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ACT OF INCORPORATION
SECTION 8. All moneys received from the sale of lots or otherwise, or the proceeds and income thereof, and all other property of said corporation, shall be applied to the appropriate uses and purposes of said association, to meet their necessary expenses, and to the improvement and enlargement of their cemetery grounds, except such as may be applied to the repayment of the capital, which, with the interest, may be repaid at such time or times, either in whole or in part, and in such way and manner, as the by-laws may provide or the directors order; and when so repaid, said shares shall cease, and the members of said corporation consist of such persons as are or shall become and be owners of lots in said cemetery, and who have and shall acquire the rights of membership by reason thereof in the way and manner hereinbefore provided.
SECTION 9. This act, or any part thereof, may be altered, amended, or repealed by the General Assembly.
Approved July 9, 1864.
AN ACT IN ALTERATION OF AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT CONCERNING LANDS "; BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF CONNECTICUT, MAY SESSION, A. D. 1867.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened :
SECTION 1. All grants and deeds of bargain and sale, and other con- veyances of land belonging to the Cedar Hill Cemetery, set apart for sepulchral purposes, shall be recorded at length in the records of lands in the town of Hartford, whether said land may be situated in Hartford or in the town of Wethersfield, in Hartford county, and nothing in the 20th section of the act of which this is an alteration shall be so construed as to require said grants, deeds, or conveyances to be recorded in the town of Wethersfield, but in every other respect said deeds, grants, and convey- ances shall be recorded according to the provisions of said 20th section.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved June 6, 1867.
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF POLICEMEN AT THE CEDAR HILL CEMETERY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened :
SECTION 1. The mayor of the city of Hartford may, from time to time, appoint one or more suitable persons, to be designated by the Cedar Hill
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Cemetery association, to be and act as policemen, upon the grounds and at the expense of said association. Such policemen shall hold office during the pleasure of the mayor. They shall wear in plain sight a suitable shield, marked "Cemetery Police"; shall enforce the rules of the association, and may arrest any persons violating, or who shall have violated, said rules; and they shall have within said grounds the power of the police of the city of Hartford.
SECTION 2. Resistance to such policemen shall be punished in the same manner and to the extent as is now provided by law for resistance to constables.
SECTION 3. The police court of the city of Hartford shall have juris- diction of all crimes committed upon the grounds of said association, and the breach of the reasonable rules and regulations of said association shall be held to be a breach of the public peace.
Approved, March 11, 1879.
SECTIONS ONE AND TWO, LOOKING SOUTHEAST.
By-Laws
ARTICLE 1. The name of the Corporation shall be the CEDAR HILL CEMETERY.
ARTICLE 2. The Officers of the Corporation shall consist of a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, and not less than ten or more than twenty-five directors.
ARTICLE 3. The annual meeting of the Corporation for the choice of directors and the transaction of other business shall be held in Hartford on the first Thursday in December in each year, at 3 o'clock, P. M., in the city office of the Cor- poration, or at such other time or place as may be designated by the directors.
ARTICLE 4. The secretary of the Corporation shall give notice of the annual meeting by advertisement in some daily newspaper published in Hartford, at least three days before the meeting. Special meetings may be called at any time by the directors, and shall also be called by the president or secretary, on the written application of ten lot owners, notice of which shall be given in the same manner as for annual meetings.
ARTICLE 5. Every lot owner shall be entitled to one vote, provided he shall have complied with all the by-laws, rules, and regulations of the cemetery, and provided further, that no person shall be considered a lot owner within the meaning of the seventh section of the act of incorporation by reason of having purchased rights for one or more single graves or interments in the cemetery grounds.
ARTICLE 6. Not less than five lot owners shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of the Corporation.
ARTICLE 7. The directors shall have control and manage- ment of the business and affairs of the Corporation; they shall present a report at every annual meeting with full statements
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of the condition of the Corporation, showing the receipts and disbursements for the year, assets, and liabilities.
ARTICLE S. Special meetings of the directors may be called by the president, or in his absence by the vice-presi- dent, or by any two of the directors, notice thereof to be given by the secretary. Not less than three shall consti- tute a quorum for doing business at any meeting of the directors.
