Chap. 254.—An ACT to Render Valid a Deed of Conveyance of certain
Property in Rockingham County for the Use of the Lutheran and Ger-
man Reformed Churches.

Approvee March 21, 1872.

Whereas, on the twentieth day of May, seventeen hundred
and sixty-five, Adam Reider and Alexander Painter, by deed,
recorded in the clerk's office of the county court of Augusta,
conveyed to Peter Schol and Michael Neice, and their suc-
cessors in office, a certain tract of land then lying in said
county, and, ascertained by recent survey made by the county
surveyor of Rockingham county, bounded as follows, to wit:
Beginning at a stone in Arehart's line and corner to Henry
Neff’s land at the north corner of the grave-yard ; thence, with
Arehart’s line, 8. 65}, E. 28 poles, crossing the Rader's church
road to a stone in said Arehart’s line, Garber’ 8 corner, and
with his line 8. 144 W. 17 poles, to a stone; thence N. 654,
W. 28 poles, again crossing the Rader's church road to a stone,
Henry Nett’s corner, and with this lne N. 143} E. 17 poles, to
the beginning, and containing two acres, three roods and
twenty-seven poles, which said conveyance was made for the
benefit of the Lutheran and Presbyterian churches, and as a
place for public worship; and whereas, said original trustees
are now long since dead, but the church known as “ Rader's
church,” near Fort Run, in Rockingham county, one mile north-
west of Timberville, in said county, has been used as a place
of public worship by the Lutheran and Reformed congregations
of that place for many years, and it appears by satisfactory
evidence that the “Reformed church” is the “ Presbyterian
church" designated in the said deed of conveyance; and
whereas, doubts have arisen in regard to said conveyance, and
all parties interested are desirous to have said church property
secured and protected for the uses and purposes desired by the
grantors in said deed of conveyance; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the said deed
of conveyance is hereby declared valid, and the title to said
tract of land is hereby vested in and confined to such trustees
and their successors as may have heretofore been, or shall here-
after be, upon the application of the proper authorities of said
Lutheran and Reformed congregations, appointed by the cir-
cuit court of Rockingham county to hold said land for the
uses and purposes of said congregations, in accordance with
the provisions of said deed of conveyance: provided, that three
years shall be allowed to said Presbyterian church to make and
establish its claims to the said property.

2. The provisions of chapter seventy-seven of the Code of
Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty),and of the
various acts amendatory thereof, are hereby made applicable,
so far as they are not inconsistent with its terms, to said deed
of conveyance, and to the holding and enjoyment of the pro-
perty therein conveyed.

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