Chapter 193. To prohibit the interment of bodies in Graceland Cemetery in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 193.— An Act To prohibit the interment of bodies in Graceland Cemetery in the District of Columbia.August 3, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Graceland Cemetery, D. C.Charter terminated. That from and after the date of the passage of this Act the charter of the Graceland Cemetery Association of the District of Columbia shall cease and determine except as to the members of the board of officers of said association, who, and their successors in office, are hereby continued as such corporation for the purposes hereinafter stated, with power, by unanimous vote, to fill any vacancies in said board until the distribution hereinafter directed shall have been effected; and after the said date of passage it shall be Interments forbidden.unlawful to inter any bodies in the cemetery known as the Graceland Cemetery in the District of Columbia; and any person or persons Penalty.violating this Act, or aiding or abetting its violation, shall be subject to a tine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, to be collected as other fines are collected in the District of Columbia.
Sec. 2. That the said board of officers of the Graceland Cemetery AssociationTransfer of bodies. of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized, empowered, and directed, under such regulations as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may prescribe, to transfer the bodies interred in said cemetery to some other suitable public cemetery or cemeteries within the District of Columbia at the expense of said Graceland Cemetery Association. And said board of officers be, and they are hereby, Sale of land.authorized and empowered to subdivide, sell, and convey in fee simple the whole or any part of the tract of land known as Graceland Cemetery and the buildings thereon and apply the proceeds of such sales, together with all other moneys and assets of said association, as hereinafter directed.
After paying all obligations and liabilities of said association, including a condensation to said board of officers of live per centum of the gross amount aforesaid, together with reasonable attorneys’ fees and other necessary expenses in the discharge of the Distribution of proceedsduties imposed upon them by this Act, the said board of officers shall distribute the remainder of such amount among the owners of lots in said burial ground as such ownership may be evidenced by certificates of ownership of record on the books of said association.
Said distribution shall be pro rata according as the certificate value of each lot is to the total certificate value of all the lots in said cemetery. In cases where said board of officers shall be in doubt as to the ownership of any lot or of any claim against said association they shall pay into the registry of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, for distribution, the amount to which the owner or owners of such lot shall be entitled Final settlement.to as aforesaid, or the amount of such claim, as the case may be.
When 221 all the net proceeds as aforesaid shall have been distributed as herein-before prescribed, the said board of officers shall tile an affidavit to that effect, with their accounts and vouchers, in the office of the clerk of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. Approved, August 3, 1894.