JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

which shall be on the first Tuesday of May in each and every
year, and shall continue in office for one year, and un til others
are duly elected, a majority of whom shall constitute a
quorum for the transaction of all kinds of business; that the

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said directors shall be elected by ballot by a majority of the
votes of the lotholders present in person or by proxy, and a
majority of the votes given shall be necessary to a choice,
and such ballot shall be made from time to time until the
requisite number of directors shall be chosen; each lot
shall entitle the holders thereof to have one vote. If any

How elected.

vacancy or vacancies by death, resignation or otherwise, the
remaining directors or director shall have power to fill all
such vacancies, to serve until others are duly elected, and if
at any time vacancies should exist in the office of all the
directors, or if elections for directors should not be held as
herein directed, this corporation shall not thereby cease, but
directors shall be elected to fill said vacancies at such time
and place as the lotholders, or a majority of them, shall
appoint, who shall have the same powers as if they had been
elected at an annual meeting, and hold their office until others
are duly elected. The directors shall appoint one of their
number president, who shall have such powers and perform
such duties as shall be provided by the by-laws; that the said
C. S. Ellison, Joshua Clayton, J. H. Brooks, J. R. Kirk,
John Davidson and J. S. Hopper shall be directors until
the first annual meeting after this Act shall go into operation,
and until others shall be duly elected.

Vacancy.
How filled.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the directors for the
time being shall have full power and authority, and it shall
be their duty to lay out the grounds aforesaid into burial lots
in such manner and form as they shall deem most suitable,
and to lay out such aisles or passways as to them shall seem
right and proper, and shall dispose of such lots by sale at
auction or otherwise for the best price that can be attained
therefor, giving at least ten days' notice of the time and place
of such sale by putting up not less than five advertisements in
the most public places in the neighborhood, and if any of the
lots should remain unsold after such sale, the said directors may
at any time thereafter sell the same at such time and in such
manner as they may think best, and the said directors shall
at all times have the management and control of the said
cemetery, and shall lay out and expend the funds arising from
the sale of burial lots and from the charge for burial in the
strangers' or public ground, after the payments of the pur-
chase money of the said lot of ground, in improving, repair-

Duties of
directors.