Chap. 206.—An ACT to Incorporate the Louisa Cemetery Association.
Approved July 9, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly ot Virginia, That
S. D. Gooch, Henry W. Murray, Edward H. Lane, Jesse W.
Melton, and J. C. Cammack, and such other personas may
be associated with them, are hereby constituted and made a
body politic and corporate, under the name and style of The
Louisa Cemetery Association, and by that name may sue and
be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any of the courts of this
commonwealth, and shall enjoy all the rights and privileges
conferred, and be subject to all the rules, regulations, and re-
strictions imposed by the fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh chapters
of the Code of Virginia, so far as the same are applicable to
and not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

2. The said association shall have the right to hold by pur-
chase, gift, or devise, land, not exceeding twenty acres, in the
county of Louisa, for the purpose of establishing said ceme-
tery therein, and shall have power to lay out and ornament
the same, to sell and make conveyances of lots, to erect suita-
ble buildings and vaults, and to make and enforce, by reasona-
ble fines and penalties, such by-laws and regulations for the
government of said cemetery as it shall deem necessary and
proper.

8. The estate, property, and affairs of said corporation, not
otherwise nrevided for, shall be managed and controlled by
three trustees, to be chosen by proprietors of lots in the said
cemetery, and at all elections, each stockholder shall be enti-
tled to one vote. The first election te be holden at such time
and place as the majority of the trustees named in the first
section may designate, and under their superintendence.

4, No interest of a lot-holder in the property of said asso-
ciation shall in any way be subject to the payment of debts, or
pass into the hands of executors or administrators, or be liable
for taxes of any description; but the right and interest of
each shall descend to and remain in the family of the lot-holder,
according to the course of descents.

5. This act shall be in force from its passage, and shall be
subject to amendment, modification, or repeal, at the pleasure
of the general assembly.