Chapter XCIX. *to incorporate the Mount Olivet Cemetery Company, in the District of Columbia.* June 10, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Mount Olivet Cemetery Company incorporated
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Chap. XCIX.— An Act *to incorporate the Mount Olivet Cemetery Company, in the District of Columbia.* June 10, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Mount Olivet Cemetery Company incorporated. That Edward A. Knight, Charles J. White, and Charles D. Bowling, and their successors, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name and title of “the Mount Olivet Cemetery Company,” and by that name may Powers of corporation.have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued in the courts of law and equity, and other competent tribunals, may have and use a common seal, and the same may destroy, alter, and renew at pleasure, may associate with them such other persons in said company to any number not exceeding nine, may fill all vacancies which may occur in their own body, and may from time to time ordain such by-laws, not inconsistent with the laws in force in the District of Columbia, as they may deem necessary or proper for said company.
Sec. 2. Corporation may hold real and personal estate.*And be it further enacted*, That said corporation may acquire, hold, and dispose of such estate, real, persona), and mixed, as may be necessary or proper for the purposes of said corporation: *Provided*, The said corporation shall not own at any one time more than one hundred acres of land in the country of Washington, and without the limits of the Limitation.city of Washington: *And provided further*, That at least thirty acres in one body be set apart and used for the purposes of a cemetery.
Sec. 3. Burial lots may be sold, &c.*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 as said corporation or the board of managers may prescribe, and a certificate Title to lots.under the seal of said corporation, of the ownership or other interest in any lot aforesaid, shall in all respects have the same effect as any conveyance from said corporation of said lot would have, if executed, acknowledged, and recorded as conveyances of real estate are required by law to Record.be; which certificate shall be entered in a book kept by said corporation for that purpose, the same to be open to the inspection of all persons interested;
Lots not subject to debts or axes.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 a cemetery shall not be subject to taxation of any kind. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That the affairs of said corporation Managers of 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, lanes, alleys, roadsTHIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 99, 101. 1862.427 or canals, of any sort, shall be opened through the property of said corporationStreets, &c., not to be opened through cemetery. exclusively appropriated and used for the purposes of a cemetery: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize said corporation to obstruct any public road, or street, or lane, or alley now actually opened and used as such.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted*, That any person who shall wilfullyPenalty for defacing or destroying gravestones monuments, fences, shrubs, &c. destroy, mutilate or deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other structure or work placed in said cemetery, or any fence, railing, or work for protection or ornament of said cemetery, or any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other structure or work thereon, or shall wilfully destroy, cut, break, or remove any tree, shrub, or plant, within 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. 7. *And be it further enacted*, That the said corporation shall provideReports of interments to be made. for the return, from time to time, to the Corporation of Washington, of reports of all interments made in said cemetery, 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 nothing in this act shall be soCorporation not to issue notes as currency. construed as to authorize said corporation to issue any note, token, device, scrip, or other evidence of debt, to be used as a currency; and each of the corporators in said corporation shall be held liable, in his individualCorporators individually liable. capacity, for all the debts and liabilities of said corporation, however contracted or incurred, to be recovered by suit as other debts or liabilities before the court or tribunal having jurisdiction of the ease.
Sec. 9. *And be it further enacted*, That it shall be lawful for Congress,Act may be altered or repealed. at any time hereafter, to alter, amend, or repeal the foregoing act. Approved, June 10, 1862.