CHAP. 1.—An ACT to incorporate the Lovettsville Union Cemetery
Company.

Approved December ]9, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly, That Peter A. Corporators:
Fry, George Wire, L. W. Hickman, J. W. Goodhart, John D.

Fry, Charles K. Hough, John Compher of P., Joseph Compher,
Charles W. Fry of S., Jacob D. Virtz, John G. R. Kalb, David

‘line, Charles W. Fry of I., John W. Nixon, and William J.
vaniyusve, their successors and associates, and all such persons as
uw, .lereafter become owners of lots in the cemetery hereby
incorporated, shall be and are hereby created and made a body
politic and corporate under the name and style of The Lovetts- corporate
ville Union Cemetery Company. name

2. The said company shall have the right to hold, in or near Right to hold
the town of Lovettsville, not exceeding in quantity ten acres Ciety ani gen:
of land, for the purposes of said cemetery; and shall have ¢ral powers
power to lay out and ornament the same, to erect such buildings
thereon as it may deem necessary and proper, to errange burial
lots, and to make and enforce by reasonable fines and penalties
such by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of the
establishment as it shall judge best: provided the same be not Proviso
contrary to the constitution and laws of the United States or
of this state.

3. That hereafter no streets, lanes, alleys or roads shall be Strects
made or established, or made over said land, or any part tery secnn
thereof, except for the use of said company, (without the Exception
consent of the said company,) nor shall the same be condemned
or taken for any public use without the like consent.

4. The estate, property and affairs of said corporation, not Board of direc”
otherwise provided for, shall be managed and controlled by a {prs pow
board of nine trustees, to be chosen from among the original
corporators, or those who may have become proprietors of lots
in said cemetery, in which elections each corporator or lot-
owner shall be entitled to one vote.

5. That the first meeting of the members of said company Time of meet-
shall take place at the said cemetery grounds at such time as its of corpo-
may be designated by the first six of the persons named in
this act, seven days’ public notice of the same being given
previous to said meeting; at which meeting and at all other
meetings the members may vote in person or by proxy.

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6. That there shall ever after be annual meetings of the
members for the election of trustees, at such time as the by-
laws may require; but in the event of a failure to hold such
meetings, the trustees tren 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. That no interest of a corporator or lot-holder in the
property of said company shall be subjected in any way to the
payment of debts, pass by insolvency, or into the hands of
executors or administrators, or be liable for taxes for state,
county, district or any other public purpose; but the rights
and interest shall remain in the families of each according to
the course of descents.

9. The said company shall have full power to acquire, by
sales of lots, gifts and devises in money and personal property,
or by a tax on lot-holders, an amount in value not exceeding
ten thousand dollars: provided, however, that said company
shall make no use of said money, property or effects, except
for the improvement, repairs and maintenance of the cemetery.

10. The grounds and improvements thereon, and all other
property and things connected therewith belonging to said
company hereby incorporated, shall, for all police purposes, be
under the protection of and subject to the ordinances of the
corporation of the town of Lovettsville, and the mayor,
recorder and common council of said corporation shall have
jurisdiction of all offences committed upon and within said
grounds in the same manner as if done and committed within
the town of Lovettsville.

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