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 266 FOBTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. Ch. 77. 1877. Feb. 28, 1877. CHAP. 'I'7.—An act to amend an act incorporating the proprietors of Glenwood —————-—-—-—·— Cemetei 7, a pproved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. Be tt enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United t G}°’“'°‘{1d C°,;‘;‘; States of America in Congress assembled, That the above entitled act of ,,,°;,:,gd6(” T incorporation he, and the same is hereby, amended as follows, to wit; ‘ Titla of _,°,,,0,.,,__ First. The name and title of said corporation shall be The Glenwood tion. Cemetery, a ud in that corporate name it shall hereafter sue and be sued ` as a body polii lc and corporate, and exercise all the corporate authority and powers conferred upon it, and be subject to all the liabilities and duties imposed u nder the original act of incorporation aforesaid. _ Bow, of mM_ Second. That the affairs, business, and property of the said corpora- .,8, tion shall be under the direction, control, and management of a board of five trustees, any three of whom shall constitute a quorum, with full authority to act, which board of trustees shall be elected annually, three by the proprietors of lots in said cemetery, and two by the original proprietors; and the trustees shall select and appoint, from their own board, Ofiicers. a president, secretary, and treasurer, and also, from their own board or otherwise, a su perintendent, to -have the immediate custody, supervision, and management of the cemetery, under the rules and regulations of ·y.,,m of trustees, the board. The trustees shall have authority to fill temporary vacancies vacancies. occurring in their board, and shall hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified. Meetings of pw- Third. The annual meeting of the proprietors of lots shall be held in prictors or lots. the city of Washington on the first Monday of June of every year, the place and hour of assembling to be specified in a public notice previously given by the trustees elected by the lot proprietors. At such meeting, there shall be at least twenty lot-proprietors to constitute a quorum to transact business, either in person or by proxy, although a less number may adjourn the meeting from day to day until a quorum be present. Election omust- In the election of the trustees at such meeting, each lot-proprietor shall eee be entitled to one vote for each lot owned by him in good faith, upon which a burial has been made. The two trustees of the board which are to be elected by the original proprietors shall be elected on the first Mondlay ini June. of every year in such manner as said original proprietors s all etermine. . · C.,,,duct of af. Fourth. The affairs of the cemetery shall be so conducted under the fairs. authority of the board of trustees as to secure_the equitable rights of each and every person having in any way any vested interest in the Supgpvisjou of said cemetery. And the cemetery shall be amenable and subject to the equity court of jurisdiction of the equity courts of the District of Columbia for any dis- Plsmci 0* C°1“m· regard of the rights or interests of any person whatsoever. And any MSM,,; penalty_ trustees, or obstruct or disturb such possession in said trustees for said purposes of burial, shall forfeit and pay, as apenalty therefor, the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every day of such refusal or disturbance, to be collected in an action of debt, in the name of the cemetery corporation; and the sum that may be recovered shall be appropriated for the improvement of the cemetery grounds. f1`<>rm ,;‘ihe pro- Fifth. That the words “ the proprietors," where they occur in the P“"*°”· original act of incorporation hereby amended, shall be interpreted and construed to mean and shall signify the proprietors of lots in said cemetery, and which is hereby now declared by this amendment to be the true intent and meaning of said words. 0iI;’$;°**‘l° of ***1*** Sixth._ Thai from the receipts from the sale of lots hereafter sold, of ° ‘ the ground new dedicated for burial purposes, there shall be paid, on the first Monday in June in each year, by the board of trustees, to the original proprietors, one fourth of the gross receipts arising from such sgliels, the remainder to be devoted to the improvement and maintenance o e cemetery. ‘ t giggi *>l¤¤¤i¤¤ ¤1` Seventh. That within ten days after the approval of this act, any five ’ “ "“· proprietors of lots m said cemetery may call a meeting by giving two days’ notice thereof in any newspaper published in the city of Washing-
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