Chapter 171. To release a certain limitation existing in an Act of Congress touching the Episcopal Church at Saint Augustine, Florida
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CHAP. 171.— An Act To release a certain limitation existing in an Act of Congress touching the Episcopal Church at Saint Augustine, Florida.July 30, 1894. Whereas in the provisions of section three of the Act of Congress entitled “AnPreamble.Vol. 4, p. 202. Act to provide for the confirmation and settlement of private land claims in east Florida, and for other purposes,” approved February eighth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, it was declared that the lands in Saint Augustine, Florida, relinquished and confirmed to the incorporated Episcopal Church of Saint Augustine should forever inure to the purposes for which they were confirmed, and should not be alienated without the consent of Congress; and Whereas the growth of the city of Saint Augustine, and other physical and social conditions, have rendered the land so relinquished as aforesaid unsuitable for the purposes of the church aforesaid:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*St. Augustine, Fla.Sale of Episcopal Church lot-authorized., That the consent of Congress is hereby given to the said church at Saint Augustine, and to the corporation of The Protestant. Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Florida, and to all other officers and authorities having charge over, or interest in the said land, to sell and convey the same to the purchaser thereof free and discharged from the condition stated in the. provisions of the statute referred to in the preamble of this Act.
And the proper authorities of the said The Protestant Episcopal Church in the. Diocese Use of proceeds.of Florida may use the proceeds of said sale in purchasing another lot in the city of Saint Augustine and erecting a church edifice thereon for the use and benefit of the church organization to which the old Episcopal Church lot was relinquished and confirmed by the Act of Congress hereinbefore mentioned. Approved, July 30, 1894.