Craven County, NC - Newbern Academy - Act For Property, 1827

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An Act to authorise the treasury of public buildings for the county
of Craven to convey certain property to the trustees of the Newbern
Academy, and to receive from said trustees, and hold in trust for
said county, certain property

Whereas it has been comtemplated by the Court of Pleas and Quarter
Sessions in and for the county of Craven to exchange part of a lot
in the town of Newbern, known in the plan of said town by the
number two hundred and forty-eight, with the trustees of the Newbern
Academy for a part of a lot in said town, the property of trustees,
known in the plan of said town by number two hundred and forty-nine;
and whereas the lot known by the number two hundred and forty-eight, 
was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty
conveyed to John Stankey, Edward Griffith and Jeremiah Vail, as
commissioners of public buildings, in trust for the public; and
whereas the said John Stankey, Edward Griffith and Jeremiah Vail
are dead, and there is no person to execute a conveyance: therefore,
to carry into effect said contemplated exchange,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, 
and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the
treasurer of public buildings for the county of Craven, be, and he
is hereby authorised and empowered to convey, and by deed executed
by him to give a good and sufficient title to the trustees of the
Newbern Academy of that part of the lot in the town of Newbern,
known in the plan of said town by number two hundred and forty-eight,
as was contemplated to be exchanged as aforesaid; and that the said
treasurer of public buildings be, and he is hereby authorised and
empowered to receive and take in trust for the county of Craven, such
part of the lot in the town of Newbern, known in the plan of said
town by number two hundred and forty-nine, as the trustees of the
Newbern Academy may, in execution of said comtemplated exchange,
convey to him; and that the said treasurer of public buildings and
his successors in office hold the same in trust for the county of
Craven; any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.


Source:
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1827
Chapter LXXXII
Page 62

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