Chap. 3.—An ACT to incorporate the Bethel Cemetery Company.

Approved December 15, 1885.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
William L. Padgett, Benoni Wheat, William H. May, William
F. Vincent, and George W. Keys, or any three of them, may
open books of subscription, and when five thousand dollars shall
have been subscribed by them, and such others as may be here-
after associated with them, they shall be a body corporate and
politic, to be known as the ‘“ Bethel Cemetery Company,’ by
which name and style it shall have perpetual succession and a
common seal; may sue and be sued; plead and be impleaded
in all courts; contract and be contracted with, and ordain and
establish by-laws: provided such by-laws be not in conflict with
the laws of this state or the United States.

2. The capital stock of the said company shall not be less

than five thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars,
divided into shares of fifty dollars each, which shall be paid in
cash or instalments, as the by-laws may require; and the per-
sonal liability of each and every stockholder for the debts of
the company shall be limited to the amount unpaid on the
share or shares of stock subscribed for by such stockholder.
All certificates of stock shall be under the seal of the company,
and signed by the president and countersigned by the secretary.
Shares of stock shall be deemed personal property. Each stock-
holder shall have one vote, in person or proxy, in the election
of directors and officers, and at all the meetings of stockholders,
for each share of stock held by him.
_ 8. The officers of said company shall consist of a president,
and secretary, who may likewise be the treasurer, and a board of
three directors; and they shall be elected annually by a majority
of the votes cast, and shall hold their respective offices until
their successors are elected. The annual meeting of the stock-
holders shall be held at such place in the city of Alexan-
dria, and at such time, as may be fixed by the by-laws. The
first annual meeting shall be held on the first Monday in May,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six. Special meetings
of the stockholders may be held at any time by the call of the
president, on giving notice of the time and place of meeting, at
which meetings any business, except the election of officers,
may be transacted that may be done at an annual meeting. A
vacancy in either the office of president or secretary shall be
filled by appointment of the board of directors until the next
ensuing annual meeting.
4. The said company shall have power to acquire, by purchase
or otherwise, and hold land, not to exceed twenty acres, in Fair-
fax county, near the city of Alexandria, to be used for a burial
place or cemetery, and for ‘no other purpose; and may lay off
the same in lots, sub-divisions of lots, for graves, vaults, and
monuments, and may improve and ornament the same; and
may lay out roads and walks therein, and may sell and convey
any lots or sub-divisions of lots on such conditions as may be
prescribed in the by-laws, and the same shall not be subject to
sale by any order of court, except as hereinafter provided, and
shall not be conveyed by the owner out of his amily, except
with the consent of the company. The company may make all
proper rules and regulations for the general management of the
ounds of the cemetery and with regard to the enclosures,
gging of graves, and erection of vaults and monuments, the
manner in which lots and sub-divisions of lots shall be kept,
and the adornment thereof, and may prescribe the penalty fot
the violation of them, and may enforce the same by action at
law or suit in equity. And jurisdiction is hereby conferred
upon the courts of the city of Alexandria to hear and deter-
mine all matters of controversy between a lot-owner and the
company, and for such purpose the said courts’ process may be
executed on a lot-owner, who is a resident of this state in the
county in which he resides, and on a lot-owner who- is a non-
resident of this state by an order of publication, and upon a
judginent in favor of the company in any such action at law or
suit in equity, the lot or sub-division of lot of such person may
be sold to satisfy the same.

5. A survey and plat, showing the walks and roads, and the
number, size and location of lots, of the grounds of the cem-
etery shall be made, and a copy thereof may be filed and
recorded in the clerk’s office of the corporation court of the city
of Alexandria. And no street, lane, road or alley, shall be
made over the land of the said company without its consent, nor
shall the said land be condemned or taken for public use with-
out the consent of the company. |

6. The justices of the peace of the city of Alexandria, and
the corporation court of said city, shall have jurisdiction over
all offences against the laws of this state committed upon the
property and within the grounds of the cemetery of said com-
pany, and all the ordinances of the city council of Alexandria
relating to matters of police shall extend over the said grounds,
and for such purpose the said grounds shall be considered within
the limits of the city of Alexandria, and the mayor of said
city shall have yuriediction of all violations of said ordinances.

7. The said company shall be subject to all the general laws
of this state relating to corporations, not inconsistent with this
act. )

8. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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