Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-12-02

burial grounds eat oil the charge OF the ce uetery
commissioners, and place the same under the
charge Of the selectmenS and whenever any
town shall vote TO take all its burial grounds
then under the charge of cemetery cem missd oaers
out of their charge the term of Office OF all such
commissioners in that town shall thereapon ter
inmate.
Sec 3 Said board Of commissioners may set
apart and appropriate such portion or portions Of
the burial ground or grounds under their charge
81 they shall deem proper, as burial place for
the burial of persons without charge therefor, UNI
der such regulations as the said commissioners
shall prescribe and they may lay out the re-
manning unoccupied portions of said burial
ground or grounds, in suitable lots or other sub
divisions for family or other burial places, with
all necessary paths, avenues, or other reserved
places, and may plant and embellish the same
with trees, shrubs, flowers, and other rural orna-
ments. Said board may make all necessary by
laws rules and regulations in respect to the said
burial ground or grounds, not inconsistent with
this act and the laws OF this State as they shall
deem expedlent. and ma alter and amend the
came, which bylaws, rules and regulations shall
be recorded in the town clerks Office. But no
bylaw, rule or regulation shall be adopted to re-
strain any person in the free exercise or enjoy
ment of his religious sentiments, with respect TO
the burial of the dead.
Sec. 3. Said board of commissioners shall
have authority for and in the name of the town,
10 grant and convey to any person, by deed du-
ly executed, any of the designated lots or sub
divisions of said burial ground or grounds, to be
used for the burial of the dead and on which
TO erect tdmbs, cenotaphs, and other monuments,
on such terms and conditions as they shall by
their bylaws, rules and regulations prescribe !;
and all such lots shall be exempt from attachment
or levy of execution. and free from taxation,
and such deeds shall be executed for and in the
name of the town, by one of said commissioners,
appointed by the board for that purpose.
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subdivisions in said burial ground, or grounds,
shall be paid into the town treasury, To be kept
separate from any other funds of said town, and
subject to the order OF said commissioners and
puch proceeds, and the income thereof, shall be
devoted to the Improvement and establishment
Of such burial ground or grounds. and keeping
the same in order, under the direction of such
commissioners forever.
IS The said board of commissioners are an
thorized to take and hold any grant, donation on
bequest OF property. upon trust, to apply the
same, or the income thereof, for the improve
ment or Establishment Of said burial ground, or
grounds, or any part thereof, or for the erection
repair, preservation or removal of any monu-
ment, fence or other erection in or around the
same, or ans part thereof, according to the terms
Of such grant, donation or bequest
S6. Any money SO received by said comms SIS
ioners, shall be invested by the town treasurer
under the direction OF the commissioners In mort
cages of real estate public stock, and all prop
orty received under the provisions of the fore
going section (uness other provision is made by
the terms of such grant, donation or bequest)
shall be in the charge of the town treasurer, sub
iect to the control and direction ofsaid commiss-
i0ners but shall always remain separate from, and
independent of, any other moneys or property be.
.ouging to the town and free from the control of
maid town, except through the commissioners
aforesaid and the income of such fund, or prop
grty, shall be received by said trea urer subject
80 the order of said commissioners, and shall be
appropriated by them in such manner as shall
IN their opinion. best promote the purposes for
which such grants, donations and requests are
made.
81. Said board of commissioners shall at each
annual town meeting make a written report to
the town of their acts and proceedings, and Of
the condition of the burial ground rgrOunds, so
placed in their charge, and said report shall con
tain an account OF their receipts and expendi
lures for the same, and the funds subject to their
order.
So. II any person wifully or maliciously de
face, injure or break down any grave stone or
monument, or other erection in any burial ground
so placed under the charge of said board of COM
missioners, or shall willfully and maliciously de-
face, injure or destroy any fence, tree or shrub
berry therein Or about the same, and shall do any
wilfull or malicious injury to any road, path or
avenue, or to any grave or lot therein designed
for burial, occupied, or shall, without license or
authority, willfully and maliciously dig up or
break off any root, plant, vine, flower, shrub or
tree, standing or growing within said burial
grounds. he shall be punt he'd by imprisonment
In the State Prison not exceeding five years, or
by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, nor
less than twenty dollars and such person shall
be further liable to an action on the case, upon
this statute, for damage, in the name of the own
er of the property so injured, or in the name of
said commissioners, and such damages when re-
covered by the commissioners, shall be expended
under their direction for the benefit Of the prop
erty so injured.
Approved Oct. 80. 1868,
No. M.--AN ACT in addition to section 70 chap
ter ~ of the general statutes, relating to Union
Districts.
1t is hereby enacted, &C.:
81 Section seventy three, chapter twenty
two of the general statutes, shall be amended by
adding the following words land such prllden-
tial committee shall have all the powers, and dis.
charge all the duties in relation to said school and
the school house or houses of such district, as
are prescribed to other prudential committees in
relation TO the school and school houses in their
respective DISTRICTS
Approved Oct. ~, 1868.
No. 25.-AN ACT irHamendment of section one
of chapter fifteen of the general statutes. enti-
tied, "Of towns and villages"
1t is hereby enacted &c:
81. Section one of chapter fifteen Of the gen.
sral statutes shall be so amended as to read as
follows:
Every male person of the age of twenty-one
years, whose list shall have been taken in any
town, at the annual assessment next preceding
any town meeting, shall during his residence in
such town be a legal voter in such town meeting
2. This act shall take effect from its pas
sage.
Approved Oct. 80, 1868.
No. 26.--As ACT in relation to the record of
marriages.
II Is hereby enacted &c: