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Volume | 1887/1888 |
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Law Number | 496 |
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Chap. 496.—An ACT to incorporate the Oakwood cemetery company,
in the county of Surry.
Approved March 5, 1888.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
E. C. Smith, A. S. Edwards, A. P. Bohannan, R. D. Gilliam,
J. T. Corbell, J. W. Whitley, and J. H. Derring, and their
successors in office, be and they are hereby constituted a body
corporate and politic to be known as the Oakwood cemetery
company, by which name they shall have perpetual succession
and a common seal, may sue and be sued, plead and be im-
pleaded, contract and be contracted with.
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2. The said Oakwood cemetery company shall have the
power and authority to acquire by purchase or otherwise,
and hold a piece or parcel of land, not to exceed fifteen acres,
near and convenient to the county seat of said county, to be
appropriated and used for a burying ground and cemetery,
and for that purpose may lay off the same into lots, and sub-
divisions of lots, suitable for graves and vaults, and may im-
prove or ornament the same with trees and shrubbery, and
flowers; and may lay out the same with rvads, walks, and
drives; and the lands thus acquired, laid out, and improved,
and ornamented, shall be held by the said company for the
purpose of a cemetery as aforesaid, and for no other purpose.
3. The said Oakwood cemetery company may sell and con-
vey any of the lots or sub-divisions in the said cemetery for
burial purposes on such conditions as they may prescribe in
their by-laws, and the lots thus conveyed shall be held for
burial purposes only, and shall not be sold or conveyed by.
the owner out of his family after any interments have been
made therein; and they shall not be at any time sold or sub-
ject to sale by any order of court; nor shall they at any time
e sold to or owned or used by any person except he bea
white person.
4. The officers of the said Oakwood cemetery company |
shall be a president, treasurer, secretary, and a board of three
directors, composed of white persons, who shall be elected at
the general and annual meeting of the stockholders, to be
held on the fourth Tuesday in May of each year, at which
annual meeting each stockholder may, in person or by proxy,
cast one vote for each share of stock that he or she may hold.
A majority of all the votes cast shall be necessary to elect
said officers.
5. A special meeting of the stockholders may he held at:
any time by the call of the president and board of directors,
on their giving five days’ notice of the time and place of such
meeting to the resident stockholders, when they may trans-
act any and all business, and do any and all things that may
be transacted and done at the regular and annual meeting.
6. The officers of the company for the present shall be E. :
C. Smith,. president; A. P. Bohannan, treasurer, R. D. Gil-
liam, secretary; and J. W. Whiteley, A. S. Edward, and J.
H. Derring, board of directors; and they shall hold their of-
fices until the fourth Tuesday in May, eighteen hundred and
eighty-eight, and until their successors are duly elected and
qualified ; and all officers and directors thereafter elected, shall
hold their office until the fourth Tuesday in May succeeding
their election, and afterwards until their successors are duly
elected.
7. The said president and board of directors may employ |
a skillful engineer to survey the land acquired by the said |
corporation; to lay it off into lots and sub-divisions of lots,
roads, walks, and drives; and they may determine the size
and price of the lots, the positions and depths of the graves,
the enclosures and ornamentations of the cemetery, and
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make all arrangements for the sale and transfer of the lots,
whenever the same is surveyed, and the number, size, and
location of the lots determined; a copy of the survey and
plat of the same, showing the number, size, and location of
said lots, shall be filed in the clerk’s office of the county court
of Surry, and recorded by said clerk in the plat-book of said
county. The lots shall be conveyed by deed of the said Oak-
wood cemetery company, signed by its president and secre-
tary, with the seal of said company attached.
8. The said Oakwood cemetery company may make such
by-laws for its government as are not inconsistent with the
laws of this state, and may prescribe such rules for the orna-
mentation of lots, the kind of enclosures of the same, the
marks designating graves, and may prohibit the planting of
such flowers and shrubbery which may, in the judgment of
the board of directors, be detrimental, unsightly, or inconve-
nient.
9. Any person who shall wilfully destroy, deface, injure,
or remove any tombstone or monument placed in said ceme-
tery, or shall wilfully remove, destroy, cut, break, or injure any
railing, fence, tree, shrub, plant, or flower in the said ceme-
tery, or shall shoot off and discharge any gun, pistol, or
other fire-arm within the said cemetery, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less
than five dollars; and the money when collected, shall be
paid to the treasurer of the company, and shall be applied to
the reparation or restoration of the property injured, or if
none be injured, shall be applied as thé president and direct-
ors shall determine.
10. The capital stock of the said company shall be not more
than five thousand dollars, divided into shares of five dollars
each.
11. All persons and employees connected with this com-
pany shall be special policemen, and shall have power to
arrest all intruders and depredators upon the premises.
12. This act shall be in force from its passage.