Chap. 640.—An ACT to vest the title of a certain iot of land, containing one
acre, more or less, in King George county, in trustees for the use and benefit
of Fletcher’s chapel, Methodist Episcopal church, south.

Approved March 8, 1896.

Whereas James G. Taliaferro and E. A. S. Taliaferro, his wife,
granted and conveyed by deed, dated February twenty-second,
eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to Stephen P. Bowen, Lewis Cross,
Mortimer Bainbridge, and William Jenkins, trustees for the Metho-
dist, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Episcopal churches, a lot of land,
containing one acre, more or less, 1n the upper part of King George
county; and

Whereas a house of worship was erected upon said lot by the
Fletcher’s chapel, Methodist Episcopal church, south, and used ex-
clusively by it until the said house was destroyed by fire during the
war between the states; and
Whereas the said Methodist church erected another house of wor-
ship by the said lot and has used and occupied said lot as a church-
yard and for other purposes, and it appearing that the said Metho-
dist church has had exclusive, continuous, and adverse possession,
use, and control of said lot for about forty years—no other denom-
ination ever claiming the same, or any part thereof, and that it is of
little or no value to any denomination except the said Methodist
church; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
title to the said lot of land, situated in King George county, now ad-
joining the land on which stands the present house of worship of the
aforesaid church and the land of the late Robert Gravatt and the
main road leading from Fredericksburg to Hamstead, be, and the
same is hereby, vested in William L. Pratt, Ferdinand S. Pratt,
William S. Brown, George W. Grigsby, John T. Minor, James L.
Henderson, and William J. McCarty, trustees, and their successors
in office, for the use and benefit of Fletcher’s chapel, Methodist
Episcopal church, south, King George circuit, Virginia, annual con-
ference, Rappahannock district.

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