Year: 1870

ln the District of Columh.a where its business operations shall be located, and any and every such slockholder, creditor, or represent tatiye shall have right to make extracts from such books and no transfer of stock shall be valid for any purposes whatsoever, except to render the person to whom it shall be transfer. red liable for the debts of the company, accord ing to the proyi sions Of ths act, until 1t shal have been entered therein, as required by this section, by an entry showing to and from whom transferred Such book shall be pre- sunptiYe evidence of the facts therein stated in favor of the plaintiff in any suit or proceed ing against such company, who shall neglect to make any proper entry in such book, ol shall refuse or neglect 10 exhibit the same, or to allow the sama to be inspected and extracts to be taken therefrom, as herein before pro-. vided shall be deemed guilty of a misdemean- or, and the company shall pay to the party n-

 jured penalty of fifty dollars for any such neglect or refusal, and all damages resulting therelrOm; and every comp pany that shall ne- geet to keep such book open for inspection as aforesaid shall forfeit to the United States tho sun of fifty dollars for every day 1t shall so neglect to be sued for and recovered, in the name of the people, in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, and when so recoy- cred the amount shall be paid into the trea,, sury of said District of Columbia for tue use thereof

 CEMETERIES-INC

 SEC }. And be it further enacted, That where five or more persons shall associate themselves together for the purpose of form- ing cemetery association in the District of columbia, such person shall have the power to adopt corporate name, and by that name shall be known as a body corporate, and by that name shall have perpetual succession and be invested with all powers, rights, privileges, liabilities, and ImmuntiC incident to corpo' rations. Said persons, so associated, shatl have power to acquire by gift, grant, or pur- chase any lots of land not exceeding fifty acres and lay out the same for burial place for the dead, with convenient aisles, and to sell the same for such purpose and for no other purposes, ,reservlng sufficient population thereof for the burial of the stranger and in- digen. Said persons, so associated, may have common seal and may alter or change the same at their pleasure. Said association shall have power to inciose and ornament said burial ground, to build and erect a hearse- house and keep the same in proper repair, to purchase hearse or hearses and to do all other necessary acts to the end that all the appliances conyenences, md benefit of a pu- bIic and private cemetery may be desired and obtained.

 The officers of said corporation shall be a president, treasurer, who shall act as secre- tary, and three directors, which said officers shall be chosen annually by ballot, and shall hold their office until their succes sors are cho- ol, 4 ,o.- the day fixed upon for that purpose shall not operate as forfeiture of their act of incorpo- ration, in accordance with the provisions of this act.

 The first election of officers, by the persons associating, according to and for the purpose specified Tn the first section of this act shall be ct the time and place designed and agreed upon by majority of the persons 80 associat~ ing themselves together, aud no other than such persons shall vote at said election.

 At each subsequent election of officers of said incorporation the owner or owners of a lot or lots in said burial grounds shall be en- titled to one vote in the election of officers of said corporation, and no more and shall. by virtue of such membership, be a member of said corporation.

 The persons associating together in accors dance with the provisions of this aet shall cause the land designed as burial ground to br surveyed in the office of the register of deeds for the District of Columbia. Each lot shall be duly numbered by said surveyor, and such number shall be marked on said plat and recorded as aforesaid.

 The said corporation shall have power to establish and change bylaws, and prescribe rules and regulations for its government and ;he duties of its officers and the management of its property.

 The proceeds arising from the sale of lots in the foregoing sections of this act provided for after de ucting all expenses of purchasing and laying out lots, shall be applied, appropriated, and used in improving and ornamentng the burial ground, or for other purposes named in this act.

 The property of the corporation, its ground, lots, and appliances, shall be exempt from tax atiou and shall not be liable to sale on execu- tioR.