Chap. 690.—An ACT to confirm and quiet the title of certain property owned
by the trustees of Bethel Baptist church, in Mecklenburg county.

Approved March 2, 1900.

Whereas Bethel Baptist church, of Christiansville magisterial district,
Mecklenburg county, state.of Virginia, has from the minutes of said
Bethel Baptist church, and also from the minutes of the Concord Baptist
association, shows that the said Bethel Baptist church was organized in
the year seventeen hundred and seventy-two; and

Whereas the members of said Bethel Baptist church and its congrega-
tion has had a house of worship on four and ninety-seven one-hundredths
acres of land, on the east side of the Chase City road since its organi-
zation, and adjoining the land of Mary B. Wagstaff and A. G. Jeffries’
estate, and the members and oflicers of said Bethel Baptist church, be-
lieving that there was a deed on record in the clerk’s office of Mecklen-
burg county, to the said four and ninety-seven one-hundredths acres of

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and, and also from the records of the said church, also a plot to said
and having been recorded on the minutes of the said Bethel Baptist
church. Upon an examination by a committee, appointed by the said
s=hurch to examine the records in the clerk’s office of Mecklenburg
county, they reported that no record could be found. Therefore at a
neeting of the members of said Bethel Baptist church, held on the
ixth day of January, nineteen hundred, respectively, petition to the
yeneral assembly of Virginia, to give, grant, confirm, and quiet forever,
the title to the following trustees: A. J. Yancey, W. T. Lawson, J. W.
Garner, W. J. Smith, and W. R. Wilkinson and their successors to the
said four and ninety-seven one-hundredths acres of land, to be held for
the use. of the said Bethel Baptist church; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it doth
sive, grant, confirm, and forever quict the title to the following plot or
parcel of land—to wit:

Beginning at a post oak in Mary B. Wagstaff’s line and running north
sixty-four degrees, west one hundred and sixty-five feet to a hickory;
thence north forty-nine degrees, fifteen minutes, west four hundred
and sixty-seven feet to a stake in old road; thence south thirty-six
degrees, thirty minutes, west four hundred and twenty-seven feet to a
sweet gum in road; thence south seventy-five degrees, east four hundred
and thirty feet to a dead oak; thence south thirty-one degrees, east
one hundred and thirty-nine feet to a post oak; thence south forty-eight
degrees, east one hundred and fifty-four feet to a post oak near spring;
thence north eighteen degrees, east four hundred and seventy-two feet
to beginning, containing four and ninety-seven hundredths acres unto
A. J. Yancey, W. T. Lawson, J. W. Garner, W. J. Smith, and W. R.
Wilkinson, trustees, and their successors, hereafter to be appointed by
the county court of Mecklenburg county, to hold for the use and benefit
of Bethel Baptist church.