Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-07-17
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LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the second Session OF the Thirty
seventh Congress.
1PUBLIC--No. S5. !

AN ACI to incorporate the Mount Ol-
ivet Cemetery Company, in the Dis.
trict of Columbia.
BE enacted 5y ti. Senate and House Of Repre-
sent1tires Of the Uiaitei States Of An,eriea IN Con-
gress assembled, That Edward A. Knight
Charles j. White, and Charles ID. Bow.
ling, and their successors, be and they
are hereby created a body polite and
corporate by the name and title of
the Mount Olivct Cemetery Compa-
ny" and by that name may have per.
petual succession, may sue and he
sued in the courts of law and equity,
and other competent tribunals, may
have and use a common seal, and the
same may destroy, alter, and renew
at pleasure, may associate with them
such other persons in said company to
any number not exceeding nine, may
lill all vacancies which may occur in
their own body, and may from time to
time ordain such bylaws, not incon-
sistent with the laws in force in the
District of Columbia, as they may
deem necessary or proper for said
company.
SEC. 2. And be IL further enacted, That
said corporation may acquire, hold
and dispose of such estate, real, per-
sonal, and mixed, as may be neccssa-
ry or proper for the purposes of said
corporation Prorided, The said corr
poration shall not own at any one
time more than one hundred acres of
land in the county of Washington,
and without the limits of the city
Washington lind prorided further,
That at least thirty acres in one body
be set apart and used for the purposes
OF cemtery. .... .
SEC. 3. Aad be IL further enacted, That
burial lots in said cemetery may be
sold, leased or otherwise disposed of
by said corporation to the lot-holders,
upon such conditions and subject to
such regulations as said corporation or
the board Of managers may prescribe,
and certificate under the seal of said
corporation, of the ownership or other
interest in any lot aforesaid, shall in
all respects have the same effect as
any conveyance from said corporation
OF said lot would have, if executed,
acknowledged, and recorded as con-
veyances OF real estate are required
by law to be which certificate shall
be entered in book kept by said cor
poration for that purpose, the same to
be open to the inspection OF all per-
sons interested and burial lots in
said cemetery shall not be subject to
the debts of the lot-holders thereof,
and the land of tho said corporation
dedicated to the purposes of a ceme-
terry shall not be subject to taxation
of any kind.
SEC. 4. And be 1t further enacted, That
the affairs of said corporation may be
conducted by such board of managers
as the said corporation may ordain,
to be composed of tho corporators, or
any selected number thereof, and such
other persons as the said corporation
may elect.
SEC. 5. And be t further enacted, That
no streets. lanes, alleys, roads, or Ca
nails, of any sort, shall be opened
through the property of said corpora
tion exclusively appropriated and
used for the purposes OF cemete.
ry Prorided, That nothing herein
contained shall be so construed as to
authorize said corporation to obstrucl
any public road or street, or lane, ol
alley now actually opened and used
gs such.
SEC. 6. And be IL further enaatcR, That
any person who shall wilfully destroy
mutilate or dcface, injure or remove
any tomb, monument, gravestone, Oh
other structure or work placed in said
cemetery, or any fence, railing. OF
work for protection or ornament o
said cemetery, or any tomb, monu
ment, gravestone, or other structure
or work thereon, OR shall wilfully de
stroy, cut, break, or remove any tree
shrub, or plant, within the limits OF
said cemetery, shall be considered
guilty of misdemeanor, and, on con