CHAP. 179.—An ACT to incorporate the Shiloh Colored Cemetery of
Fredericksburg.

Approved March 4, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Washington
Wright, Simon E. Bascey, Cornelius S. Lucas, James Gordon,
James Williams and Edmond Sprow, Junior, now acting as
deacons in the Shiloh colored church of Fredericksburg, and
their successors, and all such persons as may hereafter 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 Shiloh Colored Cemetery of
Fredericksburg.

2. The said company shall have the right to hold, in and
near the town of Fredericksburg, and not more than one mile
from the corporate limits of said town, a quantity of land not
exceeding ten acres, for the purpose of said cemetery, and
shall have power to lay out and ornament the same, to erect
such buildings thereon as may be deemed 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
government of the establishment as shall be judged best: pro-
vided, the same be not 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
made over said land or any part thereof, except for the use of
said company, without the consent of the said company ; nor
shall the same be condemned or taken for any public use with-
out the like consent.

4, The estate, property and affairs of said corporation not
otherwise provided for, shall be managed and controlled by a
board of nine trustees, six of whom shall be the original corpora-
tors, and their successors, and three shall be chosen from 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
shall take place at the Fredericksburg Shiloh Baptist church
at such time as may be designated by the six deacons named
in this act, seven days’ notice of the same being given at said
Shiloh church previous to said meeting, at which meeting, and
at all other meetings the members may vote in person or by
proxy.

6. That there shall be annual meetings of the members for
the election of three trustees, to be chosen in addition to the
deacons of said Shiloh church, and their successors, who are
constituted the permanent trustees, at such time and place as
the by-laws may require; but in the event of a failure to hold
such meetings the three elected 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 at the annual meetings thereafter for
the election of the same, they shall elect from their own body
a president, and may elect a secretary and treasurer, and such
other officers as the by-laws may designate, either from their
own body or elsewhere, as may be preferred, and may so fill
any vacancy that may occur in any office.

8. That no interest of a corporator or lot-holder in the pro-
perty of said company shall be subject in any way to the pay-
ment of debts, pass by insolvency, or into the hands of execu-
tors or administrators, or be liable for taxes for state, county,
district or any other public purposes; but the rights and inte-
ywer to ac- 9. The said company shall have full power to acquire by

ire rere. Sales of lots, gifts and devises in money and personal property,

rty 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, as
may be decided upon at any annual or called meeting of the
trustees and pruprietors of lots.

opertytobe 10. The grounds and improvements thereon, and all other

der protec. property and things connected therewith belonging to said

esof the company hereby incorporated, shall, for all police purposes, be

wn under the protection of and subject to the ordinances of the
corporation of the town of Fredericksburg; 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 Fredericksburg.

mmencem’t 11. This act shall be in force from its passage.