Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-08-20
RULES GOVERNING FAIR
VIEW CEMETERY.
NAME AND OWNERSHIP.

place shall lie" Fdirrier Cemdery,"
and the title and ownership shall vest,
and the control always be and remain,
in the St. Sohn's Evangelical Lutheran
Church, of Millheim, Pa.
RULES AND ORDINANCES.
1st. Any person OF persons, without
regard to church relations or preference
es, may purchase family burial lots, or
spaces for single graves, in this ceme-
terry; and the established rules and or.
dinances shall govern alike
End. The cemetery shall be laid out
in family burial lots of various dimen-
SONS, with suitable walks and drives,
and the prices Of the lots respectively
shall he fixed according to size and 10
cality.
3rd. The church council shall annu-
ally appoint superintendent who shall
haye the general charge and oversight
Of the grounds and improvements, un-
der the direction Of the council. He
shall keep q complete record of the
names, ages and locations Of all inter-
ments made.
ADMITTANCE AND CONDUCT OF VISIT
ORs.
1st. The gates will I've opened for the
admission of visitors at 10 o'clock, A.
NJ, of every Sunday-except during in
clement weather-and closed at s u. M.
through the summer months, and L.
NJ, during the winter months.
2ud. Carriages will be admitted TO
the grounds, but shall not be driven
through them faster than walk nor off
the roads.
3rd. All persons are forbidden to
bring refreshments upon the grounds.
4th. All persons are forbidden TO
pluck flowers, or to break or injure any
tree, shrub or plant, to discharge any
fire arms, to write upon, deface, break
or injure any monument, tombstone,
fence, railing or other structure within
the enclosure of the grounds of this
cemetery under such penalties as are
prescribed by the Acts of Assembly.
5th. Children shall not be admitted
unless accompanied by some adult per-
son, who i'm all cases will be held respon-
sible for theil conduct.
9th. Persons making unseemly nois-
eS. or otherwise conducting themselves
indecorously, will be required to leave
the g, ,ound forthwith.
7th. All visitors arerequired to keep
on the roads and walks, and are forbid
den to enter the enclosures.
ENCLOSURES, USE AND EMBELLISH-
MENTS OF LOTS.
1st. In the digging of graves, erec-
tions Of walls, ratings and ornaments,
in building vaults and making repairs,
workmen and others will be required to
conform to the direction Of the Super
intendent as to boundaries and as TO
the deposit and removal Of earth and
stone excavated.
End. Lot owners shall not raise the
level of their lots more than three inch
es above the highest point of the sur
rounding roads, nor enclose the m with
wooden fences or ratings.
3rd. No grave shall be dug nearer
than one foot to the line of any lot at
the head of such grave, nor nearer
than six inches at the sides.
4th. Lot owners may, according to
their taste and judgment, plant trees
or shrubbery on their lots, under the
direction of the Superintendent as to
the kind of trees and shrubbery and
otherwise improve and embellish the
same. But the impi ovements and en-
bellishments shall not be of such char
acter as to encroach on the drives or
walks, or interfere with the grounds of
adjoining lot holders.
5th. Lots or places for single graves
in this cemetery shall not be used for
any other purpose than for the inter
ment of human beings. The owner OF
a lot may allow to be buried thereon
any person not member of his family
or kin provided the same be done with
out compensation. The owner of lot
shall not transfer or resell the same to
any person whatsoever, without the
consent of the church council first had
and obtained.
9th. The church council reserves the
right of removing any offensive or i'm
proper inscription or sculpture or re-
move such trees as by reason of their
roots, branches or decay become un-
slightly, detrimental, or dangerous-and
of the fact in each and every such case
the council and Superintendent shall
be the exclusive and final judges.
7th. No improvements nor inter-
ments shall be made upon any family
lots, nor upon any lots set apart for
single graves, before the purchase mon
ey shall have been fully paid.
Sth. Lot owners may be required
once In each year or oftener, if the Su-
perintendent deems it necessary, to
NOW their lots and remove the grass OIL
the cemetery grounds.
9th. The church council shall set a
part such lot or lots as in their Judg-
ment may seem necessary for single
graves, which shall in all cases be dug
contigously according TO size. The
price for such single graves shall be as
follows: Over five feet in length-Gye
dollars three to five feet in length
two dollars: under three feet in length
two dollars.
10th. Persons may, at their option,
haye graves dug by pall-bearers, or by
the Superintendent. LII dug and pre-
pared by the latter he shall be paid
such reasonable compensation as may
be agreed upon By the parties concern
ed.
l1th. All payments for family lots
and single graves ,as we'll as all moneys
due the cemetery from any source, shall
be paid to the Treasurer of the church
council, who shall receipt for the same,
stating specifically for what the same
was received.
10Th. These rules and ordinances
may be changed or amended whenever
in the opinion of the council it may be
necessary: Provided that no such pro-
posed change shall conflict with the
charter of the congregation, nor with
the article herein under the heading OF
"Name and Ownership" nor with the
first rule under the heading of "Rules
and Ordinances" And provided furth-
er that no such change or amendmen0
shall be finally acted upon at the same