Trustees Records, Vol. 6, 1875, page 16

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All alterations noted in red ink adopted at Trustees meeting Nov. 13, 1878 - Trustees Rec. Vol. VI. p. 198

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payment of twenty five dollars each in addition to the fees
hereinbefore provided ^ for; but no slab, monument or fence shall
be erected upon or around such graves without the approval
of the Committee on Lots. The Treasurer shall give to the
purchaser of a grave a certificate therefor in the form provided
for that purpose. Whenever any such grave shall becomes
vacant by removal of the body interred therein, the land shall
^thereby reverts to the Corporation; but in case the owner thereof, or
his representative, becomes the purchaser of a lot ^from the Corporation in the Ceme-
tery,
the original price for the grave shall be allowed in part
payment for the lot.

Not more than two interments shall be made in the same
grave, whether in a private or a public lot, and the later inter-
ment shall be at least three feet below the surface of the ground.

Bodies may be deposited in a receiving tomb upon the
payment of twenty-five dollars. If, within four months after
the interment, such body shall be removed to any other part
of the Cemetery, seventeen dollars of the above sum shall be
refunded; otherwise the whole amount shall be retained by the
Corporation, and the Superintendent may at any time thereafter
remove the body to such place within the Cemetery as the
Committee on Interments may direct

^For each body deposited
in the Recieving Tomb Twemtu
five dollars ($25.) shall be paid
in advance, the whole amount
to be refunded if removed to a
private Lot in the Cemetery within
Ten (10) days
For each body remaining in
the Tomb more than three (3) months
an additional charge of four
dollars for each month of part
of a month thereafter will be
made but any body which has
remained in the Tomb three
months may be removed by
Supt at any time whenafter to
such place within the Cemetery
as the Com. on Interments may
direct.
The usual charge for interment
& record shall be made for each
deposit in the Recieving Tomb
and the same for removal therefrom

^ Trustee Rec. Vol VI. Page 124
this paragraph stricken out

^ A body deposited in the Receiving Tomb may be delivered by
The Superintendent
shall deliver any such body to the friends or relatives applying ^therefor for
it
in a legal manner, for removal at their own expense from the
Cemetery.

At military funerals no firing of volleys shall be allowed
within the Cemetery, excepting by special permission of the
President.

No grave nor tomb shall be opened for interment or removal
by any person not in the employ of the Corporation.

ARTICLE VI.

CARE AND CONDITION OF LOTS.

When a burial lot or other parcel of ground shall have been
sold, it shall be graded, suitable boundary-stones erected, and
its designation by number or otherwise legibly displayed by
the proprietor, within sixty days from the sale of the deed;
or the Committee on Lots may, at any time thereafter, cause
such work to be done at the expense of said proprietor.

[Trustee meeting Nov. 13. 1878 - Trustee Rec. vol. VI. Page 198]

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