HomeMy WebLinkAbout0131_0003authorized# empowered and directed to execute and deliver
for and in the name of the City of Georgetown at any time
to any pesons of African descent proper deeds of conveyance
to any lots shown in said plat in the North tier of lots
numbered from 1 to 75 or in the South tier of lots numbered
from 1 to 54# upon payment by such person into the treasury=
of the City of Five Dollars cash and upon such person paying
the necessary costs of eseouting said deed# but in no case
shall more than one lot be conveyed to any person unless there
is no more room for the burial of bodies in the first lot con-
veyed to such person.
Section 4. The money received on the sale of lots as
provided in the next preceding section shall be kept in a fund
to be known as The Oak Hill Oemetery Bund# and shall be set
aside and used only for the care and improvement of said ground#
and shall be expended only upon the order of the City Council.
Section 5. The two tiers of strips of land on the lest
end of said 4* acres and as shown on said plat and each tier
being numbered from 1 to 4 is hereby not aside as a burial
ground for the bodies of deceased persons of African descent who
own no lot and whose people are too poor to buy such lot. The
bodies buried in such strips shall be buried therin in regular
order# as followss the first grave shall be in the South and
of strip No. 1 of the South tier, and the next grave shall be
placed as close to the first as can conveniently be done until
said strip is full and then the other strips in the South tier
shall be filled in numerical order in the same scanner# and then
the strips in the North tier shall be used in numerical order
in the same way.
Section 6. At the regular meeting of the City Council
in Mays 1906 and every two years thereafter the Mayor, by and
with the advice and consent of the Council shall appoint a
committee of five reputable negroes residing in this City# whose
duty it shall be to namages control# and care for said ground
herein set apart for the burial of persons of African descent#
and to supervise the burial of bodies therein and such com-
mittee shall perform such other duties as may be directed by
the Council frost time to time.
Section 7. A strip of land Twenty-four feet wide and ad-
joining the 4* acre tract hereinbefore mentioned on the West is
hereby set aside as a burial place for the bodies of deceased
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