Chap. 107.—An ACT to amend Chapter 440, as amended, of the Acts of Assembly
of 1889-1890, approved March 3, 1890, which provided a new charter for the
town of Liberty and changed its name to Bedford City (and which is now
known as Bedford) by adding a new section numbered 3/-a, relating to care of
cemeteries, and to validate certain acts. {H 218}

Approved March 4, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That chapter four hundred forty, as amended, of the Acts
Assembly of eighteen hundred eighty-nine-eighteen hundred
1ety, approved March three, eighteen hundred ninety, be amend-
by adding a new section numbered thirty-seven-a as follows:
Section 37-a. Whenever, during the fiscal year, the funds
rived from the sale of cemetery lots in the Bedford cemeteries
all have amounted to the sum of two thousand dollars the town
asurer shall take therefrom sixty per centum of said amount
d deposit the same in a separate account to the credit of “Bedford
metery Maintenance Fund” in such bank or banks as the council
ay designate. Said maintenance fund shall forever be maintained,
d at the direction of the council shall be securely invested in
terest bearing municipal, State or government bonds or loaned
on otherwise unencumbered real estate, within the State, upon a
sis not exceeding fifty per centum of normal cash value of such
al estate or invested in other securities approved by the general
vs of the State for the investment of such funds, or deposited
bank on a reasonable rate of interest.

Only the annual income therefrom shall be appropriated or
d by the council and then its appropriation and use shall be for
other purpose than for the maintenance and upkeep of the
Bedford Cemeteries designated as Longwood Cemetery, Oakwood
Cemetery and Greenwood Cemetery.

Nothing contained herein shall be construed as prohibiting the
council from making appropriations from any other funds or
sources for the developing, maintenance and upkeep of these
cemeteries.

2. All prior acts of the council in relation hereto are hereby
confirmed and validated.

3. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its
passage.