CHAP. 429.—An ACT to incorporate the Riverview cemetery
company.

Approved February 29, 1892.

1. Be if enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That George Chewning, P. V. D. Conway, David Hirsh,
John Griffin, T. McCracken, J. B. Ficklin, M. B. Rowe, L.
W. White, H. Von Schon, W. 8S. White, A. B. Botts, and
such other persons as they may associate with them and
they may subscribe to the capital stock of the company
be, and they are hereby, constituted a body corporate and
politic, to be known as the Riverview cemetery company,
by which name it shall have perpetual succession and a
common seal; may be sued and sue, plead and be im-
pleaded, contract and be contracted with.

2. The capital stock of the said company shall not be
less than two thousand dollars nor more than ten thou-
sand dollars, divided into shares of twenty-five dollars
each, which shall be paid in cash or instalments, as the
by-laws may require; and the personal liability of each
and every stockholder for the debts of the company shall
be limited to the amount unpaid on the shares of stock
subscribed for by such stockholders. All certificates of
stock shall be under the seal of the company and signed
by the president and countersigned by the secretary.
Shares of stock shall be deemed personal property. Each
stockholder shall have one vote, in person or proxy, in the
election of directors and officers and at all the meetings
of the stockholders for each share of stock held by him.

3. The said Riverview cemetery shall have the power
and authority to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, and
hold a piece or parcel of land, not to exceed twenty acres,
near and convenient to the city of Fredericksburg, to be
appropriated and used for a burying-ground and cemetery,
and for that purpose may lay off the same into lots and sub-
divisions of lots suitable for graves and vaults, and may
improve or ornament the same with roads, walks and
drives; and the land thus acquired, Jaid out and improved
and ornamented shall be held by the said company for the
purpose of a cemetery as aforesaid, and for no other pur-
pose.

4. The said Riverview cemetery company may sell and
convey any of the lots or subdivisions in the said cemetery
for burial purposes on such conditions as they may pre-
scribe in their by-laws, and the lots thus conveyed shall be
held for burial purposes only, and shall not be sold or
conveyed by the owner out of his family after any inter-
ments have been made therein; and they shall not be at
any time sold or subject to sale by any order of court, nor
shall they at any time be sold to or owned or used by any
person except he be a white person. ’

5. The officers of the said Riverview cemetery company
shall be a president, treasurer, secretary and a board of
five directors, who shall be elected at the general and
annual meeting of the stockholders.

6. A survey and plat showing the walks and roads and
the number, size and location of lots of the grounds of the
cemetery shall be made, and a copy thereof may be filed
and recorded in the clerk’s office of the county court of
the county of Spotsylvania. And no street, lane, road or
alley shall be made over the land of the said company
without its consent, nor shall the said land be condemned
or taken for public use without the consent of the com-
pany.

7. The said company, or any owner of any lot, may dig
a vault in his lot, or adorn it by a monument or tomb-
stones, or shrubbery or flowers, which are not by their
branches or roots, or otherwise, detrimental] to the adjacent
lots or ornaments, or are not unsightly and inconvenient
to visitors; and if they are, in the judgment of the board
of directors, detrimental or unsightly or inconvenient, then
the board of directors may order their removal, either
specially or by such general laws as they may adopt; and
if they are not removed in the time specified, then the
board of directors may order and cause them to be re-
moved at the cost and charge of the party or parties that
own the lot, and may collect the same by warrant or action,
according to the amount.

8. No interest of a lot-holder in the property of said
company shall be in any way subject to the payment of
debts, pass by insolvency or into the hands 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.

9. The justice of the peace of the county of Spotsyl-
vania and the county court of said county shall have
jurisdiction over all offences against the laws of this state
committed upon the property and within the grounds of
the cemetery of said company, and all the ordinances of
the city of Fredericksburg relating to matters of police
shall extend over the said grounds, and for such purposes
the said grounds shall be considered within the limits of
the city of Fredericksburg, and the mayor of said town
shall have jurisdiction of all violations of said ordinances.

10. The said company shall be subject to all the general

laws of this state relating to corporations not inconsistent
with this act.
. 11. The persons named in the first section of this act, or
any two or more of them, may open books for subscription
to the capital stock of said company, and when two thou-
sand dollars of the capital stock shall have been subscribed,
may organize said company by the election of the officers
and board of directors provided for by this act.

12. All taxes due or to become due the commonwealth
by this company shall be paid in lawful money of the
United States, and not in coupons.

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