Chap. 0112 An Act to incorporate the rock cemetery association. 

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Charles X. Atwood, Lucius M. Fuller, Abisha T. Clark, John Merrihew, James F. Shurtleff, Deborah Thomas, Emily Cushman, Ephraim Thomas, Edward C. Smith, Sarah T. Thomas, John h. Ryder, John A. Benson, Charles F. Cushman, Herbert L. Cushman, Alfred E. Thomas, Hiram Barrows, Amanda Wood, Sarah A. Gibbs, Hannah E. Sherman and Clement W. Barrows, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Rock Cemetery Association, for the purpose of acquiring, holding, maintaining, improving and enlarging for a place of burial of the dead certain land set apart and known as the " Rock Cemetery ", situated at Rock, so-called, in the town of Middleborough, Massachusetts. The said corporation shall have all the powers and privileges and shall be subject to all the restrictions and liabilities set forth in all general laws now or hereafter in force applicable to such corporations.
Section 2. The said corporation is hereby authorized to acquire possession and control of said cemetery, and may purchase from time to time and may acquire by gift, bequest, devise or otherwise, and may hold, so much real and personal property as may be necessary or appropriate for the purposes of said association: provided, that nothing herein contained shall affect the individual rights of proprietors in said cemetery.
Section 3. Only persons who now are or who hereafter become proprietors of lots in the land included in said cemetery, or which may hereafter be included in said cemetery, whether by deed or otherwise, and who shall sign the by-laws of said corporation, shall be members of the corporation; and whenever any person shall cease to be the proprietor of a lot, or of an interest in a lot, in said cemetery, he shall cease to be a member of the corporation.
Section 4. The net proceeds of the sale of lots in the lands of the corporation and all income received from any other source by said corporation, the use of which is not determined by a trust, shall he applied exclusively to the care, maintenance, improvement or embellishment of its cemetery and the structures therein, or to the purchase of additional land for cemetery purposes, and to the payment
of current and incidental expenses of the cemetery, and to no other purpose.
Section 5. Said corporation is authorized to take and hold any grant, gift or bequest of property in trust given or bequeathed for the care,- protection, embellishment, improvement or extension of its cemetery, or for the care, embellishment, protection or improvement of any lot therein, or for the care, repair, preservation or removal of any monument, tomb, fence or other structure therein, or for planting a lot or its vicinity with trees or shrubs; and when such gift or bequest is made the said corporation may give to the person making the same or to his representative an obligation binding the corporation to fulfill the terms of the trust.
Section 6. Said corporation may by its by-laws provide for such officers as may be necessary, and define their powers and duties, and may also provide for the care and management of the cemetery and for the sale of lots therein, and for the management of any funds which it may hold, and for any other matters incident to the purposes of the corporation.
Section 7.   This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved February 10, 1007.