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An Act incorporating the Washington Cemetery Company, in Mason County. 1863 347 (1863.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0853 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. CHAPTER 271. 1864. AN ACT incorporating the Washington Cemetery Company, in Ma 18on County. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That Henry W. Wood, George L. Forman, Lucien Gorporaton B. Goggin, Peyton J. Key, Thomas Parry, Martin D. Steel, na-,es. and Alexander Hunter, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession, under the name and style of the Washington Cemetery Company; and by that name shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and they may have and use a common seal. § 2. That said company shall organize by appointing Ofcersto be one of their body president, and the election of a secretary appointed. and treasurer; they may appoint a sexton, and employ such servants or laborers as may be necessary to do all such work as they may deem useful and appropriate on such grounds and premises, as they may have or acquire as cemetery property. § 3. The said company shall have power to dedicate, as May asquire a burial place or cemetery, such portion of the ground sur- ground. rounding the Baptist church, in Wnshington, Ky., now known as the Baptist grave-yard, as they may acquire; and also such other grounds, adjoining or near said grave- yard, as may be necessary for the purpose of a cemetery; but they shall not acquire title to more than ten acres of land. They are hereby authorized, either by gift or pur- chase, to acquire title, as indicated to ten acres of land. They may lay off the cemetery grounds, at discretion, into walks, avenues, lots, &c.; and they may sell the lots, or otherwise dispose of them, bt only for burial purposes. T They shall keep a record of their proceedings, and shall & c. make a plot on their record, of the cemetery lots, walks, avenues, &c., and shall record the sales of the lots, and shall give to every purchaser or grantee a certificate of sale or grant, signed by the president, which shall be a good conveyance to him or her, for burial purposes, but no other; and such certificate may be transferrable by writing, if the written transfer shall be copied on the records of said company. § 4. The said company may purchase and own such per- May purchase personal prop- sonal property as may be necessary and useful for the erty. cemetery. § 5. The said company shall always keep their cemetery Grounds to be grounds securely fenced; and they may use the funds of the properlyfeunced. company as they may deem advisable, with a view to the proper improvement of the said grounds and premises, but in no other way. § 6. The said corporalors, or a majority of them, shall Vacancy. have power to fill any vacancy in their body, by the ap- pointment of a citizen of Mason county.

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