1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 527.

continue in office until an election shall be held; the
said president and managers shall have power to fill
vacancies in their own body, to lay out and ornament
the grounds, remove or alter the old buildings, and
erect now ones, 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, rules and reputations as they may
deem proper for conducting the business of the cor-
poration, for the government of the lot holders and
visitors to the Cemetery, and for the transfer of lots,
and the evidence thereof, and the said president and
directors shall have power to call for the payment of
the instalments on the lots, agreeable to the terms of
subscription, or in such other manner as the exigences
of the cemetery may require; in all elections held
under this act, each proprietor of one lot shall have
one vote; those owning lour lots, two voles; eight
lots, three votes; sixteen lots, lour voles; thirty lots,
five votes; sixty lots, six votes; one hundred lots and
upwards, eight votes.

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

Proviso.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That no streets, lanes,
alleys, roads or canals of any sort, shall be opened
through the property of said corporation, exclusively
used or appropriated to the purposes of a Cemetery;
provided, nothing herein contained shall authorise
said corporation to obstruct any public, road or street,
lane or alley, now actually opened and used as such.

Penally for
injuring, etc.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That any person who
shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or re-
move any tombs, monument, grave stone, or other
structure placed in the Cemetery aforesaid, or any
fence, railing, or other work for protection or or-
nament of any tomb, monument, grave stone, 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 consider-
ed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon convic-
tion thereof, before any justice of the peace of Alle-
gany county, be punished by a fine, at the discretion
of the justice, according to the aggravation of the of-
fence, of not less than five dollars, and not more than
fifty dollars.

Exempted
from taxation.

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