ARTICLE 9. The directors at their first meeting after their election, or at some adjourned meeting thereof, shall choose a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, and such committees as they shall deem necessary, each and all of whom shall hold office until a successor is chosen and qualified. And the directors may at any time fill any vacancy which may occur among the officers or in their own number.
ARTICLE 10. The directors shall annually appoint from their own number an executive and finance committee of five who shall have general charge of the business and affairs of the Corporation while the board of directors is not in session.
ARTICLE 11. The directors shall have power to appoint a superintendent of the grounds of the Corporation, and to define his duties and powers. They shall also establish rules and regulations for the care of and admission to the grounds, for the grading of all the grounds, and the planting, trimming, and removal of all turf, flowers, shrubs, and trees; also in regard to the sale and price of lots and interments, the care and management of lots and burials therein, the use of tombs, and general police arrangements. No interment or disinter- ment shall be made, or monument, sepulchral memorial, or grave marks shall be placed on, or removed from, any lot without the approval of the directors under hand of the secretary.
ARTICLE 12. The secretary shall also keep a register or record of all sales of lots for burial purposes within the grounds of the cemetery, which shall show the number and size of the lot, the name of the purchaser, the date of the sale, the price paid, and such other matters as the directors shall require. A map or maps of the cemetery property,
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showing accurately the location and size of each lot, the loca- tion of all monuments, sepulchral memorials, tombs, and grave marks and graves, shall be deposited and shall always remain in the secretary's office, and duplicate copies of such map or maps shall be deposited in some other secure and accessible place, which shall be fixed upon by the directors.
ARTICLE 13. All sales of lots shall be by deed, for which a fee not exceeding two dollars and the government stamp shall be paid by the purchaser. The deed shall grant to the purchaser only the right of interment upon his lot or its use for burial purpose for himself and family, his heirs and de- visees, and such friends as may be buried therein, without any profit, gain, emolument, or advantage whatever to the pur- chaser or proprietor, and shall be subject to all the by-laws, rules, and regulations of the cemetery.
No sale or transfer of lots by any purchaser will be al. lowed or be valid except by reconveyance to the Corporation and upon the consent of the directors in writing under the hand of the secretary.
The deeds of lots shall be each signed and acknowledged by the president or vice-president, and secretary, who are hereby created the agents of the Corporation for this purpose, and shall be registered by the secretary before delivery.
ARTICLE 14. A committee of two shall be annually ap- pointed by the lot owners to examine and audit the accounts of the Corporation.
ARTICLE 15. The by-laws may be altered or amended at any annual or special meeting of the Corporation.
Rules and Regulations of
Cedar Hill Cemetery
1. When graves are to be opened a permit issued by the Registrar of Vital Statistics must, in conformity to law, be furnished to the Secretary at his office in the city ; the Secre- tary will then issue an order to the Superintendent to open the grave. Notice should be given so as to allow as much as eight hours of daylight for the work. No interment or disinterment will be allowed without such order, and no grave will be or- dered opened, or interment made, or tomb opened, on Sunday, unless required for public health. A charge of $5.00 is made for opening, closing, turfing, and perpetual care of a grave not less than four feet long and five feet deep, and $4.00 for all under that length. No grave to be less than four feet deep. Brick graves laid in cement with flagging at bottom and top will be built by the Corporation as per schedule to be obtained of the Secretary. Ample time should always be given for this work.
2. The owner of a lot may have erected a proper monu- ment or sepulchral memorial, subject to the approval of the officers or directors. All slabs, tablets, or headstones less than four inches thick shall be laid horizontally ; all monumental work and grave marks must be on stone and cement founda- tions. Granite grave marks in one piece and placed three feet in the ground will be permitted ; and if placed at the head of the grave should be not more than eighteen inches above the ground ; and if at foot of grave not more than six inches above the ground. To protect the grounds and especially improved lots from injury, all excavations for vaults and all foundations must be made by the employés of the Corporation at the ex-
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pense of the lot owner. Foundations for monuments will be built of solid masonry not less than six feet deep and same size as the lower base of the monument, and level with the top of the ground. Foundations, graves, and grave marks to be not less than six inches within the lines of the several lots.
