Chap. 35.—An ACT to make valid the deed to a certain lot of land in the county
of Henrico conveyed by A. J. Vaughan, surviving trustee of himself and
George H. White, trustees for the society known as the Infant sons and
daughters of love, A. J. Vaughan, president, and Henry Allen, secretary of
said society, to James H. Barton, said deed being dated January 4, 1890, and
recorded in the clerk’s office of the county court of Henrico, deed-book
129 B, page 53.

Approved January 15, 1894.

Whereas A. J. Vaughan and Belle, his wife, by their deed, dated
on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and re-
corded in the clerk’s office of the county court of Henrico county in
deed-book one hundred and thirteen, page one, conveyed to A. J.
Vaughan and George H. White, trustees for the society known as the
Infant sons and daughters of love, certain real estate, described in
the said deed as “all that certain lot or parcel of land lying and
being in the county of Henrico, not far from the city of Richmond,
containing one acre, more or less, bounded by the lands belonging to
the estate of the late William A. Robinson, known as the Mitchell
spring property, the Sycamore burying-ground, the lands of G. Kahn’s
estate and of A. D. Williams; being the same real estate which was
conveyed to said Vaughan by Wirt Roberts by his deed, bearing
date on the fourth day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-
four, duly recorded in the clerk’s office of Henrico county court, to
which reference may be had for better description”; said land to be
held by the said trustees and their successors in office as such trus-
tees for the purposes of a burial ground for said Sycamore burial asso-
ciation; and

Whereas the said A. J. Vaughan, surviving trustee of himself and
said George H. White, trustees for the said society known as the
Infant sons and daughters of love, A. J. Vaughan, president, and
Henry Allen, secretary of said society, by their deed, dated on the
fourth day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety, and recorded
in the said clerk’s office of the county court of Henrico county in
deed-book one hundred and twenty-nine B, page fifty-three, conveyed
the said lot of land to James H. Barton, in consideration of the sur
of five hundred dollare, the said lot of land having been abandonec
asa burial ground by the said Sycamore burial association before
any bodies had been buried therein; and

Whereas the said sum of five hundred dollars was paid to the par.
ties entitled thereto; and

Whereas the rights acquired by the said society known as the
Infant sons and daughters of love, and by the said Sycamore buria
association in the said lot of land are, under section fourteen hundred
and sixteen of the code of Virginia, expressly subject to control
modification or revocation by the general assembly: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the deed
executed by A. J. Vaughan, surviving trustee of himself and George
H. White, trustees for the society known as the Infant sons and
daughters of love, A. J. Vaughan, president, and Henry Allen, secre.
tary of said society, executed on the fourth day of January, eih.
teen hundred and ninety, and recorded in the clerk’s office of the
county court of Henrico county, on the sixth day of January, eigh.
teen hundred and ninety, in deed-book one hundred and twenty-nine
B, page fifty-three, purporting to convey unto James H. Barton a
certain lot or parcel of ground lying and being in the county of Hen-
rico, near the northern limits of the city of Richmond, containing
one acre, more or less, being lot number twelve on the plan of the
Mitchell spring property, vested all of the right, title and interest of
the said A. J. Vaughan, surviving trustee of the said society known
as the Infant sons and daughters of love, the said Sycamore burial
association, and of the individual members of said society and asso-
ciation in and to the said lot of ground in the said James H. Barton.

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