Hold estate. SEC. 3. Said corporation shall have power to purchase and hold land, to be appropriated to, and used for a cemetery or burying-ground; they shall, also, have authority to receive gifts and bequests for the purpose of improving said cemetery; they shall have power to divide their land into lots and subdivisions for the purposes aforesaid, and to tax their property Power to tax. for purposes of general improvement of the same. SEC. 4. Said corporation shall have power to convey, by Power to convey deed or otherwise, any lot, or lots, upon their grounds, for purposes of sepulchre; when such lots shall have been surveyed and platted, they shall be recorded in the clerk's office of the county court wherein the same are situated, and shall not afterwards be changed or altered. All the grounds held by said association, and to be used for burial purposes, shall be exempt from public taxation while so used. Every lot Exempt from sold and conveyed in said cemetery shall be held by the proprietor for the purposes of sepulchre alone, and shall not be subject to attachment or execution. tax, attachment, &c. how authentica SEC. 5. All deeds of conveyance of lots in said cemetery Conveyances, shall be signed by the president and secretary, with the seal ted. of the corporation attached. All owners of lots purchased of said corporation shall become members thereof, and entitled to a vote in the election of its officers. punishments. SEC. 6. Any person who shall wilfully injure any of the offenses and tombs, mouments, ornaments, shrubbery, or fences belonging to said cemetery, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and also, shall forfeit, and pay, to the said association double the amount of damages sustained by means of such offence or injury, to be recovered in the name of the association, with costs of suit, in any court having jurisdiction of the same. SEC. 7. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. GUSTAVUS A. COLTON, Approved February 27, 1860. S. MEDARY, Governor. President of the Council. Corporate name. Powers Seal Proviso. Powers in corporate name. Proviso. May elect officers. Dispose of grounds. Other powers. CHAPTER XXX. AN ACT incorporating the Neosho Falls Cemetery Association. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the SECTION 1. That B. F. Goss, Peter Stevens, Whit ney, William Fisher, and William Phillips, their associates, SEC. 2. That said association shall be capable of holding, SEC. 4. That said association, by their corporate name, SEC. 5. That said association may make, ordain, and establish such by-laws and regulations as may be necessary for the government of the same, and shall provide for the e'ection of their own officers, and shall have power, until otherwise ordered by law, to establish all necessary regulations in relation to the disposition of the grounds and lots for burial purposes, and to regulate burials, and also for the protection of the burial grounds, and all useful or ornamental improvements thereon. SEC. 6. That said association may do all other acts not in be neces consistent with law or established usages, which may GUSTAVUS A. COLTON, Approved February 21, 1860. S. MEDARY, Governor. President of the Council. CHAPTER XXXI. AN ACT supplemental to an act entitled an act incorporating the Topeka Cemetery Association, approved February 2, 1859. [Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas:] veyances, how SECTION 1. That the original conveyance of lots in the original conTopeka Cemetery to individuals, shall be evidenced by a cer- evidenced. tificate, under seal, which shall vest in the proprietor, his heirs and assigns, a right, in fee simple, to such lot exempt from Exemption. execution, attachment, taxation or any other claim, lien or process whatever, for the sole purpose of interment, under the Topeka Cemetery regulations; and said certificate shall have the same force and effect as a deed, duly executed in other cases. punishment. SEC. 2. Any person who shall willfully destroy, mutilate, offenses and deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument, gravestone, building or other structure, placed in said cemetery, or shall willfully destroy, cut, break or injure any tree, shrub or plant, within the limits of said cemetery, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and such offender shall also be liable in an action of trespass, to be brought in such case in the name of the proprietor or proprietors of said cemetery, to pay all such damages as shall have been occasioned by his unlawful act or acts. Such money, when received, shall be applied to the plied. Fine, how ap Corporate name and powers. Consist of what persons. Officers. Proviso. CHURCHES. CHAPER XXXII. A BILL to incorporate the First Congregational Society of Hampden. SECTION 1. That Rodney Paine, James A. Grimes, John Morris, John Russel and W. A. Ela, and their successors in office, be and are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, to have perpetual succession, and to be known by the name of the Trustees of the First Congregational Society of Hampden, and by such name and style shall be legally capable of contracting, prosecuting and defending suits, and shall have capacity to acquire, hold, enjoy, dispose of and convey all property, real and personal, which they may acquire by donation, purchase or otherwise, for the purpose of carrying out the intentions of such society, but they shall not acquire or hold property for any other purpose. SEC. 2. That said society may consist of such persons as may associate themselves together for the purpose of estab lishing and maintaining religious worship of the Congregational order, and shall have power to make such by-laws and regulations, and elect such officers, as shall be necessary and expedient to its own government and the management of its own fiscal and other affairs. SEC. 3. Said society shall hold an annual meeting for the purpose of electing five trustees, three of whom shall be members of the Congregational church and two may be members of the society outside of the church; Provided, that no omission of the privileges and requirements hereby granted shall cause a forfeiture of the same, and no misnomer of the said corporation shall defect or annul any gift, grant, devise or bequest, to or from the said corporation. SEC. 4. Said society shall have power to hold such real Estate. estate as may be necessary for the erection of a church edifice and other buildings necessarily connected therewith, and for a parsonage house with necessary out buildings, free from taxation, together with the buildings thereon erected. SEC. 5. This act to take effect and be in force from and AN ACT to incorporate the first Methodist Episcopal Church of Leaven. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the SECTION 1. That George H. Weaver, Elijah Hughes, Jacob Corporate name. Landes, William B. Waugh, James R. Lunn, William H. Ferguson, and William Fairchild, of the city and county of Leaven worth, territory of Kansas, their associates and successors in office, as a board of trustees, be and are hereby constituted a body corporate, under the name of "The First Methodist Episcopal Church, Leavenworth city, Kansas," and by that name to have a continual succession. SEC. 2. That said corporation by that name shall be capa- Legal powers. ble of making contracts, of suing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, in all matters whatsoever, in all courts of law and equity. SEC. 3. That the corporation hereby created shall be capa- Estate, ble, in law and equity, of taking and holding by demise, purchase or otherwise, to themselves, their associates and successors, any real estate in fee simple or otherwise, any goods chattels or personal estate, and of selling, leasing, contracting, mortgaging, or in any other manner disposing of the said real estate, goods, chattels or personal estate, or any part thereof, |