Chap. 72.—An ACT to incorporate The Woodland Cemetery Company.
Approved February 12, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
James A. Scott, William Josiah Leake, Charles Stebbins,
John §. James, John G. Tiller, Hill Carter, George EH. M.
Walton, C. St. George Noland, Duncan B. Cox, C. C. Buck-
mer, J. Bell Bigger, Nathaniel August, William P. Mayo,
William Clark, 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 Woodland Cemetery Company, subject to the provi-
sions of the fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh chapters of the Code
of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
so far as the same may be applicable and necessary for come-
tery purposes: 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 officers as the board may deem necessary and
proper, and whose duties shall, from time to time, be pre-
scribed by the by-laws, rules, and regulations of the company,
the first election to be held on the sixth day of April, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-six. 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 of personal representatives, or be liable for taxes of
any description, but the rights and interest shall remain in
the families 8f each according to the course of descent: pro-
vided, 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 es-
tablished 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 improve-
ments thereon, and all other property and things connected
therewith belonging to the company hereby incorporated,
‘shall, for all police purposes, be under the protection of and
‘subject to the ordinances of the town of Ashland; and the
mayor of said town shall have jurisdiction concurrent with
the justices and other officers of Hanover county, of all of-
fences committed upon and within said grounds, in the same
manner as if done and committed within the town of Ash-
Jand.

2. The said company shall not own any land at a greater
<dlistance than one mile from the corporate limits of the town
of Ashland, Hanover county. .

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