The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-27
BURIED THREE DEEP,
Startling Assertion Made
by Attorney Charles
Hubb.
RICHMOND CEMETERIES.
The Fight Against Burials in
the City Limits Still
Continues.
PROPERTY-OWNERS TO CONVENE
Resolutions Will Be Drawn Up and
Placed Before the Board of
Supervisors.
PRoPERTY-owNERs TO CONVENE

The Richmond District Property owners
Association will convene next Thursday
for the purpose of placing resolutions re-
garding the burial of the dead in ceme-
teries adjacent to Richmond District before
Board of Supervisors. The resolutions
read as follows:
WHEREAS The unlimited burial of the dead
within the City and County of San Francisco
is dangerous to life and detrimental to the
health of the public; and whereas, the right of
those who have already purchased lots or
plots for their own use or for the use OF their
families in the said cemeteries in the City and
County OF San Francisco be recognized, there
fore, be it resolved,
SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful, after
the passage of this resolution, for any person,
association or corporation to hereafter within
the limits OF the City and County of San
Francisco, purchase, acquire, SELL lease. OF in
any land situated therein for the purpose of
interring any human body. or any portion
OF any human body, except In such
lots or plots as may have been already pur-
chased by parties for their own use, or the use
OF their families, provided the said lots shall
not be used for general interment purposes.
Sec. 2. Any person or persons violating any
OF the provisions OF this order shall be deemed
guilty OF misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine of not
less than 500 nor more than $500, or impris-
such tine and imprisonment.
Sec. 3. Any and all ordinances or orders in
conflict herewith are hereby repealed. This
order shall be in force from and after its pas
sage.
Attorney Charles Hub, president of the
Richmond Association. yesterday said:
If this resolution should be passed upon and
adopted by the Board of Supervisors it would
benefit and protect not only the health of the
whole City, but also the owners OF property adj
jacent to the cemeteries and the owners of
lots and plots within the cemeteries. Accord
ing to the California Reports, book AZ page
554, the municipal corporations may provide
for the removal OF cemeteries from the center
of population as q police regulation, and also
order 1861, passed by the Board of Super
visors on March Is, 1883, states that the burial
OF the dead is designated as dangerous to life
and detrimental TO pubic health, put e1-
aries of the City, wherein the burial OF bodies
shall be unlawful.
If the burial of the dead be dangerous
to life and detrimental to public health in
any other part of the City, why shouldn't
it be in the Richmond district? To show
that the land in the cemeteries inside
the City limits could and should be sold for
other purposes-as nursery, for instance,
which would be very profitable-I would refer
them to section 615 in the statutes OF Cali
fornia on page 81 and approved March 4,
1889, which states that cemetery corporations
may sell lands held by them upon obtaining
an order for that purpose from the Superior
Court OF the county Wnere the IanOS are STU
ated. Before making the order proof must be
made to the satisfaction OF the court that no.
tice of the application tor leave to sell has
been given by publication in such manner
and for such time as the court has directed.
and that the lands are not acquired for and
are not in use for burial purposes, and thai ii
is for the interest of the corporation that such
lands be sold.
The application must be made by petition
and any member of the corporation may op.
pose the granting of the order by affidavit OF
otherwise. Also in the statutes of California
of 1891, page 264, section ID, reads as follows
Whenever all the bodies buried in any lot OF
plot shall have been removed therefrom with the
consent of the majority OF the board Of directors
the corporation owning said cemetery, it shall be-
lawful for the of said lot plot, with the
consent of the directors, to transfer the same BY
deed.
The cemeteries in this district are now full
to overlooking and the walks and drives, il
some places, have been narrowed and cu
down to make room for more bodies, and it has
been noticed that among the poorer classes the
dead bodies have been buried one upon the
other sometimes three deep.
We are in great hopes that our resolution!
will be adopted by the board