PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

Thomas J. McKaig, Charles H. Orr, W. Steinman,
A. F. Roberts, Thomas F. White, and their associates,
be and they are hereby created a body politic and cor-
porate, by the name and title of Cyprus Grove Ceme-
tery, and by that name shall have perpetual succes-
sion, and shall be able and liable to sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity,
and may adopt and use a common seal, and the same
at their pleasure alter or renew, and said corporate
body, when organised as hereinafter directed, shall
have all necessary powers for establishing, maintain
ing and improving a public Cemetery, which is here-
by declared to be the only object for which said cor-

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poration is erected; provided, that the quantity of land

which the said corporation may acquire as aforesaid,
and which said corporation is hereby authorised to
acquire, shall not exceed sixty acres, said corporation
shall have authority to receive gifts or bequests for
the purpose of ornamenting and improving said Ceme-
tery, and the roads leading to the same, and to hold
such personal property as may be requisite to carry
out the objects of this act.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the individual cor-
poration aforesaid shall open books of subscription for
lots in said Cemetery, in the Town of Cumberland,
after giving ten days notice of the time and place of
the opening of said books, when every person or cor-
poration, religions or otherwise, who may desire one
or more lots in said company, may subscribe for the
same, designating the number of lots so subscribed
for at the time of subscription, and when, in the opin-
ion of the said individual corporation, a sufficient
number of lots have been subscribed for, the said
corporation shall call a meeting of the stockholders
thus having subscribed, giving ten days notice of the
time and place of said meeting, in one or more of the
newspapers printed in the town of Cumberland, when
and where the said stockholders shall proceed to or-
ganise the said corporation under this charter, and
elect the officers as hereinafter mentioned, and one or
more of the said corporation shall superintend the
opening of said books, and holding said election, as
said corporation shall designate.

When books are
to be opened.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the affairs of said
corporation shall be conducted by a president and ten
managers, who shall be elected by a majority of the
votes of the said stockholders, on the first Monday of
May in each year, and in case no election shall be
held at the time aforesaid, the officers last elected shall

Affairs — how
managed.