Chap. 49.—AN ACT to authorize the County Court of Bedford County to
order the Sale of certain Lands in said County, and apply the proceeds
thereof to the completion of a Church.

Approved January 27, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful for the county court of Bedford county (or the judge
thereof in vacation), upon the bill or petition of Wm. G.
McGhee, Wm. P. Morris, James W. Smith and Walker Gil-
mer, surviving trustees of themselves and Dr. Peachy H.
Gilmer, deceased, (or of any three of them, and their succes-
sors and survivors), to whom, on the eighth day of May, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-one, L. D. Haymond, trustee, con-
veyed a certain lot of land in said county, by deed of record
in the clerk’s office of said court, for the benefit of the Pro-
testant Episcopal church, to order the sale of the said land, on
such terms as may seem proper, and to direct the transfer of
the title and possession thereof: provided, that the net pro-
ceeds of such sale shall be applied to the completion of an
Episcopal church now being erected by John W. Lowry and
others, trustees, on land donated to them for that purpose by
John A. Lee and wife, and others, near Timberridge Baptist
church in said county.
2. This act shail be in force from its passage.

Chap. 50 —JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Payment of Interest
on the Bonds of the State Purchased with the Agricultural Land Scrip.

Approved January 27, 1873.

1. Resolved by the house of delegates (the senate concur-
ring), That the Anditor of Public Accounts be, and he is hereby
authorized and directed to pay the interest due up to the first
of the present month on the bonds of the State purchased by
the Board of Education, so far as the sazne is due and payable
to said Board of Education, with the proceeds derived from
the sale of the Concressional Land Scrip, the same as is paid
to other colleges under the act of March twentieth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-two: provided, that the sum so paid shall
not exceed one year’s interest on the whole amount of such
bonds.