ART. 23.] CORPORATIONS—CEMETERY. 317

Cemetery Companies.

1868, ch. 471, sec. 79.

105. No cemetery company formed under the provisions of
this article shall be authorized or empowered to purchase, hold or
use, for the purpose of burial, more than one hundred acres of
land, nor 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.

Ibid. sec. 80. 1880, ch. 185.

106. No lanes, alleys, streets, roads, canals, or public thorough-
fares of any sort, shall be opened through the property of any
cemetery company incorporated under the provisions of this,
article, which is used or appropriated for the purpose of burial;
but nothing herein contained shall authorize any such corporation
to obstruct any public road, street or lane actually opened and
used as such at the time of its incorporation, or then laid down
on any plat made by authority of the State or city, town or
county, to be opened as a street or road; provided, that no ceme-
tery company, incorporated under the provisions of this article,
shall establish, have or maintain, for the purpose of burial, any
ground within the distance of one thousand yards from any
boundary line of Druid Hill park, nor permit any interment
therein; nor shall any funeral or burial procession to or from any
cemetery incorporated under the provisions of this article pass,
through any part of said Druid Hill park, without the permission
in writing of the park commissioners; and any person or persons
who shall cause any such funeral or burial procession, or any part
thereof, to pass through any part of such park, or shall partici-
pate in any manner in any interment within the territory herein,
prescribed and prohibited as to such interments, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
subject to a fine of one hundred dollars, or to such fine and im-
prisonment for ten days in jail, in the discretion of the court.

Ibid. sec. 81.

107. Every burial lot sold or conveyed in such cemetery, shall
be held by the proprietors thereof for the sole purpose of sepul-
ture, and for none other, and shall not in any manner be subject