Chap. 738.—An ACT to authorize the trustees to sell the Boring’s chapel church
property in Lee county.

Approved March 4, 1896.

Whereas the Boring’s chapel congregation of the Methodist Episco-
oa] church, south, in Lee county, Virginia, has become almost
»xtinct; and

Whereas the church property belonging to said congregation
<nown as Boring’s chapel, is not used any longer by said congrega-
-lon; and

Whereas it is desirable that some other denomination or person
pecome the owner of said property; and

Whereas Arthur C. Ely and John McClure are the only two surviv-
ing trustees of said church property; and

Whereas there is being built a Methodist Episcopal church, south,
congregation at Beech Spring in said county, known as Ely’s chapel ;
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
said trustees are hereby authorized and empowered to sell the said
Boring’s chapel church (consisting of the meeting-house and the land
belonging thereto) to any other religious denomination or other per-
son, to be held, kept, and used by them or him as to them may seem
proper, and to make a proper deed conveying the same to the pur-
chaser, and shall pay over the net proceeds of such sale to the trus-
tees of the church property of Ely’s chapel congregation at Beech
Spring, to be used for the benefit of said last mentioned congre-
gation.

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