Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-22

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT c. KIRK,
President of the Senate.
Passed March 26, 1860.
mo 69.] AN ACT
Supplementary to the Act entitled san
Act to provide for the Organization
of Cities and incorporated Villages,
passed March IL, 1853.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted by the Gen
cral Assemblygf the State Of Ohio, That
for the purpose of purchasing land for a
cemetery, the council of any municipal
corporation, organized under the act to
which this act is supplementary, shall
have power to levy, in addition to the
taxes otherwise authorized by law to be
levied, upon the taxable property of
such municipal corporation, tax not
exceeding one-half of one mill on the
dollar, each year, during term Of not
exceeding six years, which tax shall be
collected in the same manner as other
taxes of such corporation, and the
money arising from such levy shall be
set apart exclusively for the purposes OF
said purchase; provide, the aggregate
amount levied for said purpose shall not
exceed FIVE thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. Whenever the council of any
municipal corporation, as aforesaid, shall
have passed an ordinance for the levy of
the taxes authorized by the foregoing
section, it shall be lawful for such coun-
ell to proceed to purchase land for a
cemetery, and may pledge to the vendor
thereof the money arising from said levy,
in payment, therefor, SO far as the same
shall be necessary, together with seventy
five per centum of the money accruing
from the sale by such corporation, OF
lots in such cemetery, as hereinafter
provided, and upon full payment to the
vendor, of the purchase money for said
land, said municipal corporatation may
receive from the vendor an absolute con-
Yeyance thereof.
SEC. 3. The council of any municipal
corporation which has purchased or may
hereafter purchase land for a cemetery
may cause the same to be laid out into
lots, avenues, alleys, or other subdivl-
sions, as shall be deemed expedient
which lots shall be numbered and the
avenues named, and plat thereof made
and kept in the Office Of the clerk OF re:
corder, for the use Of the public.
Sec. 4. For the purpose Of defraying
the expense of purchasing, improving
and embellisLing such cemetery, the
council of such municipal corporation
may sell at private SALE or public ven.
due. from time to time, such number o.
said lots, and upon such terms and con
ditions, as may be deemed advisable
and may cause to be executed to the
purchasers, of said lots such conveyance
as may be necessary to carry into effec
said contracts of sale, and said convey
ances shall, at the expense of those re
ceiving them, be recorded in a book tt
be kept for that purpose, by the clerk o.
recorder of such municipal corporation
SEC. 5. Seventy five per rcentum Of th'
purchase money arising from the sale o
said lots, shall be set apart, and applied
l to the payment of the purchase none.
dne to the vendor of said cemeter'
grounds, and to the repayment Of sucl
sums as may have been paid by snc'
municipal corporation under the pro
visions of this act, until the same shal
be fully discharged, and the residue Q
/ the money arising from said sales shall
be applied to defray the expenses OF i'm
proving and erabellishing said cemeter!!
grounds.
SEC. 6. The council of any municipa
corporation owning a cemetery, shall
have full power to pass all ordinance
necessary to carry into effect the pfovis
lions of this act or to regulate said Gem
etery, the Improvement of the same, an
: the burial of the dead therein, to defin
the tenure and conditions on which lot
therein shall be held, to protect sal
cemetery, and all fixtures thereon, an
to punish all violations of such ordinan
ces whether said cemetery be situate
t within OF without the limits of such col
; poration.