Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-06-29

been received by officers of the army shall be
charged to and accounted for by them. respec-
lively. -,- - ~
Approved March 3. 1s49.
[PUBLIc-No. 5S.l--An Act declaring Fort
Covington, in the State of New York, to be
port of delivery, and for other purposes.
Be ii enacted by the Senate and House Of Re
personalities Of the United States of america
in Congress assembled, That the town of Fort
Covington, in the State of New York, shall
be port OF delivery, and shall be subject to
the same regulations as other ports of delive-
ry in the United States.
SEC 2. And be it further enacted. That the
Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to
appoint deputy collector 10 reside at Chesa-
peake city, in the State of Maryland, 10 grant
enrolments and licenses to vessels Provided,
That the compensation of the said deputy col
ector shall be the usual fees of Office and moth
ing more.
Approved March 8, l849.
[PuBLIc-No. 5sl-An Act to incorporate
the Oak Hill Cemetery, in the District of
Columbia
Be at enacted by the Senate and House of Re.
presentattres Of the United States Of america
| tH OHSTeSS uSSEWOtSuS nat 1OIcnLO NOM"
as, John Marbury, senior, Edward NJ Linthi-
cum, and George Poe, jr, together with such
other persons as may become proprietors of
lots in the hereinafter mentioned cemetery, of
size not less each than three hundred square
feet, and their successors and assigns, be, AMI
they are made hereby, body polite and cor
porate in law, under the name, style, and title
of &c The Oak Hill Cemetery Company and
by that name shall be able, and capable in
law, to have and use common seal, to sue
and be sued, TO plead and be impleaded, and
10 do all such other things as are incident TO
corporation
Sec. 2. And be at further enacted, That the
said Lorenzo Thomas, John Marbury, senior,
Edward M. Linthicum, and George Poe, IT.,
shall be managers of the said corporation, and
shall continue so to be. until the first Monday
in June, in the year eighteen hundred and
ffty-two. on which day, and on 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 corporation, o: whom twenty. appearing
in person or by proxy, shall form quorum
10 transact all business ; and at such meeting
on that day. in each and every year. the said
propretors of lots, each being entitled to one
vote, and no more, shall elect four persons
from among their own number 10 be managers
of the said corporation for one year, from the
day of their election, and until other managers
shall be duly elected in their place and if
there shall, from any cause whatsoever, be
failure on the part of the proprietors of lots to
make such election on 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 previous notice Of the time and place
so appointed, by an advertisement, in some
convenient newspaper, and the managers then
/ elected shall serve until the recurrence of the
regular election, and until others have been
elected in their place; and in the event of any
vacancy in the board of managers by death,
resignation, removal from the county, or 9TH
erwise, the continuing members of the said
board shall have power TO choose from among
the proprietors of lots in the said cemetery a
manager TO fill such vacancy, and the person
so chosen shall have power to act in the prem
Uses, in connexion with the continuing mana
gers, in every respect as if he had been origi-
nally appointed to said Office by this act, or
elected 10 the same by the propretors of lots
at general meeting; and majority of the
said board of managers shall form quorum
to do all business.
Sec. 8 Andbe 1T further enacted, That the
said corporation may acquire, take, and hold,
in fee simple, by gift or 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 George
town, on the west by lands of Capt. William
M Boyce, on the north by Rock Creek. and
on the east by land of the heirs of Lewis Grant
Davidson, deceased, containing about fifteen
acres, and any other lands adjacent thereto,
not exceeding in the whole fifty acres and
may take and hold any personal estate, not
exceeding ten thousand dollars in value, which
said land and personal estate shall be devoted
and applied 10 purposes connected with, and
appropriate to the objects of a cemetery or bu-
rial place, the establishing, maintaining, and
improving of which is hereby declared to be
the only object for which said corporation is
created.
SEC 4. And be it further enacted, That the
said board of managers shall choose one OF
their own 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 institution,
; TO assign to them, severaly. their duties, 10
+ fix their compensation, and 10 require, if deem
: ed expedient. of any of their said officers.
J bond with approve security for the faithful
performance of their duties. They shall have
! power 10 lay out and ornament the cemetery
? grounds; to erect all necessary enclosures
+. and buildings 10 lay out. sell. and dispose Of
+ burial lots; to make such bylaws, rules and
P regulations as they may deem proper for con-
4: Quoting the affairs of said company, for the
! government of lot-hoiders and visitors to the
d cemetery; and for the sale and conveyance oil
lots in the said cemetery by individual proPrie'
tors and in general they shall have the man
!, agement. superintendent, and care OF the
& property. expenditures. business, and pruden'
o tial concerns of the said corporation. and they
e shall make report of their doings to the SAID
), corporation at each annual meeting OF the salt
) oprietors of lots.
Il SEC. S. And Be IL further enacted. Tia
!. special meetings of the members Of the 'sait
= corporation for the transaction of business
d may be called by the board Of managers, o
!. by any Eve OF such members. by advertise
e ment to be inserted in some convenient news
u paper, two weeks before the day appoints