Chap. 0156 An Act authorizing the pine grove cemetery association to acquire and administer the property of the curtiss additional cemetery association in the town of sheffield, and further authorizing said first-named association to acquire and hold additional property.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. - Pine Grove Cemetery Association, a corporation incorporated by chapter twenty-five of the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, is hereby authorized to acquire, and thereafter to hold and maintain, but for cemetery purposes only, and subject to all rights heretofore existing in any burial lots, the real and personal property, not subject to any trust, of the Curtiss Additional Cemetery Association, an unincorporated association, and, as hereinafter provided, the funds and other property held in trust by said unincorporated association.

Section 2. In so far as authorized by the decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and in compliance with the terms and conditions of such decree, said Pine Grove Cemetery Association may receive from said Curtiss Additional Cemetery Association a conveyance and transfer of, and administer, all funds or other property held by said Curtiss Additional Cemetery Association in trust for the perpetual care of the lots in its cemetery and for other purposes, and also any property devised or bequeathed to said Curtiss Additional Cemetery Association under the will of any person living at the time of said transfer or conveyance or under the will of any deceased person not then probated.

Section 3. Said chapter twenty-five is hereby further amended by striking out section two and inserting in place thereof the following section: - Section 2. Said corporation may acquire, by purchase, lease or otherwise, and dispose of, real and personal property for the purpose aforesaid; provided, that it shall not hold real and personal property to an amount exceeding ten thousand dollars.

Section 4. This act shall not take full effect until it shall have been accepted, on the part of said cemetery corporation, by vote of the board of directors, and on the part of said unincorporated cemetery association, by vote of the members, and a certified copy of each of said votes shall have been filed with the clerk of said town and with the state secretary. Approved April 8, 1941.