Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-11-26

No 25.--An Act in addition to Chapter eighteen
Of tho General Statutes entitled !" Of public bu-
rial grounds aud Their enlargement
IL Is hereby enacted, de-;
Sec. !. If any town shall 1T a meeting duly
warned Tor that purpose, vote to place the public
burial grounds ofsUeh town, or any one or more
of the same under the charge and sllperintendence
OF cemetery commissioners, instead of seiectAaen,
said town SHALL at such meeting proceed to elect
separately, q board consisting Of FIVE cemetery
commissioners, who shall thereafter have the
whole care, superintendent and management of
such burial ground or grounds, one member of
which board shall go out of office at the annual
March town meeting in each wear, and one meme
per snail, ~ the same time, be annually elected
IN the place of the member so going out OF Office
which member elected shall hold his office for
the term OF five years The terms for which the
several members Of the first board of commissions
ers IN any town shall respectively hold their Office
snail be as follows
me commissioner first chosen shall hold his
once ior hve years the commissioner next ehos-
en- snail hold his office for four years the COM
mis- sioner next chosen shall hold his office for
three years the commissioner next chosen shall
hold his office for two years and the commissions
er next chosen shall hold his Office for one year
In case OF vac dcy in said board of commits
soners nom any cause, the remaining members
of said board shall elect commissioner to I'll
such vacancy, and the commissioner so elected
shall hold his Office for tho residue of the term
ior wAieh the commissioner, whose Office has so
become vacant, was elected.
Any town may by vote, at q meeting duly warm
ed for that purpose, take any or eli OF its burial
grounds out OF the charge of the cemetery conn.,
missloncrs, and place the same under the charge
OF the selectmcn; and whenever any town shall
vote TO take all of its burial grounds then under
the charge OF cemetery commissioners out OF
their charge, the term of office of all such COM
mlssioners in that town shall thereupon termin-
ate.
Sec. z Said board of commissioners NAV set
aPh,s ahe appropriate such portion Or portions of
tne ohrial ground or grounds placed under their
charge, as they shall deem proper, as a burial
place for the burial of persons without charge
therefor, under such regulations as the said eor-
missoners shall prescribe and they NAV Law out
the remaining unoccupied portions of said burial
ground OF grounds, in suitable lots or other sub
divisions Tor family other burial Places with all
necessary paths, avenues, other reserved places
and may plant and embellsh the same with trees
SHRUBS, flowers, and other rural ornaments. Said
board may make all necessary bylaws, rules and
regulations IN respect to said burial ground, or
grounds not inconsistent with this act and the
laws OF TINS state, as they shall diem expedient,
ana may alter and amend the same, which by
laws, rules and regulations shall be recorded in
the town clerks office. But no by-law rule or
regulation shall be adopted to restrain anv person
IN the iree exercise and enjoy ment of his religious
ssntmehts WITH respect to the burial of the dead.
Sec. 5. Said board of commiss oners shall have
authority Tor and III the name of the town to
grant and convey TO any person, by deed duly ex-
eeuted any OF the designated lots subdivisions
OF said burial ground, grounds, to be used for
the burial OF the dead and on which TO erect
tombs, cenotaphs, and other monuments, on such
terms and conditions as they shall by their by
laws, rules and regulations prescribe and al
such lots shall be exempt from attachment or levy
Of execution, and free from taxation, and such
deeds shall re executed for and in the name of III
town, by one OF said commissioners, appointed
the board for that purpose.
Sec. 4. The proceeds of the sale Of lots or other
subdivisions in said burial ground, or grounds,
shall pc paid into the town treasury, 10 be kept
separate from any other funds Of said town, and
subject to the order Of said commissioners and
UGH proceeds, and the income thereof, shall be
~ voted TO the improvement and establishment of
eh burial ground, or grounds, and keeping the