CHAP. 15.—An ACT to incorporate the Rappahannoek Freedman’s
Cemetery Company.

eApproved January 10, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Aaron Commodore, Arthur Baden, William Holmes, David
Potts, Thomas Latane, Ferdinand Eskridge, John Lewis, Ro-
bert Jackson, James H. Webb, Campbell Green, George T.
Green, and Augustus Bunday, and such other persons as they
shall associate with them, and their successors, shall be and
are hereby made and constituted a body politic and corporate,
under the name of the Rappahannock Freedman's Cemetery
Company, subject to the provisions of the fifty-six and fifty-
seventh chapters of the Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, so far as the same may be applica-
ble and necessary for cemetery purposes; and also, of an act
approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six :
provided that at no time shall the real estate held by the said
company exceed twenty acres. The officers of the company
shall be a president and five directors, who shall be elected once
in every two years by the company, and such other offlcers as
the board may deem necessary and proper, and whose duties
shall, from time to time, be prescribed by the by-laws, rules and
regulations of the company ; the first election to be held on the
fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. No
interest of a corporator in the property of the said company
shall be subject, in any way, to the payment of debts, pass by
insolvency, or into the hands cf personal representatives, or be
liable for taxes of any description, but the rights and interest
shall remain in the families of each, according to the course of
descent: provided that no money derived from the sale of lots
in this cemetery shall be appropriated to private use, or for any
other than the benefit and improvement of the said cemetery.
No streets, lanes, roads or alleys shall at any time be estab-
lished or made over the land of said company, or any part
thereof, without the consent of said company; nor shall the
same be condemned, or taken in any manner, for any public
use, without such consent. The grounds and improvements
thereon, and all other property and things connected therewith
belonging to the company hereby incorporated, shall for all po-
lice purposes, be under the protection of and subject to the or-
dinances of the town of Tappahannock ; and the mayor of said
town shall have jurisdiction concurrent with the justices and
other officers of Essex county, of all offences committed upon
and within said grounds, in the same manner as if done and
committed within the town of Tappahannock.

2. The said company shall not own any land at a greater dis-
tance than one mile from the corporate limits of the town of
‘Tappahannock, Essex county.

8. This act shall be in force from its passaye.