Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-01-10
AN ORDINANCE Regula-
ting the Disposition Of the
lots, and general manage
ment Of the Ypsilanti Gem

tOtS, ara general manage
mont Of the Ypsilanti Cen,
etery.
BE II orda ined by The common Counci
of the Village of Ypsilanii:-
LIST That the burial Ground on the cas-
eide Of the Huron River, belonging to saic
village. shall be depomina,ed the YpsiIan
ii Cemetery.
ID The first tier If lots on the wesi
side Of said Cemetery as recently survey
ed, siaked and plated by Samuel Petit
bone, under the direction Of the common
Council Of said village, shall be set apart
from the ground appropriated BY this ordi-
nance 10 barial nlaces for the dead, and
ss4l., a.; the az. adiuuiag
said first teir Of lots on the east be added
10 the alIev on the west side Of said Gem.
etery; aad the plat of SAID cemetery, now
belonging to said village, and deposited
with the recorder, shall be so altered, as
TO correspond with the alteration of said
cemetery, required by this section; or
new plat obtained, which shall CORES.
pond with. said cemetery, so altered as
aforesaid.
Sd The dead bodies which have been
buried in said first teIr Of lots, shall be
disintered, under the direction of the CON-
mon council, who shall have power in all
cases. where any burials are now made.
in such places in said cemetery, as will
interfere with the plating. and the i'm
provements thereof, as contemplated by
this ordinance to direct a removal of such |
burials, to such lots in said cemetery, as
to them shall seem proper! But nothing
IN this ordinance shall be construed 10 |
preclude any person or persons interested
in such burial places, from removing un-
der the direction of the sexton their own
dead, or from purchasing. either at public
or private sale, any lot or lots of said Gem
@tery, for burial places for their dead
and for this purpose, the said common
council shall direct, that such reasonable
notice, as circumstances will permit, be
given to any person or persons, who may
be interested in such burial places. of the
intention to remove the dead bodies there
of: and a like notice Of the time and place
of the frs, public sale of the lots of said
cemetery, required by the provisions of
this ordinance. Il
4lh All the lots of said cemetery, be- {
inc fourteen feet in width, by twenty-three t
feet in length. as siaked on the ground, I
and laid out on the plat aforesaid, lexcep- I
;pa he first teir of lots set apart as afore- G
sand. to form part OF the front alley,) shall t
be estimated by, or under the direction of
the said common council, who shall fix /
minimum price. upon each and every d
such lot: which price shall be laid, accor- t
dins to the value of the lots respectively 81
The various and probable circumstances a
Of the citizens of said village, now and ia
and the nature and extent OF the Sc
to be bestowed upon said Pr
as contemplated by this ordi. pr
nance. "
9Th The lots Of said cemetery, so pricS
d as aforesaid, Preserving therefrom such or
OTIS as are already occupied as burial by
laces of the dead, where the dead bodies to
ave been so buried, as not TO require tn
;s;n,erment and removal under the pro. TIT
s;ops of this ordinance) shall, at such lot
me- ar times, within the space OF two the
on,hs from the date of this ordinance. er
ID at such time or times thereafter as the obi
ID common council shall deem proper, lot
offered for sale, at public auction, TO sha
sold by the single lot, to the highest be
dders respectively, for a sum not less, Of