The daily Alaskan., 1910-04-08
ORDINANCE H0 U6

An Ordinance to establish a public | cemetery for the Town of SkagWay,
 Alaska, provide for the regulation and
 maintenance thereof and for other ! purposes.
 The Town of Skagway, Alaska, by ! its Common Council does Ordatn as l follows:
 SECTION I. That there is hereby created and established for the Town | of Skagway. a public cemetery. The said cemetery shall include all t-e ! land embraced within the following de- ! Scribed boundary lines
 l Commencing at Corner One llD run ming thence in a North West dlrec- ! ton $50 chains to Corner Two l2) | thence in a North East direction lt,l9 chains Go Corner Three l3) thence ! in a South East direction SIP chains : to Corner Four l4 lbeiug also Cor uer Four l+ of the '. s. Military ! Reserve. Survey No. 177) thence in . a South West direction l2.27 chains ! 10 Corner One CD the point of begin ming. as shown by the survey of said ! cemetery made by Hill and WeJtrick, Surveyors. in 1908 and said boundary lines are hereby established as the boundary lines Of the said public cemetery.
 . SECTION ?. Said cemetery shall be known as The SkaEway Public . Cemetery"
 SECTION 8. The plat and map of the said cemetery made by V. l.
 Hahn on he 30th day of September
 1909. are hereby designated as the
 official plat and map of the Skagway Public Cemetery, and all lots or other tracts therein, sold or otherwise dis posed of by the Town of Skagway,
 shall be bounded as described on the
 aforesaid official plat and map
 SECTION 4. There is hereby es
 tabliShed a Cemetery Board, which shall consist of the bX-Officio Mayor,
 the Chairman of the Committee on
 Ways and Means and the Chairman of the Committee on Health and Pol
 ice. who shall all of them be members of the Cemetery Board eN-ottlclO.
 SECTION 3. The Cemetery Board. shall have entire charge of the S6ag-
 .F responsible for the enforcement of all the regulations provided for in this Ordinance.
 SECTION 6. All lots in said cem- etery. with the exceptions hereinafter provided for. shall be sold by the Town of Sbagway at the rate Of Ten
 101 Dollars each. and the undertaken or other. person having charge of the
 burial of any corpse. shall. not later
 than ten days after such burial. pay the same to the Town Treasurer, who shall issue a Teuolu. therefor, show ing the numbers of the block and loJ
 the amount and date of payment, provided that no payment shall be required for more than one burial m any one lot.
 SECTION 2. The following blocks in the Cemetery shall be reserved
 by the Town of Skagway. Blocks Noss Sixteen l16) and seventeen ll,l. Any c0rpses which have Go be buried at the expense of the Town of SkagWay shall be inferred therein, and the un- dertakgr or other person having charge of such burial shall not be re- quired to pay 10 the Town Treasurer the sum provided for in Section 6.
 SECTION $. All fences erected around lots in the said Cemetery shall be of the dimensions and design ap- proved by the Cemetery Board.
 SECTION 9. All graves dug shall be subject Co the approval of the Street Commissioner and t shall be his duty to see that each grave IS Of a reasonable depth. that ir lies entire Iy within the boundaries of the lot designated by the undertaken or oJhgr person having charge of the burial and that. after the burial is completed. the grave is filled and all debris re- moved beyond the boundaries of the said cemetery.
 SECTION 10. The Town Clerk shall provide a record designed to
 show the names of all persons buried in the said Cemetery. the numbers of the lot and block used, the date of iutermeut. the name of the undertaken or other person having charge of the
 burial. and the number of the Certlti-
 cate of the death of said person as shown in the Birth and Death Record provided for in Ordinance No. S6- of the Town of Skagway. The Town . Clerk shall from time to time enter in . the said record the above mentioned data whenever any burial has taken
 place. The record shall be kept in the office of the Town Treasurer and shall be open for public inspection during his office hours.
 SECTION II. The Town Clerk shall provide each undertaken in the town of Skagway with a blue print of the official plat and map of the said cemetery.
 ! SECTION 12. The Town Treasur- CT shall include all monies received from the sale of lots in the said cem- etery with the general fund. but he shall on the first day of each month
 furnish to the Town Clerk a list of
 the lots sold during the preceding month. showing the numbers of said . lots and of the blocks containing them and the amounts received therefor. . It shall be the duty of the Town ! Clerk to keep record in his : books of said amounts and also ! of the amounts eEpgudal for the 1 maintenance of the said cemetery l The Cemetery Board shall have