Chapter XLVII. *to authorize the Trustees of the Foundry (Methodist Episcopal) Church to sell and convey Square Number two hundred and thirty-five in the City of Washington.* Feb. 18, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * The truste
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CHAP. XLVII.— An Act *to authorize the Trustees of the Foundry (Methodist Episcopal) Church to sell and convey Square Number two hundred and thirty-five in the City of Washington.* Feb. 18, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * The trustees of the Foundry Church, in Washington, D. C. may sell and convey square numbered two hundred and thirty-five in that city, free of any trust, &c. That Presley Simpson, James W.
Barker, Edward Owen, David A. Gardner, Nathaniel Mullikin, William J. Sibley, Daniel D. T. Leech, Edward F. Simpson, and Richard T. Morsell, trustees of the Foundry (Methodist Episcopal) Church, in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to sell and convey a certain square of ground in said city, known and distinguished on the ground plan thereof as square numbered two hundred and thirty-five, now held by said trustees in trust for said church, and lately used, in part, as a burial-ground, free and discharged of and from any trust, express or implied, now existing, or which may hereafter, before the execution of a conveyance of said square, exist, in said trustees, or their successors, whether by virtue of the deed originally conveying the same to the trustees of said church, or by virtue of any deed or deeds, certificate or certificates, or any writing or writings whatever, by said trustees or their predecessors, conveying any lot or lots, site or sites, in the part of said square used as a burial-ground as aforesaid, and free and discharged of and from any and every right, title, and interest, legal and equitable, now existing in any lot-holder in said burial-ground, under any The dead interred in that ground to be removed and placed in some public cemetery, &c.contract with said trustees or their predecessors: *Provided, however,* That the said trustees or their successors shall, out of the proceeds of such sale, remove or cause to be removed the dead that are now interred in said ground, and give them decent sepulture in some public cemetery outside the corporate limits of the city of Washington.
Approved, February 18, 1867.