Chap. 178.—An ACT in relation to the sale of certain Church Property
in Norfolk County.

Approved March 20, 1877.

1. Be it enacte! by the general assembly, That the surviv-
ing trustees, in a deed from Guilford Harrison and Deborah,
his wife, to Jacob Shuster and others, bearing date the thir-
teth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-
one, of record in the clerk’s office of the county of Norfolk,
whereby certain property was conveyed for the benefit of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south, be authorized and em-
powered to sell the said property, so conveyed, consisting of
an balf acre of land, more or less, in the said county of Nor-
folk, lying on the road leading from Norfolk city into Prin-
cess Anne county, and extending along said road from the
point where it is intersected by Irving’s road, to the line
of the farm. (then) owned by Joseph P. Allyn; and to make
conveyance of the same to the purchaser or purchasers
thereof: provided, tbat the euid sale be to some person or per-
sons who shall bold the said property to be used for religious
purposes, and that the proceeds of such sale shall be paid by
the said trustees, or trustee making the same, over to the
quarterly conference of East Norfolk circuit of the said Me-
thodist Episcopal church, south, held at Denby’s church in
said circuit, next after the receipt of the said procecds.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.