Chap. 628.—An ACT to incorporate Bedford City Cemetery, in and near Bedfon
City, Bedford county, Virginia.

‘Approved April 2, 1902.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That J. A. Clark
IT. ‘0. Humphreys, W iliam Eubank, C. W. Thomas, and S. P. West, thei
successors and associates, and: all such persons as hereafter may becom:
stockholders in the cemetery hereby incorporated, shall be, and are hereby
created and made a body politic and corporate urder the name and stv:
of Bedford City Cemetery, with power by that name to have perpetua
succession, to sue and be sued, to have a common seal, and to alter the
same at their discretion.

2. The said company shall have the right to acquire and hold in or nea
the town of Bedford City, in the county of Bedford, not exceeding ir
quantity twenty acres of land, for the purposes of said cemetery, and
shall have the power to lay out and ornament the same, to erect such
buildings thereon as it may deem necessary and proper, to arrange burial
lots and sell the same, and to make and enforee by reasonable fines anc
penalties such by-laws, rules, and regulations for its own organizatior.
for the manage ment of its business, for the clection of all. necessart
officers, and the appointment of agents, for the issue of certificates of
stock and the transfer of the same: provided, such by-laws and regula-
{ions shall not be inconsistent with the laws of this State: and provided.
also, that in all meetings of the stockholders the votes shall be in propor-
tion to the amount of stock held by each respectively.

3. That the capital stock of said company shall be not less than five
hundred dollars nor greater than five thousand dollars.
4. That hereafter no streets, lanes, alleys, or roads shall be made or
established over said land, or any part thereof, except for the use of the
company, nor shall the same be condemned or taken for any public use
except by the unanimous consent of the said company or their successors.

5. That no interest of a lot-holder in the preperty of the said com-
pany shall be subjected in any way to the payment of debts passed by
insolvency into the hands of executors or administrators, or be liable for
taxes of any description, but the rights and interests shall remain in the
families of each according to the course of the dexcent.

6. The persons named in the first section of this act shall constitute
the first board of directors, who shall hold their offices until their suc-
céssors are elected and qualified, which elections shall be governed by the
by-laws of the said company.

7%. The by-laws of the said company shall be considered in effect as
soon as ratified by two-thirds of the directors.

8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage,
and shall be subject to the provisions of all general laws now in force or
which shall be hereafter passed governing other chartered companies, so
far as they are applicable to the company hereby incorporated.

9. The property and franchises of said corporation shall be exempt
from all taxes and levies due the State or county.

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