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vert to the corporation. Such reversion shall not authorize the removal of any body that may have been interred therein, nor of any tablet, stone, or other monument.

SEC. 14. Any religious, charitable, or benevolent society, or any organization for the benefit of mankind, may purchase and hold, subject to this charter and the rules and regulations of the corporation, any lot or lots offered for sale by the said corporation, and may dedicate or consecrate the same by the ceremonies or services which they may deem proper, or according to their usage, and may hold and pass the same to their successors forever.

SEC. 15. The persons hereinbefore named as corporators, having acted as commissioners to receive subscriptions to said capital stock, and having obtained subscriptions to the same to the amount of more than fifteen thousand dollars, are hereby empowered to organize as the board of trustees of the Magnolia Grove Association; and it shall be lawful for the said commissioners, or a majority of them, to receive subscriptions, and to require payments of the sums, to be subscribed to the capital stock at such time, and such payments, and on such conditions as they, or a majority of them, shall deem fit, under the penalty of the forfeiture of all previous payments thereon, and shall give notice of the payments thus required, and of the place and time when the same are to be paid, at least thirty days previous to the payment of the same, in at least two public newspapers of the city of Galveston.

SEC. 16. The said corporation may take and hold, subject to such regulations of the board of trustees as may be determined by said board, any grant, donation, or be quest of property upon trust, to apply the same, or the income thereof, under the direction of the board of trustees, for the improvement or the embellishment of said cemetery, or for the erection, repair, preservation, or renewal of any tomb, monument, or grave stone, fence, railing, or other erection, or for the planting or cultivation of trees, shrubs, flowers, or plants in or around any cemetery lot, or for improving the said premises in any other manner or form consistent with the design and purposes of this charter, according to the terms of such grant, donation or bequest.

SEC. 17. The superintendents and keeper of the gates, and their assistants, shall, by virtue of their office, be in

vested with all the powers of police officers within the cemetery grounds and within two hundred yards of its boundaries, for the purpose of the preservation of the public peace, protection of the grounds and improvements, prevention of indecency, and enforcing the provisions of this charter, the by-laws of the corporation, and the laws of the State. It shall be the duty of said corporation to keep an accurate record of all interments in said cemetery, stating the nativity, age, occupation, cause of death, and time of death of the person to be buried; and no interment shall be made in said cemetery without · the certificate of some physician of the cause of the death and the fact thereof.

SEC. 18. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Magnolia Grove Association shall be held in Galveston, at such place and hour as the board of trustees vide, on the first Monday of April of each year. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved June 2d, 1873.

CHAPTER CCXCV.

An Act to incorporate the Central Wharf and Warehouse Company, of Corpus Christi, Texas.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That Perry Doddridge, Allan M. Davis, Richard King, Uriah Lott and Weyman N. Staples, and their associates, successors and assigns, be and they are hereby constituted and created a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of the "Central Wharf and Warehouse Company;" and by that name shall be capable of suing and being sued; contracting and being contracted with; may have a corporate seal; rent, own, acquire by purchase or otherwise, or sell any and all water rights and property, real, personal or mixed, necessary to carry out and to accomplish the objects of this incorporation; and shall have and exercise all and every power necessary for the purpose of its creation and maintenance; and may establish and enforce such by-laws, rules and regulations as from time to time may become requisite to manage and govern the company, the business transacted,

and all transactions in, connection therewith; provided, the same be not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this State or of the United States.

SEC. 2. The purposes and objects of said company are the maintaining, operating, erecting, constructing, building and establishing, within the corporate limits of the city of Corpus Christi, in Nueces county, attached to and extending from the water fronts of any lot or lots of ground within said city that may be owned by said company, permanent and substantial wharves and piers, if necessary, over and across the flats, shallows or reefs in front or outside of any such lot or lots, to such depth of water in said Corpus Christi Bay as may be required in the interest of commerce and navigation, for the safe mooring of all steam and water crafts capable of entering said bay through Aransas Pass, and for the safe and expeditious discharging, or loading, landing, receiving, delivering and storing of all freights and cargoes of all steamships, vessels and water crafts so entering the port of Corpus Christi; and to have and maintain on such wharf or wharves, or pier or piers, attached or adjacent thereto, suitable and substantial warehouses of capacity sufficient for the storage of such freights and cargoes.

