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| Keywords: 1880s cemeteries deseronto cemetery deserontocemetery rules document text writing monochrome indoor "21. Proprietors who may wish either to enclose their lots, construct vaults, or have their boundaries more fully defined, must first apply to the Superintendent on the premises, who must be present, whose directions they will conform to on these occasions, as well as in the erection of other improvements, attending at funerals, etc.; and it is to him the Directors look for the enforcement of these rules, and for the maintenance of decoram in the Cemetery on all occasions. Rules Concerning Agents of the Company and Men In Its Employ The Superintendent shall reside at the Cemetery, and under direction of the Directors shall have general custody thereof; shall keep the avenues, paths, and grounds in neat and satisfactory order, and as agent of the Company, shall have the sole power to engage and discharge workmen, and to order and arrange their respective duties. He shall see that the rights of the Company are respected by each and every individual entering the ground. 2. No officer or agent of the Company shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in buying or selling lots for proprietors. 3. The Superintendent shall not make exchanges or purchases of lots, or have any personal interest in any material used, without permission first had of the Committee on grounds. 4. No man on the Cemetery pay roll shall be allowed to work for any other party than the Cemetery Company. Work On Lots No person other than the proper officers and servants of the Company, shall be allowed to perform any work on any lot in the Cemetery without the authority of the Superintendent, who shall be responsible for all injury and damage done by his workmen whilst in his employ, either to the ground or other property of the Company or of any proprietor, shall remove all refuse material taken from his lot to places indicated. Marks And Bounds Of Lots The proprietor of each lot shall erect at his or her own expense, suitable land marks of stone or iron at the corners thereof, and shall also cause the number thereof to be legibly and permanently marked on the premises. And if the proprietor shall omit for ninety days after notice, to erect such land marks and mark the number, the Directors shall have authority to cause the same to be done at the expense of said proprietor. The Superintendent, when a burial lot or other parcel of ground shall have been sold, shall at any time after ninety days from the date of the said notice, at the expense of the proprietor of said lot or parcel of ground, put down suitable stone boundary posts, and cause the lot to be graded, and the number of the lot to be legibly cut upon one of said posts, unless the proprietor shall within that time give satisfactory evidence to the Superintendent that he will immediately proceed to place such posts upon his lot with the number inscribed. Neglected Lots The Superintendent shall, on or before the first Monday in May each year, report to the Directors a list of all lots which may be so much out of repair as to detract from the general good appearance of the Cemetery; upon which the proprietors of said lots of other persons interested therein shall be notified by the Secretary of their condition, and be urgently requested to put them in repair. In cases of gross neglect, when proprietors shall omit or refuse to repair their lots after such notice, it shall be within the discretion of the Committee on Lots to cause suitable repairs to be done at the expense of the proprietors. Repair Fund The Directors will receive in trust from any proprietor a sum money not less than one hundred dollars, the income of which shall be appropriated to the repair of his lot, according to the terms of trust given. The Directors may also guarantee the perpetual repair of lots, upon the payment to the Treasurer of such a sum of money as the Committee on Lots shall deem sufficient for that purpose. In the latter case if the repair fund should ever be lost, the whole property of the Company is held for the perpetual repair of such lots. All moneys received from proprietors for the purpose of keeping lots in repair, shall collectively constitute a separate fund, called the Repair Fund, and shall be kept invested, under the direction of the Committee on Finance, as the Directors may see fit, on such security as they may approve. Each lot, in relation to which such contract shall have been made, shall be credited in a book kept for the purpose with the principal sum given on account of said lot, and at the close of each year a rateable proportion of the net income of the whole Repair Fund, less one- half percent, shall be carried to the credit of each lot. The Secretary shall keep the Superintendent or Keeper informed as to the lots which the Company have agreed to keep in repair, and shall also state the sums paid by the proprietors as consideration for such agreements. The list of the lots, the repair of which has been contracted for by the Company, shall be published in each edition of the catalogue of proprietors, together with