ART. 23] CEMETERY COMPANIES. 587

Cemetery Companies.

1888, art. 23, sec. 105. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 79.

132. 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. 106. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 80. 1880, ch. 185.

133. No lanes, alleys, streets, roads, canals or public
thoroughfares of any sort shall be opened through the prop-
erty of any cemetery company incorporated under the pro-
visions 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 cemetery company, incorpo-
rated 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
participate in any manner in any interment within the terri-
tory 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 imprisonment for ten days in jail in the discre-
tion of the court.

Ibid, sec 107. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 81.

134. Every burial lot sold or conveyed in such cemetery
shall be held by the proprietors thereof for the sole purpose of
sepulture and for none other, and shall not in any manner be
subject to attachment or execution for debt, or affected by the
insolvent laws of this State; but the estate of the owner or