ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 6.

AN ACT to repeal section eight of an act to incor-

porate a company to establish a Public Cemetery at

Westminister in Carroll county, and to revive and

connect therewith the charter of the "Westminister

General Meeting House and Burying Ground,"

passed at the January session of eighteen hundred

and sixty-four, chapter one hundred and sixty-one,

and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be, it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That section eight of an act to incor-

porate a company to establish a public cemetery at

Westminister in Carroll county, and to revive and

Repealed and

connect therewith the charter of the " Westminister

re- enacted.

General Meeting House and Burying Ground," passed

at the January session of eighteen hundred and sixty-

four, chapter one hundred and sixty-one, be and the

same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read

as follows:

SECTION 8. Be it further enacted, That the charter

granted to the trustees of the Westminister General

Meeting House in Carroll county, as aforesaid, be and

the same is hereby revived, and that all the rights,

franchises, privileges and immunities conferred by the

said charter on said trustees be and are hereby vested

Charter revived

in the said Westminister Cemetery Company, and the

president and managers thereof, with power to do all

acts necessary to protect and manage said meeting

house and burying ground as fully as the trustees

elected under said charter could have done; and the

said president and managers shall also have power

and authority to lay off burial lots, roads and walks

in said burying grounds, and remove such graves as

Power of man-
agers.

they may deem necessary to be removed for such pur-

poses; and shall also have full power and authority to

exercise such general management and control of said

burying ground as they now have over the remaining

part of the cemetery grounds under the provisions of

this act; provided that the said president and man-

agers shall set apart and maintain a portion of the

cemetery grounds for the purpose of free burial, under

Set apart and
maintain.

such rules and regulations as they may deem proper ;