The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-06-28
o FFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Second Session of the Thirty
seventh Congress.
TPUBLIC- No. s5 I

[PUBLIC-No. 65
AN ACT to incorporate the Mount Olivet
Cemetery Company, in the District of
Columbia
BE IL enacted By the Senate and House of
Representatives. Of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, That Ed
ward A. knight, Charles ]. White, and
Charles D. Bowling, and their successors,
be and they are hereby created body poll
tic and corporate by name and title of " the
Mount Olivet Cemetery Company" and by
that name may have perpetual succession,
may sue and be 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
sucl other persons in said comPaHhty4 TO any
number not exceeding nine, may fill all va
cances which may occur in their own
body, and may from time to time ordain
such by-laws, not inconsistent with the laws
in force in the District of Columbia, as they
may deem necessary or proper for said
company. Fo
See. 2. And be 1t further enG ted, That
said corporation may acquire, hold, and
dlsposef of such estate, real, personal, and
mixed, as may be necessary or proper for
the purpose of SAID corporation: Provided,
The said corporation 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 of Washing
ton: And proUided further, That at least
thirty acres in one body be set apart and
used for the purposes of a cemetery.
Sec. 3. ARd be IL further enaeted, That
burial lots in said cemetery may be sold,
leased, or otherwise disposed of by said cor
poration TO the lot-holders, upon such con-
ditions 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 effects as any
conveyance from said corporation of said
lot would have, if executed Acknowledged,
| and recorded as conveyanees of real estate
are required by law to be; which certifi-
cate shall be entered in book kept by said
corporation for that purpose, the same 10 be
| open to the inspection OF all persons inter-
| ested and burial lots in said cemetery shall
not be subject to the debts OF the lot hold
| ers thereof, and the land of the said corpo-
ration dedicated to the purposes of ceme-
terry shall not be subject TO taxation of. any
kind.
Sec. d. And be 1t further enacted, That
| the affairs of said corporation may be con-
| Quoted by such board of MANAGERS as the
| said corporation may ordain, to be COM
| posed of the corporators, or any selected
number thereof, and such other persons as
SEC. s. ARd be it further enacted That
no streets, lanes, alleys, roads or canals, of
auy sort, shall be opened through the prop
erty of said corporation exclusively appro-
/ nronriateC and used for the purposes of a
cemeterv: Provided, That nothing herein
contained shall be so construed as to author
| ize said corporation TO obstruct any public
road or street, or lane, or alley now actually
opened and used as such.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That
anv nerstn who shall wiltully destroy, mu-
tilate or deface, inl lure or remove any tomb,
monument, gravestone, or other structure
! or work placed in said cemetery, or any
fence. railing, or work for protection or or
naunent of said cemetery, or any tomb,
monument, gravestone, or other structure
or Uork thereon, or shall wilfully destroy,
ont break. or remove any tree, shrub, or
DIant within the limits of said cemetery,
shall be considered guilty of a misdemean-
or and on conviction thereof before any
magistrate or Justice of the peace, shall be
nnnished by fine, at the discretion of the
iustice according to the aggravation of the
offence of not less than five nor more than
Sec. 7. Arsd be it further enacted, That
the said corporation shall provide for the
return. from time to time, to the Corpora
ton of Washington, of reports of all inter
ments made in said cemetery of persons
who may have died within the limits of the
city of Washington, in such manner as may
be preserihed from time to time by said
CORPORATION of Washington.
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