conveyed, as aforesaid, or which may hereafter be conveyed to said corporation, shall be held solely and exclusively for a cemetery and ornamental grounds connected therewith, and shall never be alienated, sold, or used by said corporation for any other purpose than burial lots, as hereinafter prescribed; but the said corporation may permit their superintendent or other officers, to use that portion of the grounds and buildings not sold for burial lots, for horticultural purposes, and the proceeds arising therefrom shall be applied to the improvement of the grounds, fixtures, and buildings: Provided, the same is used in a manner not inconsistent with the reverence and respect due to the cemetery of the dead. Exempt from taxes and sale under execution. No road to be opened. May receive § 4. That the said grounds, fixtures, shrubbery, and everything growing therein, shall always be exempt from state revenue, or other taxes, and shall not, after the ground has been fully paid for, be subject to be levied on or sold, by judgment, execution, or decree for any other debt or cause whatsoever. No road or passway shall be opened through said grounds without said company consent thereto. The said company may receive and take, by devise or bequest, any legacies that may be devised to them to be appropria- how to be ap ted to the ornament, improvement, and repair of said cemetery and grounds, and may invest in stocks or other safe investment any spare funds that from time to time they may have, and shall appropriate the proceeds arising therefrom to the improvement and repair of said cemetery and grounds; but they shall never exercise any banking pow ers. § 5. On the qualification of the trustees they shall elect a treasurer, secretary, and superintendent, and such other officers as they may deem necessary, and take from them such bond as may be required, who shall hold their office for one year and until their successors are appointed; and every such officer shall be subject to removal by said board, for the violation of any of the provisions of this act, or the by-laws of said company, or a non-compliance with the same, a majority of said board of trustee concurring therein. The treasurer of said company shall, before he enters on the duties of his office, give bond with two or more sureties, in such penalty as the trustees may require by their by-laws, payable to the Eastern Cemetery Company, conditioned that he will faithfully discharge the duties of treasurer, and that he will when called on pay the amount of moneys in his hands to the order of the trustees; and that he will perform the duties required of him by the by-laws of said company. propriated. and Record of pro ceedings to be § 6. That the trustees shall keep a regular record of their proceedings, and all sales, transfers, receipts and dis- pt. bursements; they shall always preserve an accurate map and survey of the grounds and lots, and have the same recorded in the clerk's office of Jefferson county; and the 1854. Duty of secre tary. May pass by laws, rules, &c. Proceeds of sales of lots and other funds, how to be applied. map and survey of said cemetery or the part thereof which had heretofore been surveyed and laid off, shall not be altered or changed by said trustees; but the same shall remain and be recorded as the map and survey of this com pany. And all sales of lots or parts of lots heretofore made in said cemetery shall be and the same are hereby confirmed. The secretary shall at such times as may be required of him by said trustees report a general statement of said accounts to said board of trustees, with a list of lots sold, to whom and at what price, together with a correct account of all moneys received, and of all gifts, legacies, devises, and bequests whatsoever; and also of all expenditures and disbursements touching or coucerning said grounds. The board of trustees shall have power and authority to make such by-laws, rules, and regulations in relation to the duties, management, and appointment of officers and agents and their pay, and from time to time to make all other rules and regulations for the control, management, and care of the cemetery grounds and graves, and the mode of ornamenting the same, and to regulate the mode in which bodies shall be interred, and to make such other by-laws and regulations, as may be necessary for the purposes of the corporation, and for the government of lot holders and visitors of said cemetery; they shall have full power to enter upon and remove any ornaments, fixtures, or shrubbery that may be placed on or around the graves against the by-laws or regulations of the corporation. § 7. That the proceeds of the sale of lots, and all money that may come to the corporation from any other source, shall be applied to the reimbursement of those who have made, or may hereafter make, advancements for the outlay, purchase, and improvement of said grounds and buildings; to the payment of costs and expenses for improving, decorating, and repairing said cemetery; to the payment of officers and laborers for services rendered; and one half the residue thereof shall be invested by said trustees from time to time in safe stocks or other safe investments, until a fund of ten thousand dollars shall be created, the interest of which alone shall be solely applied to the keeping of said cemetery and buildings, lots, graves, &c., in repair and proper condition; and all moneys arising from said cemetery, not heretofore appropriated and set apart, shall at the end of each and every year be paid to the trustees of the two respective churches, aforesaid; one half to each, and to be held by them in trust for the use and benefit of their respective societies. § 8. That when a burial lot is purchased, the trustees Sales of tots, shall give a certificate thereof, under the seal of the corporation, which shall vest the purchase with title. This title may be transferred according to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the by-laws of the corpor how made and evidenced. ation, but in no other manner. If not transferred by the grantee, it shall descend or pass by devise as other real estate. Such lots shall never be used for any other purpose than burial lots, and if applied to any other use, the title shall revert to the corporation; and where any person shall die seized in fee of a lot or lots in said cemetery, leaving no heirs, then the same shall revert to the corporation. § 9. That if any person or persons shall forcibly or without lawful authority violate any of the graves of the dead, or deface any of the tombstones, monuments, or inclosures, or injure any of the grounds, shrubbery, fixtures, or