The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-06-29
A N ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND
"A REOGDAIN SECTIONS q H. ANDl8 or
CHAPTER XIII. OF THE CITY 03Ei-
NANCES CONCERNING IuE I,II,X CEan

A OhDtNANCE TO AMEND AND
CHAPTER XIII. OF THE CITY oRDi.
NANCES CONCERNING The CITY GENE
TERiES. Passed June 81, 1870.
Richmond, That sections 2, 10, and is, OF chaStcg
twenty three OF the ordinances be and the same
hereby are amended SO as to read as follows:
OF July, appoint keeper for lakewood Cemetery
who shall take charge Of the same and keep Il In
order. The keeper shall act under the directions
of the committee; and the committee shall take
care that he performs bis duties and he negiecs
the same, the committee may remove him and sp-
Council the cause Of the removal II at anv tina
the said office Is vacant the committee NAV Mi
the vacancy; and the keeper so appointed shall
removed. The said keeper shall receive I'm iull
compensation for bis services salary of five
hundred dollars per annum, aud be entitled
to live free OF rent in the house on the premises
froptaed, hol0eyer, That no payments on &C
count OF salary shall be made to him until he shall
have made all reports or returns that may be re-
qitred OF him by this ordinance or by the Com
mttee on Cemeteries. The Super intendeat of the
Almshouse, having been made also keeper of the
ee EN- shall as such keeper
shall see that the said keeper performs his duties
and II he neglects the same the committee shalt
the dulles imposed upon him by this chap:er and
shall keep an account OF all moneys received by
him for burals, and of all expended by him In the
hire of hands and other necessary expenses Of the
said cemetery, and shall make monthly reports
thereof to the committee: which monthly reports
shall be consolidated quarterly and returned to the
Auditor. And at the time Of returning the said
consolidated quarterly report he shall pay to the
Chamberlain such sum as shall have bee received
by him for burials during the preceding quarter
after deducting the amount paid by him for the
hire OF hinds and other necessary expenses of the
cemetery.
-. No undertaken or other person shall move
the dead body Of any person who has died In the
city. and has not been buried, to any place beyond
the limits ofthe city, Of Its sanitary jurisdiction,
without procuring permit from Il member OF the
Board OF Health upon the aforesaid certificate
from the attending physician or coroner Nor
ehall any master, agent, or person having charge
OF or attached TO any steamboat sailing or other
vessel car, stage, or any other public or private
conveyance, convey. or allow to be conveyed tile
dead body Of any person who has died In the city,
to any place beyond the limits of the city, of It's
sanitary jurisdiction, without i permit as aiore-
said.
10. In case any physician or coroner shall refuse
neglect 10 furnish such certificate as aforesaid,
he shall forfeit and pay the sum OF five dollars for
each offence; and every undertaken, sexton, or
other person, removing the dead body OF any per-
sen, or who having charge Of any vault, buryiDg-
ground, or cemetery. steamboat, vessel, car,
stage, or any other public or private conveyance,
refuses or ncglects to perform any Of the duties
required by this ordinance shall forfeit and pay
for every such offence the sum Of twenty-five dol
lars. )eA-5t'