CEMETERIES 301 



RULES FOR MAINTAINING CEMETERIES 



A landscape in the cemetery should improve with 

 years of growth. It must first be intelligently de- 

 signed, and then receive care and attention from 

 someone familiar and in sympathy with the scheme 

 adopted. To insure such attention, and to protect 

 the interest of all lot-owners, as well as to maintain 

 the dignity and character of a city of the dead, rules 

 have been adopted by all leading cemeteries. These 

 are the result of study and experience on the part 

 of many men. At a meeting of the Association of 

 American Cemetery Superintendents, held at Boston, 

 in 1890, the following rules were recommended by a 

 unanimous vote of those in attendance : 



RULE i. (This should be a general rule, stating the author- 

 ity and conditions on which lots are sold and the restrictions 

 on transfers. The rule, of course, would have to be varied 

 according to conditions existing in each cemetery.) 



RULE 2. The trustees desire to leave the improvement of 

 lots, as far as possible, to the taste of the owners; but, in jus- 

 tice to all, they reserve the right, given them by law, to exclude 

 or remove from any lot any headstone, monument or other 

 structure, tree, plant, or other object whatever which may 

 conflict with the regulations, or which they shall consider in- 

 jurious to the general appearance of the grounds ; but no trees 

 growing within any lot shall be removed or trimmed without 

 the consent of the trustees. 



