Chap. 218.—An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Court-street Bap-
tist church, Portsmouth, Virginia, to scl] certain real estate held by
them for the benetit of said church.

Approved March 12, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Richard
Cox, William Brooks, KE. C. Brooks, W. F. Iigginbottom,
William D. Robertson, and M. M. Anderson, or their legal
successors, trustees of the Court-street Baptist church, in
the city of Portsmouth, be authorized and empowered to
sell, either at private sale or by public auction, the certain
lot, piece, or parcel of land which was conveyed them by
James T. Borum and wife and others by deed, dated August
twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and duly
recorded in the clerk’s office of the court of hustings for the
city of Portsmouth, situate on the south side of London
street in said city, and bounded as follows: Beginning ninety
feet from the corner of Court and London streets, and run-
ning south fifty-six feet six inches to the line of James W.
Brown; thence along the line of James W. Browne, thirty
feet to the line of Mistress Caroline A. Williamson; thence
along the line of Mistress Caroline A. Williamson on the
east, fifty-six feet six inches, to the line of London street;
thence along said street, thirty feet to the beginning; and to
make and execute a good, proper, and legal conveyance of
the same to the purchaser or purebasers thereof, the proceeds
of said sale to be held in trust for or expended for the benefit
of the said Court-street Baptist church.

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