Chap. 139.—An ACT to incorporate the Newport News Cemetery
company.

Approved February 14, 1888.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That |
T. H. Gordon, Lewis Bremond, J. E. White, Theodvure Live-
zay, E. Clayton, E. B.Smith, T. E. Morriss and W. B. Crowell,
and their associates and successors, be and are now hereby
constituted a body corporate and politic, to be known and
designated as the Newport. News cemetery company; by
which name and style they shall and may have perpetual
succession and a common seal, may sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with at all times,
and in all courts and places, and in all matters whatsoever
not inconsistent with the provisions of this act and the laws
of Virginia.

2. The said company shall have power to acquire by pur-1
chase, gift or devise, and hold land, not to exceed fifty acres, |
in either of the counties of Elizabeth City or Warwick, near
Newport News, to be used for a burial place or cemetery, and «
for no other purpose; and may lay off the same into lots or
sub-divisions of lots for graves, vaults and monuments, and
may improve and ornament the same, and lay out roads and
walks therein, and erect all necessary fences and enclosures.
The said company may sell and convey any lots or sub-divis-
ions of lots on such conditions as may be prescribed in the
by-laws of said company, and no owner of any lot or sub-di-
vision thereof shall convey the same out of his family except
with the consent of the company. The said company may |
make all proper by-laws, rules and regulations for the govern-
ment of the company, for the general management of the
grounds of the cemetery, and with regard to the enclosures,
digging of graves, the erection of vaults and monuments, the
manner in which lots and sub-divisions thereof shall be kept,
and the adornments thereof with trees, shrubbery, flowers
and otherwise, and may prescribe the penalty for the viola-
tion of said by-laws, rules and regulations, and may enforce.
the same, and collect all fines for the violation thereof by
warrant or action according to amount.

3. That a survey and plat, showing the walks and roads, :
the number, size and locatiba of the lots and sub-divisions
thereof, and of the grounds of the cemetery, shall be made;
and a copy thereof shall be filed and recorded in the clerk’s
office of the county court of the county in which said ceme-
tery is located.

4. That the capital stock of the said company shall not be
less than five thousand dollars nor more than twenty thou-
sand dollars, divided into shares of twenty dollars each, which
shall be paid as the by-laws shall direct; and the personal
liability of each and every stockholder for the debts of the
company shall be limited to the amount unpaid on the share,
or shares, of stock subscribed for by such stockholder. All
certificates of stock, the form and mode of transfer of which
shall be prescribed by the by-laws, shall be under the seal of
the company, and signed by the president. Shares of stock
shall be deemed personal property. Each stockholder shall
have one vote in person or by proxy, in the election of officers
and in the transaction of the business of the company, for
each share of stock held by him.

5. The officers of said company shall consist of a president,
vice-president, secretary and treasurer, and a board of direc-
tors, consisting of five, whose manner of election, terms of
office and duties shall be ascertained and determined by the
by-laws of said company. An annual meeting of the stock-
holders shall be held at such place and at such times as may
be fixed by the by-laws, and special meetings of the stock-
holders may be called at any time by the board of directors
in such manner as the by-laws may prescribe, at which spe-
cial meetings any business, except the election of officers, may
be transacted. A vacancy in any office shall be filled by ap-
pointment of the board of directors until the next ensuing
annual election. ‘

6. The first annual meeting shall be held within sixty days
from the passage of this act at such time and place as a ma-
jority of the incorporators herein shall determine, but such
meeting shall not be held until notice thereof has been given
to each stockholder, by personal service, at least ten days be-
fore the time for said meeting.

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