PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

hand of the president, and the seal of the corporation,
shall also be competent evidence in such courts, and the
said directors shall at each and every annual meeting of
the lot owners, lay before such meeting a full state-
ment of the concerns of the corporation, and the books
of the corporation shall at all times be open to the in-
spection of the lot holders.

CHAP. 516.

SEC 6. And be it further enacted, That any per-
son or persons, who shall wilfully do any injury to the
cemetery aforesaid, the buildings, fences or fixtures
thereof, or to the monuments, trees, shrubbery therein,
or commit any trespass thereon, shall forfeit and pay to
the corporation for any such injury or trespass, the sum
of three dollars, and for wilfully doing the same injury
or trespass or any injury or trespass of the same kind
the second time, the sum of five dollars, but in every
such case the corporation may elect to proceed at law
for damages, and if any person or persons shall put or
place, or cause to be put or placed any matter or thing
in the cemetery contrary to the regulations thereof, and
shall not remove the same upon request; and pay all
damages, he she or they shall be deemed a trespasser
or trespassers, and proceeded against accordingly, all of
which may be sued for and recovered as other debts of
like character and amount are recovered in this State.

Penalty for
injuring, etc.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the president and
managers of said corporation shall cause to be made out

a neat and substantial plat of the ground in said ceme-
tery, a record of which shall be made in the book or
books of said corporation and a copy thereof left with
the clerk of the Cecil county court, to be recorded
among the land records of said county, and whenever
any person or persons shall purchase one or more burial
lots, it shall be the duty of the said corporation to
cause a minute of said sale and purchase to be entered
in some suitable place in their said book or books.

To cause plat
to be made out.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said directors,
with the consent and approbation of the lot holders,
may after the first sale of lots to be made as hereinbefore
directed, allot and lay off such part of the unsold
ground, as they may think proper, for a strangers or
public burying place, and make such rules and regu-
lations in relation thereto, as they shall deem proper
for the interest of the corporation.

Lots for the
interment of
strangers.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That this is
hereby declared a public act.

Declared pub-
lic act.