Exposition of the Plan and Objects of the Green-Wood Cemetery: An Incorporated Trust, Chartered by the Legislature of the State of New YorkNarine & Company, 1839 - 31 pages |
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10th Avenue 23d street 7th Avenue A. G. HAMMOND Alderman amendment applied APRIL 18 board of Trustees body corporate Burial Ground Capital Stock Cemetery corporation Cemetery lots Cemetery precinct Charles King charter chosen City of Brooklyn commissioners for laying Common Council consent conveyed Council of Brooklyn D. B. DOUGLASS dead Directors distance dollars election erection exempt family burying grave stone Henry E hereby Honorable Bodies hundred acres improving and embellishing institution Joint Stock Company laid land Laurel Hill Legislature line parallel lot or parcel lot proprietors MEMORIAL memorialists ment Monday of December Mount Auburn Necropolis object original act parcels of ground PASSED APRIL 18 payment picturesque Pierrepont point 100 feet population premises preservation proper provision purchase money Quadruple Lots respectfully sheweth Russell Stebbins Samuel Ward shrubs South Ferry Stockholders subscribed thereof three hundred thousand tion tomb tract trees undersigned whole York and Brooklyn
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Page 21 - ... shall be made by such of the stockholders as shall attend for that purpose, either in person or by proxy.
Page 27 - ... containing not less than two hundred square feet of land, or if there be more than one proprietor of any such lot...
Page 28 - ... in any court of competent jurisdiction, in the name of the said corporation, to pay all such damages as shall have been occasioned by his unlawful act or acts; which money, when recovered, shall be applied by the...
Page 22 - STATE OF NEW YORK, Secretary's Office. I have compared the preceding with an original act of the Legislature of this state on file in this office, and do certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original.
Page 20 - Cemetery," for the purpose of establishing a Public Burial Ground in the City of Brooklyn. SEC. 2. The Capital Stock of the said Corporation shall be three hundred thousand dollars, which shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and shall be deemed personal property, and be transferable on the books of the Corporation in such manner as the said Corporation shall by its by-laws direct.
Page 27 - Any person who shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument or gravestone, or other structure, placed in any cemetery...
Page 21 - ... stock, at such times, and in such proportions, and on such conditions as they shall see fit, under the penalty of the forfeiture of...
Page 6 - 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 and 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...
Page 28 - ... or gravestone, fence, railing or other erection, or for the planting and 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 purpose of this act, according to the terms of such grant, donation or bequest.
Page 28 - ... or shall wilfully destroy, cut, break, or injure any tree, shrub, or plant within the limits of...