Chap. 568.—An ACT to validate the bequest and devise made by Gideon Koiner,
of Shenandoah county, to Dr. W. P. Crickenburger, Rev. J. 8. Koiner, Newton
G. Moore, D. F. Kagey, and C. W. Bennick, trustees, for the use and benefit of
Emanuel E\ rangelical Lutheran church, a religious congregation worshipping in
the town of New Market, Shenandoah county, Virginia.

Approved February 28, 1598.

Whereas Gideon Koiner, of Shenandoah county and state of Virginia,
who died on the twenty-ninth day of December, eighteen hundred and
ninety-seven, did direct in his last will, which bears date on the twentieth
day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and has been probated
and is of record in the clerk’s oftice of the county court of Shenandoah
county, that, upon the death of his wife, Rebecca M. Koiner, all of his
real and personal property be sold and the proceeds arising from such
sale be paid over to Doctor W. P. Crickenburger, Reverend J. S. Koiner,
Newton G. Moore, D. F. Kagey, and C. W. Bennick, in trust for the use
and benefit of Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran church, a religious con-
eregation worshipping in the town of New Market in said county and
state: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the devise
and bequest in the will of the said Gideon Koiner, deceased, to the said
Doctor W. P. Crickenburger, Reverend J. S. Koiner, Newton G. Moore,
D. F. Kagey, and C. W. Bennick, in trust for the use and benefit of the
said Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran church, a religious congregation
worshipping in the town of New Market in Shenandoah county and state
of Virginia shall be valid.

2. And the said trustees are empowered and authorized to fill any
vacancies that may occur in their number, and in the event they should
fail to choose or elect persons to fill any vacancies that may occur, then
the county court of said county, upon motion of one or more members
of the said church, shall appoint persons to fill such vacancies.

3. And the said trustees and their successors are authorized and em-
powered to do all acts and things necessary for the carrying out of the
provisions of the will of the said Gideon Koiner, deceased, so far as the
same relates to the devise and bequest made to the church aforesaid, and
shall have the right to bring and defend suits in the courts of this com-
monwealth.

4, This act shall be in force from its passage.