Sale of Property From Southwestern Louisiana Land Co. to M.E. Church South Long Point
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Cash
Sale of Property
From
Southwestern Louisiana Land Co.
to
M.E. Church South Long Point
Raymond T. Clark
Clerk of Court, Ex-Officio Recorder and Notary Public, Parish of Acadia
Filed Aug 5th 1892
Recorded Same Day
In Conveyance Book H
at pages 234 and 235
D.B. Hayes, Dy. Clerk
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STATE OF LOUISIANA, 
PARISH OF ACADIA
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Be it known, That on this twenty-third day of the month of April in the year 
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety two.
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Before me, Raymond T. Clark, Clerk of Court, Ex-Officio Recorder, and 
Notary Public, duly commissioned and sworn in for the Parish of Acadia, 
State of Louisiana, and in the presence of the witnesses hereinafter 
named and undersigned, Personally apppeared:
THE SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA LAND COMPANY, a body corporate, 
duly created and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of 
Louisiana, domiciliated in the town of Opelousas, St. Landy Parish, State of Louisiana, 
herein represented by its General Manager, William W. Duson, a resident of 
Crowley, Acadia Parish, Louisiana, who declared that for the consideration and 
on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, it does by these presents 
grant, bargain, sell, assign, convey, set over, and deliver with all legal 
warranties, unto Isaac Hayes, George P. Abney, Henry A. Abney, William A. 
Higginbotham and Jefferson Murphy all residents of the Parish of Acadia 
State of Louisiana and who are acting herein as a board Trustees of Long 
Point Church of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, situated in said Parish 
of Acadia State of Louisiana duly appointed and authorized to act as such John 
A Miller Presiding Elder of said Circuit of said Methodist Church and which 
appointment was duly approved by the quarter conference of the Crowley 
Circuit in the Opelousas District of Louisianawhere present, purchasing and 
accepting for themselves as a Board of Trustees and for our successors in 
office and assigns, and acknowledging delivery and possession thereof, the 
following described property, to-wit:

    A certain tract or parcel of land situated in the Parish of Acadia State of 
    Louisiana and described as Beginning the South East corner of the North 
    West quarter of the South quarter of Section Thirty (30) in Township Eight (8) 
    South of Range One (1) East and running thence West in South line of said 
    North West quarter of South West quarter Eight Chains, thence North Five (5) 
    Chains, thence East Eight (8) Chains to the East line of the North West 
    quarter of the West quarter of sais Section Thirty (30).  Thence South to said 
    line Five (5) Chains to the place of beginning and containing four acres.

     To have and to Hold the said property unto the said purchasers their successors and 
     assigns forever.  And the said vendor moreover transfers unto the said purchasers all 
     the rights and actions of warranty to which vendor is or may be entitled against all former 
     owners and proprietors of the property herein conveyed subrogating the said purchasers 
     to the said rights and actions to be by them enjoyed and exercised in the above manner 
     as they might have been by the present vendors.
     This sale is made and accepted for an in consideration of the price and sum of One 
     dollar <$1.00> in Cash, Current Money, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged and 
     full aquittance and discharge granted therefor and the further consideration that said 
     property shall be held in trust that said premises should be used kept maintained and 
     disposed of as a place of divine worship for the use of the ministry and membership of 
     the Methodist Episcopal Church South; and as burying ground for said Church subject 
     to the discipline usage and ministerial appointments of said Church as from time to time 
     authorized and declared by the General Conference of said __ and the Annual 
     Conference within whose bounds the said premises also situate.
     Contracting parties release me, Notary, from the production of the Certificate of 
     Mortgage as required by law.  The taxes all paid.

     Done and Passed, in the Parish of Acadia, the day, month and year first before 
     written, in presence of Charles L. Crippen and James E. Barry lawful witnesses, 
     residing in this Parish, who have signed with the appearers and me, Notary, after 
     reading the whole.

          	WITNESSES:			(Signed):  W.W. Duson, Manager
	(Signed) C.L. Crippen			Isaac Hayes
	J.E. Barry					G.P. Abney
						Henry A. Abney
						Jefferson Murphy (X his mark)
						W.A. Higginbotham
						R.T. Clark, Clerk of Court