Trustees Records, Vol. 6, 1875, page 17

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No other person than the proprietor himself or the proper
officers and servants of the Corporation, shall be allowed to
perform any work on a lot or parcel of ground without a permit
from the Secretary. Proprietors may obtain such permits
upon a written application, to be renewed annually. All such
employes shall be under the supervision and control of the
Superintendent.
^ ^{Provided that no work shall at any time be done by other persons than the
proper officers or servants of the Corporation upon those lots of which the perpetual care, or the
care of the turfing or sodding, has been aproved by the Corporation, by deed or contract.
Trustees' Rec. Vol. VI, p 103}

Proprietors may erect on their lots ^^{unless otherwise provided by the terms of the deed given therefor.
Trustees Rec. Vol VI. pp 55,56} fences, live hedges, ^
^{(Trustees' Rec. Vol VI, pp 4,5,7)}
monuments and stones, subject in all respects to the approval
of the Committee on Lots. The use of wood or slate for
any such purposes shall not be allowed. Trees shall only be
removed therefrom by direction or consent of the Committee
on Grounds. ^ ^{Provided that if such
Lot is in that portion of the
Cemetery set apart by vote
of the Trustees passed Nov. 19, 1873,
it shall be graded, sodded,
marked, and thereafter
kept in repair by the Corporation.
And no other person
than the proper officers and
servants of the Corporation shall
be allowed to perform any
work thereon. And on any
such Lot no fences, curbing or
hedges will be permitted;
and no head-stone at any
grave shall exceed two feet
and six inches in height from
the ground, Except by vote of the Trustees upon special application.
(Rep. of Com. on Rules & Reg. adopted April 23 1875. Trustees Rec. Vol. VI. p. 4)}

Catacomb tombs with entrance-doors above ground may be
constructed in such places and manner as shall be approved
by the Committee on Lots. No bodies shall be placed therein
except in single compartments to be hermetically closed with
brick or stone and cement.

The devisee of a deceased proprietor shall furnish the Secretary
with the evidence of his title, which shall be recorded in
a book kept for that purpose; and a person claiming to be
the sole heir-at-law of a deceased proprietor, shall furnish an
affidavit setting forth the facts necessary to establish such
claim, which shall be filed with the papers of the Corporation;
and in either case proper reference thereto shall be made upon
the margin of the record of the original deed.

The devisees, or heirs-at-law of a deceased proprietor, or
the guardian of such persons, desiring the appointment of a
person to represent the lot owned in common by them, shall
make written application to the Trustees for that purpose.

Any person designated by a company, society or association,
whether corporate or not, which may own a lot of not less that
three hundred square feet, shall represent such lot and may
vote at all meetings of the Corporation.

ARTICLE VII.

RECORDS AND PLANS.

There shall be kept at the office of the Secretary all the
books necessary for recording the original deeds of lots, of