New Iberia enterprise and independent observer., 1917-03-10

/ the extension, Improvement. bettermeo.
and upkeeP Of any cemetery owned Dy
/ this Corporation, but for no other pur-
pose except that if there be any Of such
revenues of preceding years not SO used
the same may be incorporated n sal
! principal endowment funds. Provided
further that any donor Of propert-.
credits, funds, money or other things, tg
| the Association as part Of this enGow-
ment may prescribe that as much as tifty.
per cent of the annual revenues froc4 hz
donation shall be used for the improve
ment, repair and upkesp Of any pas.icn-
lar lot or grave therein, which said ioa-s
shall designate; and that not .ess tbza
! twenty-five per cent of the sa,5 annual
revenues shall be used for Tire general
improvement and upkeep Of the partica-
lar cemetery in which said lot or gra5e
is located. Should the said Trustees or
! Directors or any Of them, use, consent ~
or permit the use Of investment of any
Of the said principal endowment fund,
save as authorized in the articles Of this
| Charter, the same shall constitute miscou-
| duct in office, shall be a misuse of said
| funds and wrongful diversion Of same,
for which they shall be liable either to
said corporation, or to any party in in
| terest in said cemetery. Such Trustees
shall elect chairman a Secretary and a
Treasurer, and two Of such offices may be
held by the same Trustee.
They shall adopt such bylaws, rules
and regulations for their proceedings
and for the safeguarding and investment
of the funds committed to their charge.
as they may deem proper, and may re-
peal and alter same at pleasure.
ARTICLE XIV.
That said annual revenues from the
endowment tapd, or SO much thereof as
may be required to supplement the ordi-
nary revenues of this Association, in the
extension, improvement and upkeep of
said cemetery, and of any particular space
therein as provided special donations,
shall De turned over by said Trustees to
the said Board of Directors upon their
request, to be expended by them for
said purposes; provided that in so doing
they shall, to the proportion thereof,
stated in Article No. XIV hereof conform
to the wishes and conditions expressed
in the donation as well as to any other
!; terms consented to by this Association in
F accepting the gift or legacy. And the
said Board of Directors, through its
Treasurer, shall annually render to the
! said Trustees Ia copy of same to be read
to the said Association at its annual
meeting) a full and detailed account OF
the receipts and expenditures OF said
: Association, and particularly of any rev.
| enues of said endowment fund and Of
donations therein for particular lots of
spaces in said cemetery; and whenever
said trustees ascertain that any part of
said revenues of said endowment fund
have been expended for purposes other
than those to which they were dedi~
Gated they shall decline to deliver to said
Board of Directors any further revenues,
until said amounts are replaced, and are
expended in accordance with their dedi-
cation; and if this be not done within
three months after demand on said Trus-
tees, they may themselves expend for
said purpose the revenues of the partic-
ular donations, and shall add the other
revenues of that year to said endowment.
5 And the said Trustees shall render to
said Association at its regular meeting
in May of each year a full statement cf
said endowment, the method of its in
vestment its receipts and revenues, and
of what was done with the same.
Thus done and passed at my office in
the City of New Iberia, Parish of Iberia,
State of Louisiana, on the day of October
5 A. D. 1914, in the presence of W. L.
. Grant and J. G. Leblanc, good and
competent witnesses residing in this Par
{ ish, who have signed these presents with
the parties and me, Notary, after due
! reading of the whole
Witnesses:
i w. L. Grant
: J. G. Leblanc.
MARY LOUISE POMEROY,
MRS. EMILY L. GRANT,
H N. BROWN,
ELIZABETH DE VALCOURT,
NINA DE V. BARNARD,
MRS. J. C. ROBERTSON,
MRS. R. N. SMITH,
Per Mrs J. c. M. K.
u MRS. HELEN ROBERTSON,
4 Per Mrs. J. C. M. r.
R. D. SOUTHWELL,
E. S. FULTON,
HENRY A. KING,
MRS. S. L. FITZHUGH,
MRS. J. P. RUSSELL,
/ D. A. LONG,
C. E. SMEDES,
MARY C. SMEDES,
Il H. F. BELL,
! M. A. BELL,
A. B. MURRAY,
EMMIE A. DANIEL,
II MRS. GEO. M. ROBERTSON,
X. de v. CRAIG,
THEDA F. MURRAY,
F. HENDERSON,
L. HENDERSON,
JNO. r. TAYLOR,
i JOHN N. WEEKS.
EDWARD T. WEEKS,
VIM BAUMAN,
w. G. WEEKS