Chapter 7. Prohibiting the interment of the body of any person in the cemetery known as the Cemetery of White’s Tabernacle Numbered Thirty-nine of the Ancient United Order of Sons and Daughters, Brethren and Sisters of Moses, in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 7.— An Act Prohibiting the interment of the body of any person in the cemetery known as the Cemetery of White’s Tabernacle Numbered Thirty-nine of the Ancient United Order of Sons and Daughters, Brethren and Sisters of Moses, in the District of Columbia. December 16, 1921.[[S. 2108](/us/bill/67/s/2108).][[Public, No. 112](/us/67/pl/112).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Intermentin White’s Tabernacle Cemetery unlawful.
That from and after the date of the passage of this Act it shall be unlawful to inter the body of any person in the cemetery known as the Cemetery of White’s Tabernacle Numbered Thirty-nine of the Ancient United Order of Sons and Daughters, Brethren and Sisters of Moses, in the District of Columbia349and situate in the District of Columbia, to wit: Part of a tract calledLocation described. “Chappell’s Vacancy,” contained within the following metes and bounds, namely: Beginning for the same at the southeast comer of the land conveyed to Frederick Bangerter by deed recorded in Liber Numbered Seven hundred and eighty-five, folio four hundred and seventy-four, of the land records of the District of Columbia, and running thence north fifteen and three-fourths degrees east, twenty and forty-four hundredths perches; thence south eighty-nine degrees east, three and nine-tenths perches; thence south fifteen and three-fourths degrees west, twenty and forty-four hundredths perches; thence north eighty-nine degrees west, three and nine-tenths perches to the point of beginning; and any person or persons violating thePenalty for violations. provisions of this Act, or aiding or abetting its violation, shall be subject to a fine of not less than $100, nor more than $500 for each offense, to be collected as other fines are collected in the District of Columbia.
Sec. 2. That the board of officers of White’s TabernacleRemoval of bodies to other cemeteries. Numbered Thirty-nine of the Ancient United Order of Sons and Daughters, Brethren and Sisters of Moses, in the District of Columbia, be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered, under such regulations as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may prescribe, to disinter and remove all the bodies now buried in said cemetery lot, and to transfer and reinter the same in some other suitable cemetery or cemeteries selected by the said board of officers of White’s Tabernacle Numbered Thirty-nine of the Ancient United Order of Sons and Daughters, Brethren and Sisters of Moses, and at the cost and expense of said order: *Provided*, That each monument,*Proviso*.Tombstones, etc., to be transferred. tombstone, or marker marking any grave or graves in said described burial ground shall be transferred to mark the grave or graves in which such body or bodies are to be interred, and shall be there placed in position as soon as can be done without danger of settling.
Sec. 3. That in so far as the same shall be inconsistent with theRestrictions on removal of dead bodies suspended.Vol. 31, pp. 1296, 1297. provisions of this Act as to the cemetery lot herein described, sections 675 and 680 of the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia shall be, and the same are hereby, declared inoperative, otherwise said sections 675 and 680 to remain unqualified and in full force and effect. Approved, December 16, 1921.