PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

maintenance and preservation of said Cemetery, and
the ornaments and improvements which have been,
or may hereafter be added thereto.

CHAP. 323.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That said purchase be as valid as if the

name of the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, in the city and precincts of Baltimore, had
been inserted, instead of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, in the city and precincts of Baltimore, in the
act to which this is a supplement.

Purchase made
valid.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said corporation
may receive gifts and bequests for the purpose of or-

namenting and improving said Cemetery, and may
hold such personal property as may be requisite to
carry out the object of this act, and that to which it
is a supplement.

To receive do-
nations, &c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That no street, lane, or
alley heretofore laid out, road or canal of any sort
heretofore laid out, shall be opened through that part

of the property of said corporation appropriated to the
purposes of a Cemetery; provided, nothing herein
contained shall authorise said corporation to obstruct
any public street or road, lane or alley, now actually
opened and used as such; and provided, this exemp-
tion be confined to the above mentioned property,
bought of Lancaster Ould, Esquire.

Canals, &c.,
not to be open-
ed through ce-
metery.

Provisoes.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the grounds dedi-
cated to said Cemetery, so long as they shall be used
as such, shall be liable to no tax or public imposition
whatever.

Exempted
from taxation.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That any person who.
shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or re-

move any tomb, monument, or gravestone, or other
structure, placed in the Cemetery aforesaid, or any
fence, railing, or other work, for the protection or or-
nament of any tomb, monument, or gravestone, or
other structure aforesaid, or shall wilfully destroy, cut,
break, or remove any tree, shrub, or plant within the
limits of said Cemetery, or shall shoot or discharge
any gun or other fire-arms within the said limits, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof, before any justice of the peace of Bal-
timore county, be punished by a fine, at the discretion
of the justice, of not less than five, nor more than fifty
dollars.

Penalty for
injuring, etc.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That every lot conveyed
in said Cemetery shall be held by the proprietor, tor
the purpose of sepulture alone, and for none other, as
real estate, and shall not be subject to attachment

Lots exempted
from execution.