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 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 128. 1849. 773 Cgar. CXXVIII.-edn dc: ta incorporate the Oak Hill Cemetery, in the District March 3, 18-19· of Columbia. ""“"""""’_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Lorenzo Oak Hi11¤em· Thomas, John Marbury, Senior, Edward M. Linthicum, and George CQ;}:;;; Poe, Jr., together with such other persons as may become proprietors rated., of lots in the hereinafter mentioned cemetery, of a size not less each than three hundred square feet, and their successors and assigns, be, and they are made hereby, a body politic and corporate in law, under the name, style, and title of “The Oak Hill Cemetery Company," and by that name shall be able, and capable in law, to have and use a common seal, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, and to do all such other things as are incident to a corporation. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Lorenzo Thomas, M¤¤¤8¤Y¤= John Marbury, Senior, Edward M. Linthicum, and George Poe, Jr., §;1:R°°Q;%h°w m shall be managers of the said corporation, and shall continue so to be I until the first Monday in June, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty- two, on which day, and on the same day in every succeeding year thereafter, there shall be a general meeting of the proprietors of lots in the said cemetery, who are members of the said corporation, of whom twenty, appearing in person or by proxy, shall form a quorum to transact all business; and at such meeting on that day, in each and every year, the said proprietors of lots, each being entitled to one vote, and no more, shall elect four persons from among their own number to be managers of the said corporation for one year from the day of their election, and until other managers shall be duly elected in their place; and if there shall, from any cause whatsoever, be a failure on the part of the proprietors of lots to make such election on any of the days aforesaid, the managers holding over shall appoint some other time for proprietors of lots to meet and make such election, and shall give at least six days’ previous notice of the time and place so appointed, by an advertisement in some convenient newspaper, and the managers then elected shall serve until the recurrence of the regular election, and until others have been elected in their place; and in the event of any vacancy in the board of managers by death, resignation, removal from the county, or otherwise, the continuing members of the said board shall have power to choose from among the proprietors of lots in the said cemetery a manager to fill such vacancy, and the person so chosen shall have power to act in the premises, in connection with the continuing managers, in every respect as if he had been originally appointed to said office by this act, or elected to the same by the proprietors of lots at a general meeting ; and a majority of the said board of managers shall form a. quorum to do all business. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation may _ Said corporaacquife, take, and hold, in fee simple, by gift or grant, all that portion $3 ’;‘gf&"§‘}“g: of a lot of ground in Washington county, in the District of Columbia, sim lg cmam commonly called the Rock of Dunbarton, which is bounded on the 1***13)**- south by the northern boundary line of Georgetown, on the west by lands of Captain William M. Boyce, on the north by Rock Creek, and on the east by land of the heirs of Lewis Grant Davidson, deceased, containing about fifteen acres, and any other lands adjacent thereto, not exceeding in the whole fifty acres; and may take and hold any personal estate, not exceeding ten thousand dollars in value, which said land and personal estate shall be devoted and applied to purposes connected with, and appropriate to, the objects of a cemetery or burialplace, the establishing, maintaining, and improving of which is hereby declared to be the only object for which said corporation is created. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said board of man-