3. The proprietor of each lot shall furnish, to be erected by the Superintendent at his or her expense, such merestones or landmarks at the corners of his or her lot as shall be adopted by the Corporation.
4. No fence, hedge, railing, or coping will be allowed to enclose a lot.
5. Proprietors of lots may have planted by employés of the Corporation shrubs and plants upon their lots under advice and control of the Superintendent; but the right is reserved to remove at any time any shrubs, plants, trees, monuments, or inscriptions that are in any way objectionable or injurious. All rubbish collected on private lots must be removed to such places of deposit as are provided for the purpose. In case of failure to do so it will be removed at the expense of the lot owner.
6. All workmen employed in the construction of vaults, erection of monuments, or work of any kind, must be subject to the control and direction of the Superintendent of the cent- etery; and any workmen failing to conform to this rule will not be permitted to afterward work in the cemetery.
7. Heavy-laden teams will not be allowed to enter the cemetery in wet weather, or when in the opinion of the Super- intendent the roads are in danger of being injured; and no monumental work or grave marks can be moved on the sections on wheels.
8. No person, whether a lot owner or not, will be allowed on the grounds of the cemetery without a permit.
9. Neither bicycles nor vehicles, moved by hand or artifi- cial power, will be allowed on the grounds of the cemetery without a special permit.
10. No person with refreshments will be allowed to pass the gates.
11. No rapid driving will be allowed, and no driving on the sections.
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12. No person with firearms, or with dogs running at large, will be permitted to enter any part of the cemetery.
13. Children will not be admitted unless accompanied by guardians.
14. All persons are prohibited from touching any object not their own.
15. Drivers of carriages employed at funerals will be re- quired to remain quietly with their teams during the cere- monies. No horse may be left by the driver in the cemetery unhitched.
16. Any person disturbing the quiet and good order of the place by noise or other improper conduct, or who shall violate any of the foregoing rules, will be compelled instantly to leave the cemetery.
17. No money shall be paid, or gratuity, to any person in the employ of the Corporation in reward for any personal at- tention.
18. The gates will be opened at sunrise and closed at sun- set, when all persons must leave the cemetery.
19. The Superintendent is fully empowered, as special police, to arrest all who violate any reasonable rule of the Corporation.
SECTION TWO, LOOKING SOUTHWEST.
Explanations
ADVANTAGES
The great advantage which the lot owners possess in this cemetery over many others in this country is due to the purely benevolent character of the enterprise. The Corporation has no other end than the improvement, care, and ornamentation of these grounds. There are no longer any stockholders, and the Corporation consists of the lot owners, who elect the officers and are mutually entitled to all benefits. No profits can be appropriated to any other than the above purposes, and all funds accruing from the sale of lots must be held sacred for the same ends. Every lot and grave in the grounds is taken care of by the Corporation, without expense to the owner. The lawns on all the sections are cut by lawn-mowers as often as needful, and persons residing abroad may be assured that their lots are receiving the same attention as are the lots of resident owners.
TRUST FUNDS
The Corporation will gladly receive, invest, and expend the income of such funds as lot owners or others may bequeath for special purposes, such as the care of monuments or sepulchral memorials, ornamentation of lots, and the placing of cut flow- ers upon graves on Memorial Day, Easter, or other anniversa- ries, reserving only the right to maintain the general harmony and beauty of the grounds.
RECORDS
The Corporation is provided with the most ample and per- fect system for defining the boundaries of each lot and record-
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ing all interments therein, which will at once answer any question of the lot owner. Two sets of working or locating plans are kept, -one at the city office and the other at Cedar Hill. These show diagrams of each lot on the scale of forty feet to the inch, with the exact location of all monumental work, and every grave, the latter being marked with the number of the interment, running from the foot to the head. A third set of plans, eight feet to the inch and perfect in every detail, is deposited in a safety vault. A record of lots is kept, giving all needed information concerning them, and the same is pro- vided with a card index of all lot owners. A complete record in duplicate is also kept of all interments, showing the number, date, name of deceased, place of nativity, age, sex, condition, date and place of death, late residence, occupation, parents or kindred, cause of death, time of burial or entombment, section, lot, grave, undertaker, receipt of registrar's permit, and issue of Superintendent's notification. These particulars are deliv- ered to the Superintendent of the cemetery with every order to open a grave or deposit a casket in the tomb. All applications for information should be made at the city office.
