Chap. 48.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 10, 1904,
entitled an act to make valid any disposition of property in perpetulty
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 ac-
cording to the terms of the grant, bequest, devise or gift, as amended and
re-enacted by an act approved February 20, 1906. {S B 71]

Approved February 16, 1918.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two of an act approved February tenth, nineteen hundred and four,
entitled an act to make valid any disposition of property in perpe-
tuity for the maintenance and care of cemeteries, cemetery lots,
monuments, and other erections, and authorizing cemetery compa-
nies 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general
assembly, approved February twenty, nineteen hundred and six, be
amended-and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 2. Any gift, grant, bequest, or devise from any one person
for any and all purposes named in section one shall not exceed ten
thousand dollars in value or amount, and any such gift, grant,
devise or bequest heretofore made not in excess of ten thousand
dollars shall be valid. And the aggregate amount and value of all
gifts, grants, bequests and devises which may be held for the
Improvement, repair or embellishment of any single lot in any cem-
etery or burial ground, including the monuments, tombs and vaults
therein, shall never exceed five thousand dollars at any one time.

gifts, grants, bequests and devises for such purposes in excess
of the amounts herein named shall be void. This act shall not be
construed as affecting any estate that has been distributed or settled
on the basis of the existing law.

Sec. 8. That the board of directors of any incorporated ceme-
tery company may by by-law establish a trusteeship for holding
and administering all funds paid to said cemetery company for per-
petual care of any lot or lots in the cemetery conducted by said com-
pany, and that said trusteeship, once established, shall only be
revoked, annulled or modified by and with the consent of the cir-
cult court within whose jurisdiction the said cemetery is situated.

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,