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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the same. They shall have power to make by-laws, rules and
regulations for the government and management of the prop-
erty in their charge, not inconsistent with the Constitution and
laws of this State. They shall have power to appoint such other
officers, agents and employes as they may consider necessary to
fix their duties, to provide for their payment, and may dis-
charge any or all of them whenever they may deem it expe-
dient so to do. They shall have power to designate the person
or persons who in their judgment are proper and qualified to
be entrusted with the digging, filling and walling of graves,
and the making of all kinds of excavations for burial pur-
poses, as well as for the foundations of all monuments, tomb-
stones or other device therein, and for the walling of the same
in the said burial grounds, and may prohibit the same from
being done by any other person or persons. They shall lay out
the said grounds into burial lots, drives, walks and such other
devices as shall to them seem proper; they shall cause all burial
lots to be numbered, marked or otherwise designated, and may
dispose of them at such price and upon such terms as they
may fix, and such lots when sold shall be for the purpose of
sepulture only, and shall not in any manner be subject to
attachment or execution for debt, nor to public taxation of any
kind, nor affected by the insolvent laws of the State, but the
estate of owner or owners shall descend as real estate to their
heirs, may be devised by will, or may be disposed of by the
owner by sale, with the approval of the Board of Managers.
The ownership of any lot so sold and conveyed as aforesaid,
shall in all respects have the same effect as any, conveyance
from said corporation would have if executed, acknowledged
and recorded, as conveyances of real estate by the laws of this
State.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said Board of

Books to be
kept.

Managers shall keep books, in which shall be recorded the
meetings and proceedings of said Board of Managers and the
plat and plans of said grounds, and of the burial lots, walks,
drives and such other devices as they shall cause to be made,
also an account of the sales and transfers of lots and the names
and owners of the same, and all the by-laws, rules and regula-
tions of the said body, and the said books and proceedings
therein recorded shall be evidence thereof in any court or
before any justice of the peace in this State.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said Board of
Managers shall keep the proceeds of the sale of all burial lots
in a separate fund, the principal of which shall not be used for