Lors
In laying out lots the wants and circumstances of all classes have been considered, and in each section there are lots varying in size from twenty to one hundred feet square. Large lots are prepared to satisfy the demand for a "family burying ground," and are adapted to meet the needs of several generations. The prices of lots vary according to their size and location. A permanent grade is established in each section before the lots are offered for sale, which will in no case be changed.
PURCHASING LOTS
All persons desiring to purchase lots should visit the ceme- tery, where the Superintendent will be found in attendance and give all necessary information. After a selection has been made, they should at once bring their certificates to the city office and pay for their lots, for which a deed will be given.
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All deeds, wherever the lot may be located, are recorded in the town of Hartford.
TRANSFER OF LOTS
Attention is called to Article 13 of the By-Laws regarding the transfer of lots. This article provides that "no sale or transfer of lots by any purchaser will be allowed or be valid except by reconveyance to the Corporation and upon the con- sent of the directors in writing under the hand of the secretary." Under the statute a cemetery lot is not liable to execution, and while the directors of the Corporation will not object to the proper transfer of lots by original purchasers, they will endeavor to have the title inalienable, and render it impossible for heirs- at-law, by poverty or cupidity, to part with their inheritance and remove the bodies of the original owners.
DIVISION LINES
The boundaries of all lots are defined by the records and charts, and are indicated on the grounds by corner marks of cast-iron, having the lot number in raised figures on the top, and firmly set in the earth. No fence, hedge, railing, coping, or other device will be allowed to enclose a lot. When there are two or more persons interested as owners of a lot, no divi- sion lines within the same will be recognized by the Corpora- tion, all owners having equal rights of interment in the lot so long as there shall be room.
Томв
The receiving tomb, located near the Memorial Chapel, is of superior construction, substantial, well-ventilated, and dry, and affords ample accommodations. It may be used as occa- sion requires, and its use in the winter season is very desirable. Thus the committal service in the chapel can be appropriately performed and the dangers of the undue exposure of friends are avoided. It has not been customary to charge lot owners who have requested the use of the tomb for a reasonable length of time. All parties will receive due notice of the proper time for final interment.
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MONUMENTS
It is necessary in order to protect graves, improved lots, and the cemetery grounds from present or future injury that all excavations for vaults and all foundations be made by the employés of the Corporation. Foundations for monuments will be built of solid masonry, not less than six feet deep, the stone being quarried on Cedar Mountain and laid in cement grouted. This work is done at the expense of the lot owner, the price varying from twenty-five to sixty cents per cubic foot according to size. Grave marks will also be set by the employés. An estimate of the cost of such work will be fur- nished upon application with accompanying particulars.
BRICK GRAVES
All brick graves, when desired for interments, will be built by experienced masons under the supervision of the employés of the Corporation at the expense of the lot owner. The ap- proved standard requires that the sides be not less than four inches and the ends not less than eight inches in thickness, of brick wall laid in cement, with the top and bottom of pointed flag. The cost varies according to size.
MOUNDS
In laying out the cemetery it was the intention of the directors to prohibit mounds over graves. The plan of record- ing the location of graves is so complete that a mound is unnecessary to indicate the place of interment, especially when a marker is set. The early interments in the cemetery are not marked by mounds; subsequently, at the solicitation of lot owners, mounds have been permitted, but the directors prefer to carry out their original plan of a cemetery on the landscape lawn plan, which gives a better general effect.
SINGLE GRAVES
Single graves may be secured at a very moderate cost, sec- tions and lots being reserved for this purpose. Such graves
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receive the same external attention, care, and decoration as the other parts of the grounds.
BICYCLES AND AUTOMOBILES
The rules of the cemetery provide that "neither bicycles nor vehicles moved by hand or artificial power will be allowed on the grounds of the cemetery without a special permit." Passes are granted to those who are lot owners to enter the cemetery with a bicycle or automobile, upon application at the city office, and in all cases expire with the last day of the year during which they are issued. Another application must be made for a renewal.
