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An Act to alter and amend the Charter of the Town of Columbia, and for other purposes. 1854 333 (1854)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0392 and id is 1 raw text is: ornament the grounds, to dispose of and arrange burial lots, and to make A. D. 1854. such by-laws, rules and regulations relative to the election of Directors and their successors, and the appointment of suitable officers and agents, and also such rules and regulations for the government of lot-holders and visitors to the cemetery, and for the management of the affiairs of the company generally, as from time to time they may deem necessary. That the said Elmwood Cemetery Company shall be able and capable in law to sell and dispose of the above mentioned land for burial lots, and also to have and hold so much personal estate, and no more, as may be necessary for the purposes of this incorporation: Provided, That the said land, selected for a Only for bur. cemetery, shall never be granted but for burial lots; and that the lots so ril. granted shall be held by the proprietors for the purposes of sepulture alone. III. That no streets or roads shall hereafter be opened through the land so appropriated, except by and with the consent of this Corporation. IV. That any person who shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure Protection. or remove any tomb, monument, grave stone, or other structure placed in the cemetery aforesaid, or any fence, railing, or other works for the protec- tion or ornament of any tomb, monument, grave stone,:,or other structure aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof before any Court of General Sessions, be punished by a fine, at the discretion of the Presiding Justice, according to the aggravation of the offence, of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars. V. That the members of said Corporation shall be jointly and severally Liability for liable for all debts and contracts made by the said Corporation during the debts. period of their membership. VI. That the said Cemetery grounds shall be exempt from taxation, and Exempt from also from levy and sale uider execution. taxes. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and in the seventy-ninth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. ROBT. F. W.. ALLSTON, President of the Senate. JAMES SIMONS, ,S)eaker House of Replresentatives. AN ACT TO ALTER AND AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF COLUMBIA, No. 4187. AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met Corporators: and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That from and immediately, after the first Monday in April next, all and every OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 388

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