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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0644 and id is 1 raw text is: 206 Cemetery Companies.
pass by insolvency or into the hands of executors or administrators,
flow to descend. but the rights and interests shall remain in the families of each, ac.
cording to the course of descents.
Comiencement. 6. This act shall be in force from its passage.
CHAr. 279.-An ACT incorporating the Thornroso cemetery company at the
town of Staunton.
[Passed F'ebruary Q-1, 1849.]
Thornrose cmec- 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That James Points,
tery company TI
Incorporated. Francis T. Stribling, Benjauin Crawford, Kenton Harper, Alexan.
der H. 11. Stuart, Nicholas C. Kinney, Thomas J. Michie, William
Kinney, George M. Cochran, Jefferson Kinney, John B. Brecken.
ridge, Hugh W. Sheffey and Nicholas K. Trout, their successors
and associates, and all such persons as hereafter become owners of
lots in the cemetery hereby incorporated, shall be and are hereby
created and made a body politic and corporate in law, under the
name and style of The Thornrose Cenmcttry Company, and by
Corporate that name and style shall be able and capable in law to have and
power., use a common seal, to contract and be contracted with, to sue and
be sued, to plead and be impleaded, and to do and perform all such
other things as are incident to a body politic and corporate.
Power to hold 2. hat said, company shall have the right to purchase and hold,
Itdandi proe in or near the town of Staunton, not exceeding in quantity fifteen
acres of land for the purposes of said cemetery ; and shall have
power to lay out and ornament the same, to erect such buildings
thereon as it may deem necessary and proper, to arrange burial lots,
liy-laws. and to make and enforce, by reasonable fines and penalties, such
by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of the establish-
ment as it shall judge best, provided the same be not contrary to the
constitution and laws of the United States or of this state.
Streets and roads 3. That hereafter no streets, lanes, alleys or roads, shall be made
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throughcene- or established, or made over said land or any part thereof, except
tory. for the use of the said company, nor shall the same be condemned
or taken for any public use.
Trustees to bo , 4. The estate, property and affairs of said corporation, not other-
chtosen. wise provided for, shall be managed and controlled by a board of nine
trustees, to be chosen from amongst the original corporators, or
those who may have become proprietors of lots in said cemetery, in
which election and all other meetings each corporator or lot owner
Votes of mern- shall be entitled to one vote.
tiers 5. That the first meeting of the members of said company shall
First general
meeting when take place in the town of Staunton, at such time as may be desig-
and where, nated by the first six of the persons named in this act, seven days
public notice of tie same being given previous to said meeting ; at
which meeting and at all other meetings, tie members may vote in
person or by proxy.
Annual meet- G. That there shall ever after be annual meetings of the mem-
lags. bers for the election of trustees, at such time as the by-laws of the
Term or office or company may require; but in the event of a failure to hold such
trustee-. meetings, tile trustees then in office shall continue until their suc-
cessors may be elected.
President, trea- 7. That immediately after the first general meeting for tile dec-
surer Ban r other
oeficers to be tion of trustees, and of all other elections of trustees, they shall
elected. elect from their own body a president, and shall elect a treasurer
and secretary and such other officers as tire by-laws may designate,
Vacancles filled. and may fill any vacancy that may occur in any office.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsva0644&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)