The North-Carolina standard., 1849-06-27
CPUBLIc-No. 59.l


.-..- TPUBLIc-No. SO. .
An Act to incorporate the Oak Hill Cemetery in the
.- District of Columbia. .
Be IL enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-
taces Of The United States Of -3neriea IN Congress
nJied, That Lorenzo Thomas, John Marbury, senior,
Edward M. Linthicum, and George Poe, jr., togeth-
erwth such other persons may become proprietors
of lots in the hereinafter mentioned cemetery, of
size less each than three hundred square feet and
their successors and assigns, be. and they made
hereby, body polite and corporate in law under the
name, style, and title of IS Fhe Oak Hill Cemetery
Company" and by that name shall be able, and ca
pable in law, to have and a common seal, to
and be sued, to plead and be impeaded, and to do all
such other things incident to corporation.
SEC. ?. .4nd be it further enacted, That the said
Lorenzo Thomas, John Marbury, senior, Edward NJ.
Linthicum, and George Poe, jr., shall be managers
of the said corporation, and shall continue be,
until the first Monday in June, in the year eighteen
hundred and 6fty-two, which day, and the same
day in every succeeding year thereafter, there shall
be general meeting of the propretors of lots in the
said cemetery, who are members of the said corpora
ton, of whom twenty, appearing In person or by
proxy, shall from quorum to transact all business
and at such meeting that day, in each and every
year the said propreors OF lots, each being entitled
to one vote, and more, shall elect four persons
from among their number to be managers OF the
said corporation for year, from the day of their cleo
uon and until other managers shall be duly elected
in their place; and if there shall from any what
sOever, be failure the part of the proprietors of
lots to make such election any of the days afore
said, the managers holding over shall appoint some
other time for proprietors Of lots to meet and make
such election, and shall give at least six days pre-
vous notice of the time and place so appointed, by
an advertisement, In some convenient newspaper, and
the managers then elected shall until the
renee of the regular election, and until others have
been elected in their places and In the event of any
vacancy in the board of managers by death, resgna
ton removal from the county, otherwise, the
tinung members of said board shall have power to
chose from among the proPretors of lots in the said
cemetery manager to fill such vacancy, and the per-
son so chosen shall have the power to act In the pre-
mises in connection with the continuing managers in
every respect if he had been originally appointed
said office by this act, or elected to the same by
the proprietors of lots at general meeting; and
majority of the said board OF managers Shall form
quorum to do all business. ...-.r -.
SEC. 3. And be ii further enacted, That the said
corporation may acquires take, and hold IN fee simple,
By gift grant, all that portion OF lot of ground in
Washington county, in the District of Columbia,
commonly called the Rock Of Dunbarton, which is
bounded on the south by the northern boundary line
of Georgetown, the west by lands OF Captain
William M. Boyce. on the north by Rock Creek,
and on the east by the lands of the heirs of Lewis
Grant Davidson, deceased, containing about fifteen
acres and any other lands adjacent thereto, not
ceeding in the whole fifty acres; and may take and
hold any personal estate, not exceeding thousand
dollars in value which said land and personal estate
shall be devoted and applied to purposes connected
with, and appropriate to the objects of cemetery
burial place. the establishing maintaining, and i'm
object for which said corporation is created.
SEC. 4. And be 1T further enacted, That the said
board of managers shall chose of their body
to be president thereof who shall be also president
of the said corporation. They shall have power to
appoint all officers and agents necessary for the due
and regular transaction of the business of said instl
luton, assign TO them seVeray, their duties, to
fix their compensation, and to require IT deemed ex-
pedient of any of their said officers, bond with aP
proved security for the faithful performance of their
duties. They shall have power to lay out and orna-
ment the cemetery grounds to erect all necessary en-
closures and buildings to lay out sell, and dispose
of burial lots; make such bylaws, rules and regu-
lations they may deem proper for conducting the
affairs of said company, for the government OF lot
holders and visitors to the cemetery and for the sale
and conveyance of lots in the said cemetery by ndi
vdual proprietors; and in general they shall have
the management, superlntendence, and care OF the
property expenditures, business and prudential con-
Germs of the said corporation, and they shall make
report of their dongs to the said corporation, at each
annual meeting of the said proprletors OF lots.
Sec. 5. .and be IL further enacted, That special
meetings. of the members of the said corporation for
the transaction of business may be called by the board
of managers, or by any five of such MEMBERS by ad-
Vertisement be inserted in some convenient news
paper, weeks before the day appointed for such
meeting, in which shall be set forth the time and
place, and object of such meeting.
Sec. g. find be it further enacted, That every lot
conveyed in said cemetery shall be held by the pro-
Petor thero for the purpose of sePuture only, and
for other purpose, and shall be deemed real estates
anu SHALL not De SuDJecL 10 the payment oI any asses
ment tax whatsoever, subject to execution or
attachment for any debt and the proceeds of the sal
ofbural lots in the said cemetery shall after deducng
the annual expenses of the cemetery establishment
applied solely to the Improvement extension, or
nament and preservation of the said cemetery, and
shall not be made source of profit the proprietors
Of lots or members Of said corporation SIT
SEC. 7. And be 1t further ehaeied, That any person
who shall unlawuly destroy, mutilae deface injure
or remove any tomb, monument, grave-stone 9TH
erstructure placed in the said cemetery any fence,
railing, or other work, for the protection ornament
OF any tomb, monnment grave stone, or other struc
ture aforesaid of any cemetery lot within the limits
Of the ground belonging to the said corporation,
OF the grounds set apart for the cemetery shall
unlawfully destroy, break, remove, cut, inue,
any tree, shrub plant, within the limits of said
cemetery; shall shoot or discharge any gun,