Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-27
AN ACT
For the Improvement and Bet
ter Preservation of the
City Cemetery.

GECTION1 ]. Be it enacted by the Mayor and
- City Council of Nashville, That owing "a
neglect ard want of proper attention, our City
Cemetery Is fast going TO decay and ruin. and
without prompt and immediate attention, IL
will soon be in Sucn a condition that the graVeSOi
the dead in portions OF the Cemetery viii be en-
tirely Oblterated by frequent OyerfiOws and
rapid underground, so as to be lost 10 view; that
for the sake OF humanity and proper respect To
the dead, it Is the duty OF the living TO protect
and hold sacred from desecratiOn their last rest
ing place.
Sec. . That from an after the adoption and
approval of this ordinance no interments shall
be permitted 20 be made in the City Cemetery,
except within lots therein owned by private in
dividuals and b. owners thereof or with their
permission.
Sec. 3. That after the expiration of the pres
ent incumbent, OF upon vacancy occurring in
the office by death, resignation, removal, OF
otherwise, the Sexton of the City Cemetery
shall receive and pay to the corporation MONTH
" all moneys received by him ~ fees under the
ordinances regulating the collection of fees for
digging and furnishing graves, and thereafter
the said Sexton shall FOR his services and Heces-
Sary expenditures in the employment Of LAHORE rs
and assistants, he allowed compensation at the
rate of Eight Hundred Dollars per annum, pay
able monthly, and the use Of the ScNtuH's
house, As at present.
Sec. 4. The Committee on the City Cemetery
shall have power TO cause all deCayCd. uusiyhtlv
and improper fences, Pailngs, or other en-
closures, to be removed from around private
lots in the City Cemetery, and IL shall be the
duty of the Sexton TO remove the same under
authority of said committee.
Sec. s. 1t shall be the duty Of the Sexton, in
addition to the duties now prescribed to him 10y
law, and by chapter 3 of the Jity OrdinarcCs,
as published in the City Digest. 1872, TO clear
away all such trees and shTubbery and other un-
derCrOwth as NAV be designated by the Com
mittee on the " Cemetery, and to cause rock
and gravel TO be spread upon the streets, ave
nues and walks when furnished by the city I'M
der direction of the committee.
Sec. 8. II shall be the duty Of the Sexton to
ascertain, as far as possible, the relations and
friends of persons inferred in the Cemetery,
whose tombstOnes, monuments, or vaults, may,
at any time, be falling into decay, and 20 cause
such persons TO he notified personally or by let
ter. TO the end that such monuments. etc, OF
the dead may be restored and preserved.
Sec. :. That the City Engineer, as soon a
practicable, shall ascertain and establish the
proper drainage for that part of tn Cemetery
that is now subject 10 overflow, AMI that he VIII
instruct the Sexton as to the proper grades OF
the several avenues, streets, and walks iOr the
better preservation OF the grounds.
See. s. The sum of 81 200 is hereby apprOpri-
ated, 70 be paid out OF any money in the City
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, TO be eN-
pended, or 30 much thereof rs may be necessary
by the Committee ON the Cemetery, in the clean
ing mp and restoration of said Cemetery to prop
er order and condition at the present time.
Approved June 9, 1874.
1t THOMAS A. KERCHEVAL, Mayor.