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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

agreed to purchase, from the estate of the late
John Fisher, twelve and a half acres of land ad-
joining.said bury ing. ground en three sides, for the
proposed, cemetery, with a view to improve and
protect said meeting house and burying ground,
as well as to afford the inhabitants of Westmin-
ster and vicinity a larger and more improved place
of burial, which will be an ornament and credit to
the neighborhood; threfore,

Charter re-
vived.

Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That the charter
granted to the Trustees of the Westminister Gene-
eral Meeting House, in Frederick county, as afore-
said, be and the same is hereby revived; and that
all the rights, franchises, privileges and immuni-
ties conferred by the said charter on said Trustees
be and are hereby vested in the said Westminister
Cemetery Company, and the President and Mana-
gers thereof, with power to do all acts necessary
to protect and manage said meeting house and
burying ground, as fully as the Trustees elected

Proviso.

under said charter could have done; provided, that
they shall not interfere to prevent the free inter-
ment in said burying ground of all persons, as
heretofore allowed, in that part thereof intended
for burial purposes; and the said President and
Managers shall have the right to establish the
common entrance, or gate way, of the said burying
ground and cemetery at the present entrance to
the former at the east end of Church street, in
Westminister, and shall have the right of way
from said entrance, over the northwestern side of
said burying ground, to said meeting house, and
to the adjoining cemetery ground, and the power
to do all acts necessary to establish and keep said
gate way and road, for the common use of said
cemetery and burying ground; and shall also have
the power to alter and repair, or to take down, re-
move and rebuild the said meeting house, on its
old site, or as near thereto as may be most suita-
ble, and to dedicate the same for perpetual use, as
a chapel for the performance of funeral services,
in all cases of burial, either in said old burying
ground or new cemetery.

Penalties.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That any person who
shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or
remove any tomb, monument, grave stone, or other