered in
the name of the vestry of Saint Andrew’s church, but exempted from
taxation as church property: therefore,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the title
to the aforesaid one acre of land upon which the said Saint Andrew’s
church now stands, at the corner of Church street and Windsor avenue,
in the town of Law renceville, inthe county of Brunswick, Virginia, and
bounded on the north by the lot of R. B. Davis and A. F. Osborne, on
the east by the lotof A. F. Osborne, on the south by Hicks street, and
on the west by Windsor avenue, and which has been recently fenced
in by the vestry of said Saint Andrew’s church, be, and the same is
hereby, quieted and in all respects confirmed and vested inthe said J.
Ravenscroft Jones, Robert Turnbull, Charles IX. May, Robert B. ‘Turn-
bull, Wood J. Hamlin, Ravenscroft Jones, William J. May, Edward R.
Turnbull and Horace M. Robinson, the persons at this time composing
the vestry of Saint Andrew’s church, and such persons as may be here-
after chosen from time to time, in accordance with the canons of said
church, as their successors, in trust for the use and benefit of said Saint
Andrew’s church in Grammer parish, in the county of Brunswick, Vir-
ginia.

2. This act shall be in force from its pass.e.