Chap. 47.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved Feb-
ruary 10, 1904, entitled “an act to make valid any disposition of property
in perpetuity for the maintenance- or care of cemeteries, cemetery lots.
monuments, and other erections, and authorizing cemetery companies and
trustees holding title to cemeteries or burial grounds to take and hold any
property according to the terms of the grant, bequest, devise or gift.”

Approved February 20, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section two
of an act approved FeLruary tenth, nineteen hundred and four, entitled
‘fan act to make valid any disposition of property in perpetuity for the
maintenance and care of cemeteries, cemetery lots, monuments and other
erections, and authorizing temetery companies or trustees holding title to
cemeteries or burial grounds to take and hold any property according to
the term of the grant, bequest, devise or gift,” be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows: -

§2. Any gift, grant, bequest or devise from any one person for any and
all purposes named in section one shall not excced one thousand dollars
in value or amount. And the aggregate amount and value of all yifts,
grants, bequests and devises which may be held for the improvement, re-
pair or embellishment of any single lot in any cemetery or burial ground,
including the monuments, tombs, and vaults therein, shall never exceed
one thousand dollars at any one time. All gifts, grants, bequests, and
devises for such purposes in excess of the amount herein named shall be
void.

Nothing herein contained shall be construed as limiting the amount
which may be given, bequeathed or devised to defray the original cost of
the cemetery, burial lot, monument, vault, or like erection or structure.