§61‑6. House on vacant land vests title.
All houses and edificeserected for public religious worship on vacant lands, or on lands of the Statenot for other purposes intended or appropriated, together with two acresadjoining the same, shall hereafter be held and kept sacred for divine worship,to and for the use of the society by which the same was originally established.(1778, c. 132, s. 6; R.C., c. 97, s. 2; Code, s. 3666; Rev., s. 2674;C.S., s. 3572.)