Chap. 170.—An ACT to amend section 1414 code of Virginia 1887, in relation
to cemeteries in Henrico county, and giving the town of Barton Heights
the authority to regulate by proper ordinances the burial of dead bodies
in the cemeteries adjoining the town of Barton Heights and known as
plat Cedarwood, Union Mechanics’, Methodist, Ebenezer, and Sycamore
cemeteries.

\ Approved January 15, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fourteen hundred and fourteen, code of Virginia eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, be re-enacted to read as follows:

§ 1414. Nothing in the four preceding sections fourteen hundred and
ten, fourteen hundred and eleven, fourteen hundred and twelve, and
fourteen hundred and thirteen, code of eighteen hundred and eighty.
seven, shall be so construed as to authorize any cemetery to be hereafte1
established, enlarged or extended in the county of Henrico within one
mile of any residence, or within one mile of the town of Barton Heights
and be it further enacted that the town council of Barton Heights shal
have jurisdiction over and are hereby empowered to make by prope
ordinances such rules and regulations for the governing of the buria
of dead bodies in the cemeteries adjoining the town of Barton Height:
known as Ham’s, Cedarwood, Methodist, Union Mechanics’, Ebenezer
and Sycamore cemeteries, as to the said council shall be to the bes
interests of the said cemeteries and most conducive to the health anc
comfort of the town of Barton Heights and to prevent the creation o.
nuisance by improper burials. The said council of the town of Bartor
Heights being by this act empowered to enforce the observance of suc]
ordinances they may ordain in relation to said cemeteries and to punisl
persons violating such ordinances, so that any fine which may be imposec
for such violation shall not be in excess of fifty dollars and imprisonmen
not exceeding twelve months, or both by fine and imprisonment in th
discretion of the court.

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