Chap. 39.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the act to incorporate the Bethel
cemetery company, approved December 15, 1885.

Approved January 9, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the act
entitled an act to incorporate the Bethel cemetery company be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: That John W. May,
Benoni Wheat, William H. May, William F. Vincent, and George W.
Keys, or any three of them, may open books of subscription, and
when five thousand dollars shall have been subscribed by them, and
such others as may hereafter be associated with them, they shall be
a body corporate and politic, to be known as the Bethel cemetery
company, by which name and style it shall have perpetual succes-
sion and a common seal; may sue and be sued. plead and be im-
pleaded in all courts, contract and be contracted with, and ordain
and establish by-laws; provided such by-laws be not in conflict with
the laws of the state or the United States.

2. The capital stock of the company shall not be less than five
thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars, divided into
shares of fifty dollars each, which shall be paid in cash or instal-
ments, 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 or share of stock sub-
scribed for by such stockholders. All certificates of stock shal! '
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 by proxy, in the election of directors and officers, and at all the
meetings of the stockholders, for each share of stock held by them.

3. The officers of the said company shall consist of a president,
secretary, who may likewise be the treasurer, and of a board of
three directors, and they shall be elected annually by a majority of
the votes cast, and’shall hold their respective offices until their suc-
cessors are elected. The annual meeting of the stockholders shall
be held at such a place in the city of Alexandria, and at such time
as may be fixed by the by-laws. The first annual meeting shall be
held on the first Monday in May, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
Special meetings of the stockholders may be held at any time by
the call of the president, on giving notice of the time and place of
meeting, at which meetings any business, except the election of offi-
cers, may be transacted that may be done at the annual meeting. A
vacancy in the office of the president shall be filled by appointment of the
board of directors. A vacancy in either of the offices of secretary or treas-
urer shall be filled by appointment of the president and board of directors
until the next ensuing annual meeting.

4, The said company shall have power to acquire, by purchase or
otherwise, and hold land, not to exceed twenty acres, in Fairfax
county, near the city of Alexandria, to be used for a burial place or
cemetery, and for no other purpose, and may lay off same in lots,
subdivision of lots for graves, vaults and monuments, and may im-
prove and ornament the same, and may lay out roads and walks
therein, and may sell and convey any lots or subdivision of lots on
such conditions as may be prescribed by the by-laws, and the same
shall not be subject to sale by any order of the court except as here-
inafter provided, and shall not be conveyed by the owner out of his
family, except with the consent of the company. The company may
make all proper rules and regulations for the general management of
the grounds of the cemetery and with regard to the enclosures, dig-
ging of graves and the erection of vaults and monuments, the manner
in which lots and subdivision of lots shall be kept, and the adorn-
ments thereof, and may prescribe the penalty for the violation of
them, and may enforce the same by the action at law or suit in equity.
And jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the courts of the city of
Alexandria to hear and determine all matters of controversy between
a lot owner and the company, and for such purpose the said court
process may be executed on a lot owner who is a resident of this
state, and in the county in which he resides, and on a lot owner who
is a non-resident of this state by an order of publication, and upon
a judgment in favor of the company, in any such action at law or
suit in equity, the lot or subdivision of lot of such person may be
sold to satisfy the same.

5. The survey and plot showing the walks and roads and the num-
ber, size and location of the 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 corporation court of the city of Alexandria, Vir-
ginia, and no street, road, Jane or alley shall be made over the land
of said company without its consent, nor shall the said land be con-
demned or taken for public use without the consent of said com.

any.
P 6. The justices of the peace of the city of Alexandria and the
corporation court of said city shall have jurisdiction over all offences
against the laws of the state committed upon the property and
within the ground of the cemetery of the said company, and all the
ordinances of the city council of Alexandria relating to matters of
police shall extend over the said grounds; and for such purpose
such ground shall be considered within the limits of the city of
Alexandria, and the mayor‘of said city shall have jurisdiction of
violations of such ordinances.

7, The said company shall be subject to all the general laws of the
state relating to corporations not inconsistent with this act.

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