Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-09-22


AN ACT to incorporate the Mount Olivet
Cemetery Company, in the District of Co.
lumbia.
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled, That Edward A.
Knight, Charles J. White, and Charles ID.
Bowling, and their successors, be and they
are hereby created body polite and corpor-
ate by the name and title of ''the Mount Oil
vet 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 renew at pleasure, may associate
with them such other persons in said company
to any number not exceeding nine, may fill all
vacancies which may occur in their own body,
, and may from time to time ordaln 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.
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, that said
corporation may. acquire, hold, and dispose of
such estate, real, personal sand mixed, as may
be necessary or proper for the purposes of
said corporation: provided, the said corpora
ton shall not own at any one time more than
one hundred acres of land in the county of
Washington, and without the city of Wash
ington: and provided further, that at least
thirty acres in one body be set apart and used
for the purposes of cemetery.
Sect. 3. And be it further enacted, that
burial lots in said cemetery may be sold
leased, or otherwise disposed of by said cor
poration to the lot-holders, upon such condi-
tons and subject to such regulations as said
corporation or the board of managers may
prescribe, and a certificate under the seal of
said corporation, of the ownership or other
interest In any lot aforesaid, shall in all re-
spects have the same effect as any conveyance
from said corporation of said lot would have.
if executed, acknowledged, and recorded as
conveyances of real estate are required to be :;
which certificate shall be entered in a book
kept by said corporation for that purpose the
same to be open to the inspection of all per-
sons interested; and burial lots in said Gene
terry shall not be subject to the debts OF the
lot-holders thereof and the land eff the said
corporation dedicated to the purposes of a
cemetery shall not be subject to taxation of
any kind.
Sect. 4. And be it further enacted, that the
affairs of said corporation may be conducted
by such board of managers as the said cor
poration may ordain to be composed Of the
corporators, or any selected number thereof,
and such other persons as the said corpora
ton may elect.
Sect. 5. And be it further enacted, that no
streets, lanes, alleys, roads, or canals, of any
sort, shall be opened through the property of
said corporation exclusively appropriated and
used for the purposes of a cemetery: proyid-
ed, that nothing herein contained shall be so
construed as to authorize said corporation to
obstruct any public road, or street, or lane, or
alley, now actually opened and used as such
Sect 6. And be it further enacted, that any
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or detace, iniure or remove any tomb, monu-
ment, gravestone, or other structure or work
placed in said cemetery, or any fence, railing,
or work for protection or ornament Of said
cemetery, or any tomb, monument, grave
stone, or other structure OF work thereon, or
shall wilfully destroy, cut, break, or remove
any tree, shrub, or plant within the limits Of
said cemetery, shall be considered guilty OF
a misdemeanOr, and, on conviction thereof
before any magistrate or justice of the peace,
shall be punished by fine, at the discretion OF
the justice, according to the aggravation OF
the Ofiense, of not less than five nor more
than fifty dollars
Sect. 7. And be it further enacted, that said
corporation shall provide for the return, from
time to time, to the corporation Of Washing
ton, of reports Of all interments made in said
cemetery of persons who may have died
within the limits of the city of Washington,
in such manner as may be prescribed from
time to time by said corporation of Washing
ton.
Sect s. And be it further enacted that
nothing in this act shall be so construed as to
authorize said corporation to issue any note
token, device, scrip, or other evidence Of
debt, to be used as a currency; and each OF
the corporatOrs i'll said corporation shall be
held liable, in Ills individual capacity, for all
the debts and liabilities of said corporation
however contracted or incurred, to be recov.
cred by suit as other debts or liabilities before
the court or tribunal having jurisdiction, of Thu
case.
Sect. 8. And be it further enacted, that il
shall be lawful for congress, at any time here
after, to alter, amend, or repeal the foregoing
act. Approved, June 10, 1862.