Chap. 272.—An ACT to incorporate the Poplar Spring Cemetery
Company of Franklin.

Approved March 4, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
R. H. B. Cobb, C. C. Vaughan, W. H. L. Goodman, A. L.
Gardner, J. P. Gay, A. W. Norfleet, J. D. Pretlow, S. B.
Pretlow, A. M. Brownly, J. H. Bogart, and L. R. Edwards,
and such other persons as they may associate with them,
and their successors, shall be, and are hereby made and con-
stituted a body politic and corporate, under the name of
Poplar Spring Cemetery Company of Franklin, subject to the
provisions of the fifty-six and fifty-seventh chapters of the
Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-
three, so far as the same may be applicable and necessary tor
cemetery purposes; and also of an act approved February
tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six: provided that at
no time shall the real estate held by said company exceed
ten acres. The officers of the company shall be a president,
secretary, treasurer, and five directors, who shall be elected
in every two years, and such other officers as the stock-
holders may deem necessary and proper, and whose duties
shall, from time to time, be prescribed by the by-laws, rules
and regulations of the company; the first election to be held
the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-four.
No streets, lanes, roads or alleys shall at any time be estab-
lished or made over the land of said company without the
consent of the said company, nor shall any of said land be
taken or condemned in any manner for 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 pur-
poses, be under the protection of, and subject to the ordinances
of the town of Franklin; and the mayor of said town shall
have jurisdiction concurrent with the justices and other
officers of Southampton county, of all offences committed
upon and within said grounds in the same manner as if done
and committed within the town of Franklin.

2. The said company shall not own any land at a greater
distance than one mile trom the corporate limits of the town
of Franklin, Southampton county.

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