Chap. 12.—An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Methodist Episco-
copal Church, South, in the city of Manchester, to sell and purchase
property and to borrow money. :

Approved January 14, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in the
city of Manchester, are hereby authorized to sell any real
estate heretofore conveyed.to them or their predecessors, or
which may hereafter be conveyed to them or their succes-
sors, as trustees for said church, and to reinvest the proceeds
of such sale in other property; and such property shall be
held upon the same trusts and for the same purposes and
uses as the property sold was held upon.

2. Said trustees or their successors shall have power to
borrow money and execute deeds of trust on any property
held by them in trust, and to secure the same at a rate of
interest not exceeding ten per centum per annum.

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