" Whereas the trustees and society of the Presbyterian church ami congregation of the town of Salem, in the County of Westchester, have by their petition to the Legislature, prayed for leave to sell, for the benefit of the said church and congregation, certain lands belonging to the said church and congregation, in the town of Salem aforesaid, thereupon : Be it enacted by the people of the State of New York, represented in Senate aud Assembly, that full pow er, good right, and lawful authority shall be aud hereby is granted to the trustees of the said church and congregation to sell, alien in fee, all right and title belonging to the said church and congregation, vested in them as trustees of and in all such lands, situate, lying and being in the town of Salem, in Westchester County, as they from time to time may deem necessary for the purpose of procuring other lands on which a parsonage house may be more conveutiently erected, and for erecting the same. Provided always that the lands so to be sold by virtue of this act shall not exceed the quantity of fifty acres.*

The following sales were made under this act as appears by the minutes of the Trustees :

"The said Board of Trustees being by law of this State authorized to sell a quantity of land on the old Parsonage not to exceed fifty acres have sold the several quantity's of laud to the persons named aud for the sums annexed to their names :