Chap. 598.—An ACT toauthorize the council of the town of Waverly to es-
tablish cemeteries or burial places within or without said town and to vali-
date a certain deed conveying land to said town for that purpose.

Approved March 8, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
council of the town of Waverly, in the county of Sussex, be, and it
i8 hereby, authorized and empowered to establish, maintain and
regulate one or more cemeteries or burial places either within or
without the boundaries of said town, and for that purpose said coun-
cil is empowered to acquire, hold and convey in the name of said
town not to exceed five acres of land, either within or without the
boundaries of said town. And the town of Waverly having pur-
chased of Martin Schaefer two and one-tenth acres of land lying a
short distance from the corporate limits of said town to be used asa
public cemetery ; be it further enacted that the deed from said Mar-
tin Schaefer and Virginia L. Schaefer, his wife, dated June eighth,
eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and duly recorded in the clerk’s
office of Sussex county court, in deed-book number eight, page six
hundred and twenty-two, conveying said land to said town, be, and
the same is hereby, declared to be legal, valid and binding in all
respects upon the parties thereto.

2. A receipt signed by the treasurer of said town showing that the
holder thereof has paid to said town the amount charged for a lot in
any cemetery established or maintained under the provisions of this
act, shall be a sufficient deed to transfer the title to such lot to such
purchaser thereof.

3. The council of said town in pursuance of the powers given it
under the provisions of this act shall have power to regulate and
control the burial of the dead within the corporate limits of said
town.

4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.

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