the names of the present owners, and the sums respectively paid on said lots." "21. Proprietors who may wish either to enclose their lots, construct vaults, or have their boundaries more fully defined, must first apply to the Superintendent on the premises, who must be present, whose directions they will conform to on these occasions, as well as in the erection of other improvements, attending at funerals, etc.; and it is to him the Directors look for the enforcement of these rules, and for the maintenance of decoram in the Cemetery on all occasions. Rules Concerning Agents of the Company and Men In Its Employ The Superintendent shall reside at the Cemetery, and under direction of the Directors shall have general custody thereof; shall keep the avenues, paths, and grounds in neat and satisfactory order, and as agent of the Company, shall have the sole power to engage and discharge workmen, and to order and arrange their respective duties. He shall see that the rights of the Company are respected by each and every individual entering the ground. 2. No officer or agent of the Company shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in buying or selling lots for proprietors. 3. The Superintendent shall not make exchanges or purchases of lots, or have any personal interest in any material used, without permission first had of the Committee on grounds. 4. No man on the Cemetery pay roll shall be allowed to work for any other party than the Cemetery Company. Work On Lots No person other than the proper officers and servants of the Company, shall be allowed to perform any work on any lot in the Cemetery without the authority of the Superintendent, who shall be responsible for all injury and damage done by his workmen whilst in his employ, either to the ground or other property of the Company or of any proprietor, shall remove all refuse material taken from his lot to places indicated. Marks And Bounds Of Lots The proprietor of each lot shall erect at his or her own expense, suitable land marks of stone or iron at the corners thereof, and shall also cause the number thereof to be legibly and permanently marked on the premises. And if the proprietor shall omit for ninety days after notice, to erect such land marks and mark the number, the Directors shall have authority to cause the same to be done at the expense of said proprietor. The Superintendent, when a burial lot or other parcel of ground shall have been sold, shall at any time after ninety days from the date of the said notice, at the expense of the proprietor of said lot or parcel of ground, put down suitable stone boundary posts, and cause the lot to be graded, and the number of the lot to be legibly cut upon one of said posts, unless the proprietor shall within that time give satisfactory evidence to the Superintendent that he will immediately proceed to place such posts upon his lot with the number inscribed. Neglected Lots The Superintendent shall, on or before the first Monday in May each year, report to the Directors a list of all lots which may be so much out of repair as to detract from the general good appearance of the Cemetery; upon which the proprietors of said lots of other persons interested therein shall be notified by the Secretary of their condition, and be urgently requested to put them in repair. In cases of gross neglect, when proprietors shall omit or refuse to repair their lots after such notice, it shall be within the discretion of the Committee on Lots to cause suitable repairs to be done at the expense of the proprietors. Repair Fund The Directors will receive in trust from any proprietor a sum money not less than one hundred dollars, the income of which shall be appropriated to the repair of his lot, according to the terms of trust given. The Directors may also guarantee the perpetual repair of lots, upon the payment to the Treasurer of such a sum of money as the Committee on Lots shall deem sufficient for that purpose. In the latter case if the repair fund should ever be lost, the whole property of the Company is held for the perpetual repair of such lots. All moneys received from proprietors for the purpose of keeping lots in repair, shall collectively constitute a separate fund, called the Repair Fund, and shall be kept invested, under the direction of the Committee on Finance, as the Directors may see fit, on such security as they may approve. Each lot, in relation to which such contract shall have been made, shall be credited in a book kept for the purpose with the principal sum given on account of said lot, and at the close of each year a rateable proportion of the net income of the whole Repair Fund, less one- half percent, shall be carried to the credit of each lot. The Secretary shall keep the Superintendent or Keeper informed as to the lots which the Company have agreed to keep in repair, and shall also state the sums paid by the proprietors as consideration for such agreements. The list of the lots, the repair of which has been contracted for by the Company, shall be published in each edition of the catalogue of proprietors, together with the names of the present owners, and the sums respectively paid on said lots." | ||||