buildings, or in any manner damage the grounds of the corporation, such person or persons so offending, besides being liable to an indictment for a misdemeanor and punishable according to the discretion of a jury, shall be liable to the corporation in an action of trespass, and the damages, when recovered, shall be applied by the corpor ation to restore as far as possible any injury that has been done. 1854. Trespasses up. on the grounds, monuments, &c. bow punished. Approved March 4, 1854. CHAPTER 470. May let out AN ACT to change the manner of keeping toll gates and letting out repairs Notice of let. § 2. That the president shall cause to be put up at each gate along said road a printed notice, ten days previous ting to be set up. to the letting out of the same, setting out the condition. upon which said gates are to be let out. §3. He shall let out each gate separately to the highest bidder, for a term of one year, at public outcry. § 4. He shall take bond from the person bidding the highest and best bid, in double the amount bid for the gate, with good and sufficient security. § 5. He shall compel the several gate keepers to pay into himself, as president, or to the treasurer, as the board of directors may require, one fourth of the amount bid for the gates every three months; and upon a failure of any of the gate keepers to pay as is herein specified, the president shall institute a suit against such delinquent and his securities agreeable to the charter of said road, and such delinquent shall forfeit his right to hold the gate any long How payments to be niade. May sue in default of payment. 1854. er; and the president shall, by and with the consent of the § 6. The keepers of the several gates shall be governed Duties of gate by the same laws and regulations as are now in force on said road, or any future law the board of directors may enact, and shall charge no higher rate of toll than said board may direct. keepers. let out. § 7. That when in the opinion of the board of directors Repairs to be it be necessary that any repairs be made on said road, the president shall cause to be put up along the road where said repairs are to be made, printed notices of the same, at least ten days previous to the letting out of the same. § 8. He shall let out the repairing of said road at public outcry, to the lowest bidder, setting out the amount of repairs that are to be made, and the condition and manner in which the same shall be done, and the time in which it is to be completed. Contractor to draw half an't his bund. dent. § 9. That when any person shall have undertaken to make any of the repairs of said road according to any of the preceding sections, and shall have executed his bond to make said repairs, he may draw from the board of directors of said road one half the amount for which he has agreed to do said work, and then shall go on and complete the repairing he has undertaken, and then shall draw on the board for the balance due on said contract. § 10. The president shall take bond with good security Duty of presi. from those who may undertake to make said repairs, conditioned that the repairs of said road shall be made agreeably to contract; and a non-compliance with the same shall subject such person and his sureties to pay back to the board of directors all moneys he may have drawn from said board, with damages. make report. § 11. The president shall make out each year, by the President to tenth day of October and the tenth day of April, a report of all money's collected from the several gates of said road, also the amount expended in making repairs and the amount of repairs under contract on said road, which shall be accessible to any stockholder, at any time when called for; and in case the president shall fail to make out said report, or to perform any duties prescribed by this act at the time and in the manner herein prescribed, he shall be liable to a fine of two hundred dollars, which may be sued for and recovered by the president of the board of internal improvements, or any stockholder in said road. Approved March 4, 1854. C CHAPTER 472. AN ACT to authorize the Carroll County Court to subscribe stock in the Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the justices of the Carroll county court, a majority being on the bench, are hereby authorized to take and subscribe as many shares of the stock of the company of the Ghent and Eagle creek turnpike road as shall be by them deemed proper and expedient, which stock shall be, when paid in, appropriated to the erection of a bridge across Eagle creek, at the point where said road shall cross the said creek. Approved March 6, 1854. 1854. CHAPTER 473. AN ACT to incorporate the Bible Revision Association. Corporators' names. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That S. W. Lynd, W. C. Crane, A. Campbell, A. Maclay, Isaac T. Tichenor, J. A. McGill, W. Clark, D. R. Campbell, Y. R. Pitts, L. D. Alexander, J. T. Johnson, E. H. Black, B. F. Hall, S. L. Helm, W. Morton, W. W. Gardiner, J. Shannon, A. J. Coons, S. Baker, C. C. Conner, H. T. Anderson, H. Wingate, P. S. Fall, J. L. Dagg, R. W. Scott, W. Scott, D. L. Russell, T. S. N. King, J. C. Graves, R. W. Thomas, F. C. McCalla, E. Owens, John L. Waller, John M. Delph, J. D. Brown, W. W. Everts, S. Remington, S. H. Ford, T. B. Johnston, D. Spaulding, Jr., W. Garnett, W. Vaughan, J. B. Slaughter, W. W. Crawford, C. F. Smith, R. W. Graham, W. B. Caldwell, B. N. Crump, J. W. Noland, L. S. Bell, E. D. Foree, S. J. Evans, F. Rees, J. W. Rand, C. Quirey, A. Peter, W. Snoddy, S. W. Vanculen, C. Vanbuskirk, A. W. Larue, A. Drury, S. S. Church, J. D. Winston, and all other persons who are now, or who may hereafter become members of said association, according to its constitution and rules, be and they are hereby incorporated and made a body politic, by the name of the Bible Revision Association, for the purpose of translating and circulating the Sacred Scriptures; and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, appear, prosecute, and defend in any court of record or other place whatsoever; may have and use a common seal; may receive donations and legacies, purchase and hold such real and personal estate as may be necessary to effect the objects of their association; ty. and also sell and convey at pleasure: Provided, the said corporation is not to hold or possess property at any time, the profits of which shall exceed twenty-five thousand dollars per annum. And the said corporation may make and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances, and resolutions, ces, &c. 13-VOL. u. 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