Form of Deed
No.
CEDAR HILL CEMETERY,
A corporation legally constituted by the laws of the State of Connecti- cut, in consideration of the sum of Dollars, to them paid by of the Town of , County of , and State of , the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby grant,
bargain, sell, and convey to the said , h heirs and assigns forever,
the following described tract or lot of land, to wit: Lot number in
Section number , containing superficial feet, being a lot in the grounds laid out by said corporation for cemetery purposes, situated partly in the Town of Hartford and partly in the Town of Wethersfield, in the County of Hartford, in said State of Connecticut.
To have and to hold said granted premises unto the said and
to h heirs and assigns forever, as and for a burial place and for no other purpose whatever, subject, however, to the rules and regulations of said corporation, recorded on the books of said corporation in their office in the City of Hartford, and to such changes and alterations in the same as may hereafter be lawfully made by said corporation, and recorded in their said records.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the said corporation have caused these presents to be sealed with their seal, and signed by their President, and counter- signed by their Secretary, this day of , A.D. 19 Signed, scaled, and delivered in presence of [ Witnesses]
President. [L. s.]
Countersigned,
Secretary. [L. s.]
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, {ss. HARTFORD, A.D. 19
COUNTY OF HARTFORD,
Personally appeared , President, and , Secretary of the CEDAR HILL CEMETERY, signers of the foregoing instrument, and ac- knowledged the same to be their free act and deed, before me,
Notary Public.
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FORM OF ORDERS
Form of a Bequest of Money for the Care of Lots
I hereby give and bequeath to the CEDAR HILL CEMETERY the sum of
dollars, to have and to hold the same to the said Cedar Hill Ceme- tery and their successors, upon trust, however, to keep the same invested, and to apply the income thus arising therefrom, under the direction of the Board of Directors, to the repair, preservation, or renewal of any tomb, monument, or gravestone or other erection, or for planting and cultivating trees, shrubs, flowers, or plants upon, in, or around lot No. Section , in the grounds of said Cemetery.
Form of Order to Open Grave
ORIGINAL.
No.
HARTFORD, CONN.,
To the Superintendent,
CEDAR HILL CEMETERY:
ORDER TO OPEN GRAVE.
Name of Deceased,
Place of Nativity,
Age, Years,.
Months,
Days.
Single, Married, or Widowed,
Sex,
Date of Death, ..
Place of Death,
Late Residence, ......
Occupation, ..
Parents or Kindred,
Disease or Cause of Death,
Place in Tomb
....
Interment
Section Lot No.
Owner, ........
Grave. feet .... ..... inches long,
inches wide.
Undertaker, ......
Registrar's Permit rec'd
at ................... o'clock .M.
Superintendent notified
at o'clock M.
Opening Grave, $.
Secretary.
.....................
....
at .. .............. o'clock M.
at .. .. o'clock .. M.
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CEDAR HILL CEMETERY Form of Work Order [ORIGINAL. ]
No.
CEDAR HILL CEMETERY,
HARTFORD, CONN.,
Order for work on Lot Sec.
Charge to
Ordered by
Description of Work.
SECTION TEN, LOOKING SOUTHWEST
List of Lot Owners
Lot
Section
Lot
Section
Abbe, Burr R.
51
III
Baney, John A.
47
VI
Abell, Mary K.
51
V
Barber, Gardner P.
17
II
Abrams, Alva E.
167
V
Barber, James
120
IV
Allen, Annie P.
60
III
Barber, Mark
120
IV
Allen, Bernard
170
VII V
Barbour, Annie Gray
149
V
Allen, Charles D.
60
III
Barbour, Heirs of Lucius
14
XI
Allen, Francis B.
48
VI
Barker, Habiliah
195
III
Allen, Frederic
100
VII
Barnard, Eliza
30
III
Allen, Isaac G.
26
VI
Barnard, Miss Elizabeth A.232
30
III
Allen, John
42
II
Barnard, Henry
41
IV
Allen, Mary E. A.
5
V
Barnard, Howard R.
41
IV
Allen, Olcott
44
II
Barnard, Kenneth P.
41
IV
Allen, Ripley D.
180
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