The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-05-28
April 8. 1857.
mo. 11o. AN ACT.
In relation to Conveyances and Devises
of Property, for Religious purposes.

III reiation 10 ConveyanceS and DevlSeS
of Property, for Religious purposes.
SECTION 1. Be itenacted By tie General
assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That
no grant, conveyance, devise, or lease of
personal or real estate to, nor any trust
of such personal or real estate, for the
benefit of any person and his successor or
successors, in any ecclesiastical Office,
shall vest any estate or interest in such
person, or in bis successor; and no such
grant, conveyance, devise, or lease to, or
for any such person by the designation of
any such Office. shall vest any estate or
interest in any successor of such person:
Provided, that this section shall not be
deemed to admit the validity of any such
grant, conveyance, devise, or lease here
tofore made.
SEQ. 2. No future grant. conveyance,
devise, or lease of any real lestate consecra-
ted, dedicated, or appropriated. orinten-
ded to be eonsecrated, dedicated. or ap-
propriated to the purposes ofreligious wor
ship, or for the use of any congregation
or society. or cemetery coanected there
with, shall vest any right, title or interest
in any person or persons to whom such
grant, conveyance, devise or lease may be
made, unless the same shall be made to
a corporation organized according to the
provisions of the ''act to provide for the
creation and regulation of incorporated
companies in the State of Ohio,'' passed
May 1 1852, or to some other corporation
organized according to some other law OF
the State of Ohio.
Sec. 3. Any real estate, ofthe descrip-
ton named in the second section of this
act, and which has been heretofore gran.
ted, devised or rdemised to any person OF
persons in any ecclesiastical Office, or or
ders, or by the designation of such office,
or orders, or otherwise, shall be deemed
to be held in trust for the benefit of the
congregation or society using the same,
and shall, unless previously conveyed to
corporation, as provided in section two
of this act, upon the death of the person
or persons in whom the legal title shall be
vested atthe time of the passage of this
act, vest in the religious corporation form.
ed by the congregation or religious socie-
ty occupying and enjoying such real es
tate as aforesaid: Provided, such corpo-
ration, organized according to the laws
of this State shall be in existence at the
time of the decease of the person hold
ing the title thereto.
Sec. A. If>uch congregation shall no
be incorporated as aforesaid, then and il
that case, the title Of such real estate shal
vest in the State of Ohio, in the. same
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person holding the same had died intes
tate, without heirs capable of inheritine
such real estate.
Sec s. Whenever title to any rea
estate shall vest in the State of Ohio, un
der the provisions of this act, it shall b.
the duty ofthe Governor of State, ane
he is hereby authorized, upon being sat
isfed that the congregation or society
which had used, occupied, or enjoyed sucl
real estate, for the purposes aforesaid
prior to the death Of the person or persons
on whose deeease the title thereto vestet
in the State, has been duly incorporated
under and according to the provisions o
any law of tne State of Ohio which may
then be in force for the incorporation, o
religious societies. and upon the produc
tion to him of certified copy of the re
cord of the certificate of incorporation, b.
the recorder of the county in whose officl
the said certificate shall be filed, to con
vey such real estate, and all the right. ii
tie and interest of the State, therein an,
thereto, to said corporation, which shal
thereupon be vested with all the right
title and interest which shall havo h.ccr,
vested in the Stately virtue of the pre-
visions of this act.
SEC. 6. This act shall take effect O
the passage thereof.
N. II. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker Of the House of Representative,
THOMAS H. FORD,
President Of the Senat,
April IA, 1857.