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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
half feet long, and set even with the sur- 
face of the ground, and shall also cause 
the number thereof to be legibly and per- 
manently marked on such stones, and if 
the proprietor shall omit, for thirty days 
after notice to erect such landmarks and 
mark the number, the managers shall have 
the authority to cause the same to be done 
at the expense of the proprietor. 
3. All persons are prohibited from 
planting trees, shrubs or plants on lots or 
graves, and from planting any flowers in 
the cemetery grounds. Flowers are per- 
mitted in vases or urns, and cut flowers 
may be placed upon the graves or in bou- 
quet holders set level with the surface of 
the lawn, but will be removed as soon as 
they become faded and unsightly in 
appearance. 
4. Unfilled vases and urns, or unpainted 
and rusty settees will not be allowed to 
remain on lots after July 1st of each year, 
but will be removed from the lot and held 
subject to the order of the lot owner for 
twelve months, after which any responsi- 
bility of the cemetery ceases, and disposal 
will be made of the same. 
•5. The cemetery will not be responsil^le 
for anything of a movable character that 
may be lost, misplaced or broken. 
ti. The superintendent will give esti- 
mates to lot owners for sodding, grading 
and repair work of any kind. 
7. Floral designs or other decorations 
will be removed from lots or graves as 
soon as the flowers become wilted or un- 
sightly, and persons wishing to retain any 
must remove them within 48 hours after 
the funeral. 
8. Removal of interments will not be 
permitted between May 1st and October 
1st of each year. 
!l. If any trees or shrubs situated in 
any lot shall, by means of their roots, 
branches, height or otherwise, become det- 
rimental to the adjacent lots, walks or 
avenues, or dangerous or inconvenient to 
passengers, it shall be the duty of the 
managers, and they have the right, to 
enter into the said lot and remove the said 
trees or shrubs or such parts thereof as 
are thus detrimental, dangerous or incon- 
venient. 
10. All lots set with grass or sodded, 
and not unnecessarily encumbered with 
shrubbery, or otherwise, will be kept in 
order free of expense to the owner. 
11. Lots shall not be used for any other 
purpose than as a place of burial for the 
dead ; and no trees within the lots or bor- 
ders shall be cut down or destroyed with- 
out the consent of the managers of the 
corporation. 
12. If any monument, effigy, or any 
structure, or object whatever, or any in- 
scription be placed in or upon any lot, 
which shall be determined by the major 
part of the managers to be, or to have 
become, offensive, or improper or injurious 
to the appearance of the surrounding lots 
or grounds, the said managers shall have 
the right and it shall be their duty to 
enter upon such lot and remove the said 
offensive, improper, or unsightly structure 
or object. 
If any vault, tomb, sarcophagus, mau- 
soleum or like structure in which bodies 
are interred, be erected in or upon any 
lot, and same shall fall into a state of 
dilapidation or decay, which shall be de- 
termined by the major part of the man- 
agers to be offensive or in any way injuri- 
ous to the appearance of the surrounding 
lots or grounds, no adequate provision 
having been made by the owner for the 
repair and preservation of such structure, 
the said managers shall have the right and 
it shall be their duty to enter upon such 
lot and remove the said offensive or un- 
sightly structure and inter the body or 
bodies in the earth upon said lot, main- 
taining the lot in good condition similar to 
other lots where earth burials are made. 
13. Proprietors shall not allow inter- 
ments to be made in their lots for a re- 
muneration. All interments in lots' shall 
Ije restricted to the members of the family 
and relatives of the proprietor thereof, 
e.xcept special permission to the contrary 
be obtained, in writing, from the secretary. 
14. All deeds when executed shall be 
construed as simply granting to the pro- 
prietor, being tbe original purchaser of the 
lot conveyed, the right to use said lot for 
burial purposes, for the interment of him- 
self, his family, his relations and descend- 
ants, and such other persons as in his life- 
time he shall have procured the permission 
of the secretary to bury thereon as above 
provided. But such burial right shall not 
be transferable, either by voluntary or in- 
voluntary conveyance or by descent to any 
other person or persons without the ex- 
press consent of the board of managers of 
tbe cemtery. 
15. Private fences or enclosures around 
lots will not be allowed. 
lb. No interments are allowed until the 
payment for the lot is provided for as 
required by the regulations prescribed for 
the purchase of lots; and if at any time 
any note or notes, executed upon the exe- 
cution of a conditional contract for the 
purchase of a lot, shall be past due, no 
further interment shall be allowed thereon 
until such note or notes shall either be 
paid or the prompt payment thereon se- 
cured to the satisfaction of the lioard of 
managers. 
17. All graves shall be dug by workmen 
in the employment of the corporation, for 
which reasonable charges will be made. 
18. Proprietors wishing improvements 
on their lots must pay for the same to the 
superintendent when ordered. 
19. Trellises of any kind are prohibited 
on the grounds of the cemetery. 
20. No enclosures of any kind allowed 
around graves. 
21. All lot owners are prohibited from 
selling their lots in whole or in part, or 
from transferring the same without the ex- 
press permission of the board of managers 
of the Crown Hill Cemetery, and when- 
ever the board of managers shall, after 
an investigation of an individual case, 
agree to repurchase a lot formerly sold, 
payment will be made when the lot owner 
shall have conveyed by deed the lot to the 
cemetery, furnishing good and sufficient 
title, approved by the attorneys for the 
board, and no more will be paid than was 
originally received, and in no case will any 
lot be repurchased upon which there is an 
interment. 
22. No trees, plants or shrubs as bound- 
ary marks allowed. 
23. All graves to be sodded all over ; 
the mounds to be three inches in height in 
the center, with rounded sides and ends, 
except on single interment sections, where 
the graves will be made level with the 
lawn. All graves to be made, sodded and 
cared for by the cemetery. 
24. Lot-owners are prohibited from 
placing on lots or graves all toys, cases, 
boxes, globes, shells, cans, jugs, bottles 
and l)ric-a-brac of every description; any 
such articles found on the cemetery 
grounds will be removed. 
25. No wooden or cast-iron benches, 
chairs, settees or headl^oards, or any arti- 
cle of this kind allowed on the ground. 
2(i. Heavy loads will not be allowed to 
enter unless by permission of the super- 
intendent. 
27. The grading of all lots must be 
under the direction of the superintendent, 
and by bands employed regularly on the 
grounds. 
28. No burials will be allowed on Sun- 
day except when an immediate interment 
is ordered by the board of health. 
29. As Crown Hill Cemetery, under its 
present regulations, gives every grave and 
lot the necessary care to keep it perpetu- 
ally in good order and condition, no spe- 
cial funds for any special care or decora- 
tion of graves or lots will be received. 
30. No stone, cement or steel vault will 
be permitted on single interment sections. 
Special single interments will be pro- 
vided where vaults may be used. 
MONUMENTAL WORK. 
1. Plans for all monumental work must 
be submitted to the superintendent for his 
approval before contracting for the same. 
All monumental work must be brought 
into the cemetery grounds at the east 
entrance. 
2. All foundations for all stone work 
must be built by the cemetery, and must 
be ordered and paid for at the cemetery 
office at least two weeks in advance of the 
arrival of the work. 
3. All monuments and headstones must 
be of a good quality of granite, marble 
or other stone adapted to such purposes. 
No other material will be allowed in the 
cemetery grounds. 
4. Grave markers shall not exceed six 
inches in height, except on lots and sec- 
tions where there are higher markers, in 
which case markers will be limited to 
twelve inches in height. No sunken letters 
will be permitted on markers, unless it be 
