JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

and every annual meeting of the lot-owners lay before such
meeting a full statement of the concerns of the corporation,
and the books of the corporation shall at all times be open to
the inspection of the lotholders.

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SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That any person or persons
who shall wilfully do any injury to the cemetery aforesaid, the
buildings, fences or fixtures thereof, or to the monuments,
trees, shrubbery therein, or commit any trespass thereon,
shall forfeit and pay to the corporation for any such injury or
trespass the sum of three dollars; arid for wilfully doing the
same injury or trespass, or any injury or trespass of the same

Wilful injury
to cemetery.

kind the second time, the sum of five dollars; but in every
such case the corporation may elect to proceed at law for
damages; and if any person or persons shall put or place, or
cause to be put or placed, any matter or thing; in the ceme-
tery contrary to the regulations thereof, and shall not remove
the same upon request and pay all damages, he, she or they
shall be deemed a trespasser or trespassers, and proceeded
against accordingly, all of which may be sued for and recov-
ered as other debts of like character and amount are recovered
in this State.

Penalty for
violation.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the president and man-
agers of said corporation shall cause to be made out a neat
and substantial plat of the ground in said cemetery, a record
of which shall be made in the book or books of said corpora-
tion, and a c6py thereof left with the clerk of the Cecil
County Court, to be recorded among the land records of said
county; and whenever any person or persons shall purchase
one or more burial lots, it shall be the duty of the said cor-
poration to cause a minute of said sale and purchase to be
entered in some suitable place in their said book or books.

Shall make
plat of the
ground, etc.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said directors, with the
consent and approbation of the lotholders, may, after the first
sale of lots to be made as hereinbefore directed, allot and lay
off such part of the unsold ground, as they think proper, for a
strangers' or public burying place, and make such rules and
regulations in relation thereto as they shall deem proper for
the interest of the corporation.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That this is hereby
declared a public Act.

Approved April 5, 1900.

Public burying
place.