Chap. 273.—An ACT to incorporate the Virginia casket, cemetery, burial and
crematory company.

Approved February 16, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That the chief
officers for the said company for the first year are: President, John C.
Weckert; vice-president, W. T. Lawrence; secretary and_ treasurer,
Charles Jones; general manager, Wirt Allen; directors, John C. Weckert,
W. T. Lawrence, Charles Jones, Wirt Allen, and J. Herbert Knotts.

2. The name of the said company shall be the Virginia casket, ceme-
tery, burial and crematory company.

3. The head office of the said company shall be located in the city of
Richmond, Virginia.

4. The capital stock of the said company shall not be less than ($5,000)
five thousand dollars nor more than ($10,000) ten thousand dollars, to
be divided into shares of the par value of ten dollars each.

5. The objects of the said company are the manufacture and sale of
caskets, coffins and burial cases, and to do a general undertaking business ;
and to establish in the county of Henrico cemetery or cemeteries for the
burial of the dead, and for the removal and reinterment of dead bodies
from other cemeteries; and to establish a crematory or crematories for
the purpose of cremating the bodies of dead persons; but no cemetery or
erematory shall be located within two hundred yards of any residence
without the person residing within such distance shall waive their objec-
tion to the establishment of such cemetery or crematory within such
distances.

6. The said corporation may acquire and hold property, real and per-
sonal, and may hold and convey the same by deed or other legal manner ;
may keep a corporate seal; may sue and be sued in its corporate name.
It is empowered to make and sell coffins, caskets and burial cases, cre-
mate dead bodies of human beings, inter dead bodics, and operate ceme-
teries, sell squares and burial lots in said cemeteries, and do all acts neces-
sary to carry on the business of making coffins, caskets and burial cases,
cremating or burying dead bodies and operating cemeteries, including the
erection of tombs and monuments over the dead in its cemeteries or
crematories.

%. The stockholders may adopt such by-laws and regulations, and
therein create such officers and directors as they may dcem necessary, and
in such by-laws provide for the government of its officers and agents, and
the management and control of the company as they may deem proper.

8. The corporation shall hold real estate for the purpose of its said
business, but no cemetery shall contain over forty acres, and the total
real estate to be held by said company shall not exceed (500) five hun-
dred acres.

9. The taxes of the said corporation shall be paid in lawful money of
the United States.

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