SEC 3. The capital stock of said company shall be fifty thousand dollars, with power to increase the same to one hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of such sums as the company, through their board of directors, may determine. The persons named in the first section of this act shall constitute the board of directors until such time as the stockholders shall determine and shall elect another board; and they shall have authority to open books of subscription for stock, and to issue certificate therefor, in such form and at such time and places as they may fix upon. The office of said company, and the legal domicile thereof, shall be in the city of Corpus Christi.

SEC. 4. That said company shall have power, and be entitled to ask, demand, sue for and recover wharfage, moorage and storage, as compensation for the use of their wharves, piers and warehouses, at such rates as may be reasonable and customary in other Texan seaports, and from time to time may be fixed and established by the regulations or by-laws of the company adopted by the board of directors.

SEC. 5. That this company may receive real, personal and mixed property, or either, and water rights and other privileges, as capital stock in said company, but no such property, rights, or privileges shall be received as stock at a higher valuation than that fixed by appraisers appointed by the company, and which valuation, in writing, signed by such appraisers, shall be entered upon the records of the company.

SEC. 6. That it shall be lawful for the company, through the board of directors, when necessary, in accordance with the provisions of their by-laws, to borrow or obtain loans of money for the use of the company, and as security therefor to pledge or mortgage all or any part of their estate, assets, privileges and franchises, and to issue bonds, with or without coupons, convertible in whole or in part into the stock of the company, on such terms and at such rates of interest as the board of directors, or a majority of them, may deem expedient.

SEC. 7. That by its corporate name this company shall have succession for and during sixty years from the passage of this act, and during such time shall possess all the powers herein enumerated, and all others incident to corporations under any general law of this State; but no stockholder shall be liable or responsible for the contracts, faults and neglects of, or damages done by the company, in any further sum than the value of the shares of stock owned by such stockholder.

SEC. 8. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved June 2d, 1873.

CHAPTER CCXCVI.

An Act providing for an Election of Officers for the Town of Cameron.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That an election of mayor, six aldermen, one collector, a treasurer, and one secretary, for the town of Cameron, in Milam county, be held in said town, at the court house, on the twelfth day of August, 1873. That for ten days before the election the presiding justice of said county is directed to register, in a book for that

purpose, the persons resident in said town for sixty days next before the election, and entitled to vote under the Constitution of this State; and in making said registration he will be governed by the general registration law, so far as applicable; and when completed he will certify to the correctness of said registration, and append his certificate to said book of registration The said presiding justice will appoint the presiding officer of said election, and deliver to him the said book of registration, who will hold the same according to the general election law, and make return thereof to said presiding justice in two days thereafter, and the said justice will then declare the result of the election, and give certificates to those persons who shall have received the greatest number of votes for said offices, respectively. The officers thus elected will take the oath prescribed by the Constitution in ten days after the election, or the office shall be considered vacant.

SEC. 2. The presiding officer will deliver to the mayor the said book of registration, to be deposited in his office; and the mayor shall, for ten days before every succeeding election, revise the same, and add others who may be entitled to vote as prescribed in the general laws, so far as applicable, and shall appoint the presiding officer of the election to hold the election and make returns to said mayor, who, with the board of aldermen, will determine the result of the election.

SEC. 3. That this act take effect from and after its passage.

Approved June 2d, 1873.

CHAPTER CCXCVII.

An Act to incorporate the Little River Academy, near the Village of Harrisville, in Bell County,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That L. J. Russell, Pleasant Marshall, Thomas Loveless, James Moseley and John Greathouse, be and are hereby created a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of the "Little River Academy;" and as such they are hereby authorized and empowered to erect a suitable building or buildings on Little River,

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