152 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 26.

as prescribed in the eleventh section of this article, by executing
an instrument as therein directed specifying the name, style, and
title by which they shall be known in law, the number and names
of the managers of said company, the amount of capital stock
thereof, the number of acres to be held by said company, and
where situated, and by acknowledging said instrument, and pro-
curing the same to be recorded in the manner in the said section
directed.

21. A corporation, formed under the provisions of the last pre-
ceding section, shall have power to purchase and hold not exceed-
ing one hundred acres of land, and to receive gifts and bequests
for the purpose of ornamenting and improving such cemetery,
and to hold such personal property as may be requisite to carry
out the purposes for which cemetery companies are formed;
Provided, that no company formed under the provisions of the
last preceding section, shall be authorized or empowered to pur-
chase, or hold or use, for the purposes of burial, any ground that
shall be comprised within the limits of any city or town in this
State, unless the corporate authorities of said city or town shall
authorize the same.

22. The company so incorporated may annually elect the
managers from its members, by a majority of the votes of the
proprietors, at such time and place as its by-laws may specify.

23. The said managers shall have power to fill all vacancies in
their body, to lay out and ornament the cemetery grounds, erect
necessary buildings, sell and dispose of burial lots, appoint all
necessary officers and agents, fix the respective duties and com-
pensation, make such regulations as they may deem proper for
conducting the affairs of the corporation, for the government of
lot holders, visitors to the cemetery, and for the transfer of stock
and the evidence thereof.

24. In all elections, each proprietor or holder of stock shall be
entitled to one vote for each share of stock held by him.

25. No lanes, alleys or streets, roads, canals, or public
thoroughfares of any sort, shall be opened through the property
of such corporation, used or appropriated for the purpose of
burial; but nothing herein contained shall authorize the said
corporation to obstruct any public road, street or lane, actually
opened and used as such at the time of the incorporation or then