Chap. 249.—An ACT to incorporate the Hollywood Hill Cemetery.
Approved May 16, 1887.

1. Beit enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That
James J. Darden, E. M. Darden, Doctor W. B. Barham, W.
A. Myrick, James A. Pope, J. L. Barham, R. E. Darden, J.
S. Musgrave, and II. P. Kindred, their successors and asso-
ciates, and all such persons as hereafter may become stock-
holders 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 Hollywood Hill Cemetery, with
power by that name to have perpetual succession, to sue and
ve sued, to havea common seal, and toalter the same at their
discretion.
2. The said company shall have the right to acquire and
hold, in or near the village of Newsoms, in the county of
Southampton, not exceeding in quantity ten acres of land
for the purposes of said cemetery, and shall have the power
to lay out and ornament the same; to erect such buildings
thereon as it may deem necessary ‘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 regu.
lations for its own organization for the management of its
business; for the election of all necessary oflicers, and the
appointment of agents; for the issue of certificates of stock,
and the transfer of the same: provided such by-laws and
regulations shall not be inconsistent with the laws of this
State: and provided also that in all the meetings ot the 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 tbeir discretion; but the amount
of capital stock shall not be fixed at an amount less than five
hundred dollars, nor greater than the value of the property
and franchises owned by said company, including the sums
expended and to be actually expended in developing and im-
proving 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 uso of said company, nor shall the same be
condemned or taken for any public use, except by the unani-
mous consent of said company or their successors.

5. That no interest of a lot-bolder in the property of said
company shall be subjected in any way to the payment of
debts, pass by insolvency, or into the bands of executors or
administrators, 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 clected and qualified, which
elections shall be governed by the by-lawa of the said com-
pany.

7. The by-laws of the said company shall be considered in
effect as soon as ratified by two-thirds of the directors.

8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after
its passage, and shall be subject to the provisions of all gene-
ral laws now in force, or which shall be hereafter passed,
governing other chartered companies, 80 far as they are ap-
plicable to the company hereby incorporated.

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