Chap. 211.—An ACT to Incorporate the Green Hill Cemetery of N. T.
Stephensburg, Frederick County, Virginia.

Approved March 22, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That M. H. Albin,
M.B. Steele, M. W. Steele, G. F. Mayers, Wm. H. Weaver, Thomas
M. Miller,Geo. A. Grove, C. E. Shyrock and John W. Ritmour,
their successors and associates, and all such persons as here-
after may become owners of lots in the cemetery hereby incor-
porated, shall be and are hereby created and made a body pol-
itic and corporate, under the name and style of the Green Hill
N. T. Stephensburg Cemetery.

2. The capital stock of said company shall be not less than
two hundred and fifty dollars, nor more than two thousand
dollars. | :
3. The said company shall have the right to purchase and
hold in the county of Frederick not exceeding in quantity ten
acres of land for the purposes of said cemetery ; and shall have
power to lay out and ornament the same, to erect such build-
ings thereon as it may deem necessary and proper, to arrange
burial lots, and to make and enforce by reasonable fines and
penalties such by-laws, rules and regulations for the govern-
ment of the establishment as it shall judge best: provided, the
same be not contrary to the constitution and laws of the United
States or of this state. a

4, The estate, property and affairs of said corporation, not
otherwise provided for, shall be managed and controlled by a
board of nine trustees, to be chosen from amongst the original
corporators and those who may have become proprietors of 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 at N. T. Stephensburg, at such time and place
as may be designated by the persons above named, seven days’
public notice of the same being given previous to the meeting ;
at which meeting, and at all other meetings, the members may
vote in person or by proxy.

6. That there shall hereafter be annual meetings of the mem-
bers 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
such meetings, the trustees then in office shall continue until
their successors may be elected.

7. That immediately after the first general meeting for the
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. This act shall be in force from its passage.