Chap. 0237 An Act concerning Woodlawn Cemetery and deeds of lots therein.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :
Sect. 1. The Woodlawn Cemetery, as now established and as organized at a meeting held on the thirty-first day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty, and on other days by adjournment therefrom, is hereby declared to be a corporation and body politic, and entitled to all the rights, benefits and provisions, of the one hundred and fourteenth chapter of the aets of this Commonwealth, approved on the seventeenth day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, aud subject to the provisions contaiued in the by-laws of such corporation.
Sect. 2. The trustees and officers of the said corporation shall usually be chosen or appointed annually, but they shall severally continue in power until removed or others shall have been chosen or appointed in their place; and the said corporation shall not be deprived of any of its corporate rights by reason of any mistake or omission iu regard to its meetings, or any unintentional neglect of any officer thereof, nor shall any deed of any lot in the cemetery of such corporation be deemed invalid for any such cause, provided the same shall have been made in good faith, and scaled with the corporate seal and recorded in the books of the corporation.
Sect. 3. The clerk of the said corporation may be styled the secretary thereof, and he shall keep proper books of record, wherein shall be carefully recorded all deeds of burial lots made by the corporation; for which record the secretary shall be entitled to receive such reasonable compensation as the trustees may determine; and it shall not be necessary to record such deeds in any other registry.
Sect.' 4. The provisions of the seventh section of the act aforesaid, approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, shall apply to all the shares, property and effects of said corporation, so long as its real estate shall remain dedicated to the uses and purposes of a cemetery or burial-place for the dead.
Sect. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage, upon being accepted by said corporation at a meeting to be called for the purpose. [Approved by the Governor, April 27, 1855.]