Chap. 204.—An ACT to incorporate the Green Hill Cemetery Com-
pany.

Approved March 6, 1880. .

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Ephraim Geading, B. H. Lickliter, Gideon Smith, W. T. Light-
ner, H. H. Hanger, D. F. Hoover, E. B. Bear, William J. Eve-
ritt, Christian Bear and H. B. Seig, their associates and suc-
cessors, and all such persons as hereafter become or are now
owners of lots in the cemetery hereby incorporated, shall be
and are hereby made a body politic and corporate under the
name of The Green Hill Cemetery Company, and by that name
and style shall be able and capable in law to have and use a
common seal, to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be
sued, to plead and be impleaded, and to do and perform all
such other things as are incident to a body politic and corpo-
rate.

2. That said company shall have the right to purchase and

1 hold, in or near the village of Churchville, in Augusta county,
not exceeding in quantity five acres of land, for the purposes
of said cemetery ; and shall have power to lay out and ornament
the same, to erect such buildings thereon as it may deem neces-
sary and proper, to arrange burial lots, and make and enforce,
by reasonable fines and penalties, such by-laws, rules and reg-
ulations for the government of the establishment as it shall
judge best: provided, the same be not contrary to the constitu-
tion and laws of the United States or of this state.

3. That hereafter no streets, lanes, alleys or roads shall be

- made or established, or made over said land, or any part there-
of, except for the use of said company, nor shall the same be
condemned or taken for any public use.

4, The estate, property and affairs of said corporation not
otherwise provided for shall be managed and controlled by a
board of seven trustees, to be chosen from amongst the origi-
nal corporators, or those who may have become proprietors of

sy lots in said cemetery, in which election and all other meetings
each corporator or lot-owner shall be entitled to one vote.

5. That the first meeting of the members of said company
shall take place in the village of Churchville, in Augusta county,
at such time as may be designated by any five of the persons
named in this act, ten days’ public notice of the same being
given previous to said meeting; at which meeting and all other
meetings the members may vote in person or by proxy.

6. There shall ever after be annual meetings of the members !
for the election of trustees at such time as the by-laws of the {
company may require; but in the event of a failure to hold t
such meetings, the trustees then in office shall continue until 5
their successors may be elected.

7. That immediately after the first general meeting for the o
election of trustees and of all other elections of trustees, they
shall elect from their own body a president, and shall elect a
treasurer and secretary and such other officers as the by-laws
may designate, and may fill any vacancy that may occur in any
office.

8. That no interest of a corporator or lof-holder in the property 1
of said company shall be subjected in any way to the payment =
of debts, pass by insolvency, or into the hands of executors or 4
administrators, or be liable for taxes of any description, but
the rights and intcrests shall remain in the families of each
according to the course of descents.

9. Be it further enacted, That said company shall have full »
power to acquire by sales of lots, gift or devises in money and ;|
personal property, an amount in value not exceeding ten thou-
sand dollars: provided, however, that said company shall make F
no use of said money, property and effects, except for the im-
provement of the cemetery.

10. And be it further enacted, That the grounds and im- F
provements thereon, and all other property and things con- }
nected therewith belonging to said company hereby incorpo- o
rated, shall, for all police purposes, be under the protection of
the county of Augusta; and the courts of said county shall 3
have jurisdiction concurrent with the justices and other officers ©
of the county of all offences committed upon and within the
grounds of the company.

11. This act shall be in force from its passage. C