CHAP. 14.—An ACT to incorporate The Keezeltown Cemetery
Company.

Approved March 28, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That George B.
Keezel, George P. Burtner, Archibald Taylor, Adam il. Brewer,
Abraham Whitmore, Joseph Funkhouser, Moses I. Carrier,
strother Sheets, Jos. Clatterbuck, Edward H. Huffman, Peachy
A. Bertram, Jacob Echard, Samuel Sheets, Morgan C. Koontz,
James Armentrout, Augustin Armentrout, and such other per-
sons as they shall associate with them, and their successors,
shall be and are hereby made and constituted a body politic
and corporate under the name of The Keezeltown Cemetery
Company, subject to the provisions of the fifty-sixth and fifty-
seventh chapters of the Code of Virginia, edition of cighteen
hundred and seventy-three, so far as the same may be appli-
cable and necessary for cemetery purposes: provided that at
no time shall the real estate held by the said company exceed
five acres. The officers of the company shall be a president
and five directors, who shall be elected once in every four years
by the company, and such other officers as the board may deem
necessary and proper, and whose duties shall from time to time
be prescribed by the by-laws, rules and regulations of the com-
pany, the first election to be held on the first day of March,
eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. No interest of a corporator
in the property of the said company shall be subject in any way
to the payment of debts, pass by insolvency, or into the hands of
personal representatives, or be liable for taxes of any description,
‘but the rights and interests shall remain in the families of each
according to the course of descent: provided that no money
erived from the sale of lots in this cemetery shall be appro-
priated to private use, or for any other than the benefit and
improvement of the said cemetery. No streets, lanes, roads,
or alleys, shall at any time be established or made over the
land of said company, or any part thereof, without the consent
of said company; nor shall the same be condemned or taken
in any manner for any public use without such consent. The
grounds and improvements thereon, and all other property and
things connected therewith belonging to the company hereby
incorporated, shall, for all police purposes, be under the pro-
tection of and subject to the by-laws of said company, so far
as the same are consistent with the laws of the state of Vir-
ginia.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.