Chap. 164.—An ACT to validate certain deeds in the clerk’s office of Southampton
county court made to trustees of Black Creek Baptist Church.

Approved March 12, 1902.

Whereas, the board of supervisors of Southampton county, by two cer-
tain deeds recorded, respectively, in deed book number thirty-seven, on
page sixty, and deed book number forty, on page three hundred and
fifty-one, in the clerk’s office of Southampton county, for certain consid-
erations mentioned in said deeds, did convey certain lands to the deacons
and trustees of Black Creek Baptist Church in said county; and,

Whereas, at the time of the conveyance aforesaid no trustees had been
appointed for the said church as provided by law; and,

Whereas, it does not clearly appear from the records that the sale by
said board of supervisors of a part and parcel of the land conveyed in one
of the said deeds was ratified by the court as provided by law: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the said
deeds shall be held valid and effective, and the property therein con-
veyed shall vest in the duly and legally appointed trustees for the said
Black Creek Baptist Church for the purpose and uses of the said church.

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