PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

of purchasing a tract of land lying in Baltimore county,
at the intersection of the Baltimore and Ohio rail road,
and the Washington turnpike, beyond Gwinn's falls,
containing about sixty acres, and associated for the pur-
pose of establishing thereon a public cemetery, and for
reasons above stated, pray for an act of incorporation,
and the object being deemed worthy of encouragement —
Therefore,

CHAP. 458.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Charles R. Carroll, Carroll Spence,
Richard R. Pue, O. Horsey, Edward Salmon, Oliver P.
Macgill, and Charles S. Spence, and their successors, be
and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate,
by the name and title of the Mount Clare Cemetery com-
pany, and by that name shall have perpetual succession,
and shall be able and liable to sue and be sued in any
court of law or equity, may have and use a common seal,
and shall have power to purchase and hold not exceeding
eighty acres of land, with authority to said corporation to
receive gifts and bequests, for the purpose of ornament-
ing and improving said cemetery, and to held such per-
sonal property as may be requisite to cany out the ob-
ject of this act.

Incorporated,
&c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the affairs of said
corporation shall be conducted by a president and three
managers, who shall be elected annually by a majority
of the votes of the proprietors, the said president and
managers to fill all vacancies in their own body, and shall
have power to lay out and ornament the grounds, erect
such buildings, to lay out and sell or dispose of burial lots,
to appoint all necessary officers and agents, and fix their
several duties and compensation , and to make such bye-
laws, and rules, and regulations, as they may deem
proper for conducting the affairs of the corporation, for
the government of lot holders and visitors to the ceme-
tery, and for the transfer of stock and the evidence
thereof; in all elections, held under this act, each pro-
prietor shall be entitled to one for each share held by
him or her.

Affairs — how
managed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
said company shall be represented by one thousand
shares of one hundred dollars each, divided among the
proprietors according to their respective interests, and
transferable in such manner as the bye-laws may direct.

Capital stock.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That no roads or canals,
of any sort, shall be opened through the property of said
corporation, exclusively used or appropriated to the pur-
poses of a cemetery.

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