CHAP. 273.--An ACT to incorporate the Marshall Cemetery.
Approved February 27, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Lawrence Washington, F. W. Maddox, J. M. Ramsay, Edward
Carter, J. H. Foster, Thomas U. Russell, E. Cook Glascock,
Frederick Horner, Henry Foster, J. S. Mason and R. A.
Beverly, their successors and associates, and all such persons
as: hereafter may become stockholders in the cemetery hereby
incorporated, shall be and are hereby created and made a bodv
politic and corporate, under the name and style of the Marshall
cemetery, with power by that name to have perpetual succes-
sion, to sue and be sued, to have a common seal, and to alter
the same at their discretion.

2. The said company shall have the right to acquire and
hold, in or near the town of Marshall, in the county of Fauquier,
not exceeding in quantity twenty acres of land, for the purposes
of said cemetery, and shall have power to lay out and ornament
the same, to erect such buildings thereon as it may deem neces-
sary and proper, to arrange burial lots and sell the same, and
to make and enforce, by reasonable fines and penalties, such
by-laws, rules and regulations for its own organization for the
management of its business; for the election of all necessary
officers, and the appointment of agents; for the issue of certifi-
cates of stock, and the transfer of the same: provided, such by-
laws and regulations shall not be inconsistent with the laws ot
this state: and provided also, that in all the meetings of stock-
holders the votes shall be in proportion to the amount of stock
held by each respectively.

.3. That the capital stock of said company shall be of such
amount as the said company shall determine, and may be in-
creased, from time to time, at their discretion; but the amount
of capital stock shall not be fixed at an amount less than one
thousand dollars, nor greater than the value of the property
and franchises owned by said company, including the sums ex-
pended, and to be actually expended in developing and improv-
ing said cemetery.

4. That hereafter no streets, lanes, alleys or roads shall be
made or established over said land or any part thereof, except
for the use of said company, without the consent of said com-
pany, nor shall the same be condemned or taken for any public
use without like consent.

5. That no interest of a 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 adminis-
trators, 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.

6. The persons named in the first section of this act, shall
constitute the first board of directors, who shall hold their offices
until their successors are elected and qualified.
7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after
its passage, and shall be subject to the provisions of all general
laws now in force, or which shall be hereafter passed, governing
other chartered companies, so far as they are applicable to the
company hereby incorporated.

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