Chap. 348.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 3 of an act
entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Graham, in the county
of Tazewell, approved February 29, 1892.

Approved February 17, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That eection
seven of chapter three of an act to provide a new charter for the town
of Graham, in the county of Tazewell, approved February twenty-
ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, acts of assembly of eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-one and eighteen hundred and ninety-two,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§7. The town council is empowered to acquire lands, either within
or without the corporate limits of said town, to be used as a place, or
places, for the burial of the dead, to be conveyed to said town in its
corporate name. The said council shal! also have power to prescribe
and enforce all needful rules and regulations, not inconsistent with
the laws of the state, for the use, protection, and ornamentation of
the cemetery; to set aside, at their discretion, by metes and bounds,
a portion thereof for the interment of strangers and the indigent
poor; to divide the remainder into burial lots, and sell or lease the
same in the corporate name of said town, and in its corporate name
to execute all proper deeds or other writings in evidence thereof,
through its mayor, attested by its secretary; and to prescribe what
class or condition of persons shall be admitted to interment in the
cemetery. The money from such sale or lease of burial lots shall be
invested, used, and employed for the use, protection, preservation,
and ornamentation of said burial-ground. No cemetery shall be thus
located for the use of said town within one hundred yards of any
residence without the consent of the owner or occupier of said resi-
dence. The said grounds, when established and enclosed, shall be
exempt from state, county, and municipal taxation.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.