ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

timore city), for the purpose of establishing,
maintaining and improving a public cemetery,
which is hereby declared to be the only object
for which said corporation is created provided
the quantity of land owned by said corporation
shall not exceed one hundred and fifty acres,
with authority to said corporation to receive
gifts or bequests for the purpose of ornament-
ing or improving said cemetery, and to hold
such personal property as may be requisite to
carry out the object of this act.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the affairs of

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said corporation shall be conducted by a board
of nine directors, who shall be elected by the
stockholders on the first Tuesday of May in each
and every year ; and in case no elections shall
be held at the time aforesaid, the officers last
elected shall continue in office until an election
shall be held, which may be held at a special
meeting of the stockholders, called at any time af-
ter the said first Tuesday in May, upon ten days'
notice thereof being published in some newspa-
per published in Baltimore city. Such board of
directors shall have power to fill all vacancies
in their own body. The said board, at its first
meeting after such election, shall elect from its
own number a president to serve for the ensu-

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ing year, and shall have power to lay out and
ornament the grounds, to remove and alter the
old buildings, and erect new ones, to lay out and
sell, or dispose of, burial lots ; to appoint all ne-
cessary officers and agents, and fix their several
duties and compensation, and to make such by-
laws, rules and regulations as they may deem
proper for conducting the affairs of the corpora-
tion, for the government of lot-holders and visit-
ors to the cemetery, and for the transfer of stock
and the evidence thereof ; and the said board of
directors shall have power to call installments
from time to time on the capital stock of said
corporation ; and in all elections held under this
act, each stockholder shall be entitled to one
vote for each share of stock held by him or her.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the capital stock

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of the said corporation shall be two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, divided into twenty-
five hundred shares of the par value of one

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