Chap. 148.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section four of the act en-
titled an act to Establish and Incorporate The Augusta County Fair,
passed January fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the name
of which has been changed by act of assembly to the Baldwin Augusta
Fair.

Approved March 17, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
four of the act entitled an act to establish and incorporate
the Augusta county fair, passed January fifteenth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

§4. Elections for directors, by the corporators, shall be
held at the regular annual fair. The voting shall be viva
voce, and a plurality of votes shall elect in any case. In all
other respects the elections shall be conducted, certified, and
determined as the rules shall prescribe: provided, that va-
cancies occurring in the directory, in the interval between
the annual meetings, shall be supplied by the directory, and
the directors so appointed shall continue in office until the
next ensuing annual meeting of the corporators.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.
Chap. 148.—An ACT to authorize the Trustees of Wesley Chapel of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Petersburg, to Borrow Money
and Execute a Deed to Secure the Payment of the same, or to Sell
the Property held by them.

Approved March 17, 1876.

It being represented to the general assembly that the
church building, known as Wesley chapel of the Methodist
Episcopal church South, in the city of Petersburg, is too small
to accommodate the congregation now worshipping there; and
that the said congregation is desirous of enlarging the same,
or of. building a new house in some more eligible place; there-
fore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful for the board of trustees of Wesley chapel of the
Methodist Episcopal church South, in Petersburg, by and
with the consent of the quarterly conference of the said
Wesley chapel, to borrow a sum of money, not to exceed two
thousand dollars, and at a rate of interest not to exceed eight
per centum, for the purpose of enlarging said house of worship,
and to execute a deed of trust upon the said property now
held by them as trustees, to secure the payment of the money
so borrowed; or it shall be lawful for the said board of trus-
tees, whenever so directed by the quarterly conference of said
Wesley chapel, to sell the said property known as Wesley
chapel, and to convey the same by proper deed to the pur-
chaser or purchasers thereof, and to apply the proceeds arising
from such sale to the erection of a new house of worship for
the use of said congregation, under the direction of the prop-

erly constituted authorities thereof.
_ 2. This act shall begin force from its passage.