Chap. 290.      An Act authorizing the town of sandwich to
ACQUIRE AND ADMINISTER AND MAINTAIN CERTAIN CEMETERY PROPERTY IN SAID TOWN AS A PUBLIC CEMETERY.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. The town of Sandwich is hereby authorized to take by eminent domain, or to acquire by purchase or otherwise, title to certain land in said town used, or formerly used, as a private cemetery and owned by the Cedarville Cemetery Association in said town, and thereafter to hold and maintain said land for cemetery purposes, subject to all rights heretofore existing in any burial lots located therein. Upon the acquisition of said land by said town, it shall be and be used as a public burial ground, place or cemetery.
Section 2. Insofar as authorized by a decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and in compliance with the terms and conditions of such decree, said town may receive from the association a conveyance and transfer of, and administer, all funds or other property held by said association in trust for the perpetual care of the lots in said cemetery and for other purposes, and also any property devised or bequeathed to said association under the will of any person living at the time of said acquisition or under the will of any deceased person not then probated. Interests and dividends accruing on funds deposited, or funds deposited, in trust with any savings bank as authorized by law, or with any other banking institution, for the benefit of the association, or any burial lot therein, may, after the acquisition by said town, be paid by such bank or institution to the treasurer of said town; and upon such payment said treasurer shall use the same for the purposes of said trusts.
Acts, 1976.— Chap.291.
Section 3. All property and property rights acquired by said town under authority of this act shall be held and managed by said town in the same manner in which cities and towns are authorized by law to hold and manage property for cemetery purposes; provided, that all rights which any persons have acquired in the cemetery or any lots therein shall remain in force to the same extent as if this act had not been passed and such acquisition had not occurred. Any records of the association shall be delivered to the clerk of said town and he may certify copies thereof.
Approved, August 13, 1976.