Year: 1866

And provided further, That at least thirty acres
in body be set apart and used for the purposes
| of a cemetery.


| SEC g. And be it further enacted That burial
! lots in said cemetery may be sold, leased, or
otherwise disposed of by said corporation to the
| lot-holders upon such conditions and subject to
| such regulations said corporation or the board
| of managers may prescribe, and certificate un-
der the seal OF said corporatlon OF the ownership
respects have the same effect as any conveyance
| from said corporation of said lot would have if
executed, acknowledged, and recorded as con-
veyances of real estate are quired by law to be;
which certificate shall be entered in book kept
by said corporation tor that purpose, the same to
be open to the inspection OF all persons interest
ed and burial lots in said cemetery shall not be
subject to the debts of the lot-holders thereof
and the land of the said corporation dedicated to
| the purposes of Il cemetery shall not be subject
| to taxation of any kind.


SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the
| affairs of said corporation may be conducted by
such board of managers as the said corporation
may ordain, to be composed of the corporators
or any selected number thereof, and such other
persons as the said corporation may elect.


SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That no
Streets anes alleys roads, or canals, of any sort
shall be opened through the property of said cor
the purposes of cemetery: Provided That moth
ing herein contained shall be so construed to
authorize said corporation to obstruct any public
road street, or lane or alley now actually open
ed and used as such.


SEC. g. And be it further enacted, That any
person who shall wilfully destroy, mutilate or



grave-stone, or other structure or work placed in
said cemetery, any fence, railing work for
protection OF ornament of said cemetery, or any
tomb, monument, gravestone, other structure
or work thereon, or shall wilfully destroy, cut,
break or remove any tree, shrub, or plant, with
in the limits of said cemetery shall be considered
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction
thereof before any magistrate or justice of the
peace, shall be punished by fine, at the discretion
of the Justice, according to the aggravation of the
offence, of not less than five nor more than fifty
dollars.


SEC. z. And be it further enacted, That the
said corporation shall provide for the return, from
time to time, to the Corporation of Washington
of reports of all interments made in said ceme-
terry, of persons who may have died within the
limits of the city of Washington, in such manner
as may be prescribed from time to time by said
Corporation of Washington.


SEC. 8. And be it further enacted That moth
ing in this act shall be construed to authorize
said corporation to issue any note, token, device,
scrip, or other evidence of debt, to be used as
currency; and each of the corporators in said
corporation shall be held LIABLE in his individual
capacity, for all the debts and liabilities of said
corporation, however contracted or incurred, to
be recovered by suit other debts liabilities
before the court tribunal having jurisdiction of
the


SEC. g. And be it further enacted, That it shall
be lawful for Congress, at any time hereafter, to
alter, amend, repeal the foregoing act.


APPROVED, June 10, 1862.