CHAP. 590.—An ACT to confirm and legalize a deed made by the
trustees of the M. E. church, south, to the Surry lumber com-
pany.

Approved March 2, 1892.

Whereas the said Surry lumber company, by its deed
dated August twenty-six, eighteen hundred and eighty-
nine, and of record in the clerk’s office of Surry county
court, in deed-book twenty-three, page six hundred and
eighty-nine, did convey to the said A.G. Higgins, John N.
Ramey, J. §. Avery, Joseph T. Price and George W. Dick-
erson, trustees for the Methodist Episcopal church, south,
as a donation for the purpose of erecting thereon a house
of public worship for the use of the ministry and member-
ship of the said church, a certain lot of Jand one hundred
and fifty-three feet wide by one hundred and ninety-five
feet long, and fully described and bounded in said deed;
and whereas the first quarterly conference for Surry cir-
cuit, Suffolk district annual conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south (that being the legally constitu-
ted body having charge of the churches within its bounds
and authority to establish new churches, and with power
to act in the premises), at its meeting on the fourteenth
day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, by a
resolution adopted by that body and entered on the min-
utes of the proceedings of the said conference, refused to
accept the said lot of land so donated by the said Surry
lumber company, or to build a church at said village of
Dendron, and relinquish all claim to said lot under said
deed, and directed the said trustees and specially author-
ized them to re-convey said lot of land to the said Surry
lumber company; and whereas the said trustees, in pur-
suance of said resolution and direction of said conference,
did, by deed dated April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred
and ninety-one, which is of record in the clerk’s office
aforesaid, in deed-book twenty-four, page six hundred and
eleven, grant and ro-convey said lot of land at Dendron to
the Surry lumber company, to be held by it in the same
manner as it was before the conveyance by said company
to the said trustees; and whereas a doubt has arisen as to
whether said trustees could legally re-convey said land to
said company; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the hereinbefore recited deed made by A. G. Higgins,
John N. Ramey, J. S. Avery, Joseph T. Price, and George
W. Dickerson, trustees for the Methodist Episcopal church,
south, to the Surry lumber company, dated on said twenty-
fourth day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and
recorded as aforesaid, whereby the said lot of land at Den-
dron, Surry county, Virginia, was granted and reconveyed
to said Surry lumber company, be, and the same is hereby,
validated, confirmed, and legalized, and that the fee
simple title to said lot of land rest in the said Surry lum-
ber company in the same manner as before the execution
by said company of the deed to said trustees therefor,
bearing date August twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-one.

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