8 
THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
Every cemetery should be governed by certain rules and 
regulations, which should be printed in pamphlet form for distri- 
bution among lot owners. While this has been done in most of 
the large cemeteries, where the rules are very much alike, we 
will, for the benefit of the smaller cemeteries, publish in this de- 
partment such rules as commend themselves for general adoption. 
Contributions are solicited. 
Rules for Stone Work in Qraceland Cemetery, Chicago. 
1. No stone work of any kind shall be admh- 
ted to the cemetery, or foundation built for the 
same, until a design for such work shall have been 
submitted to the superintendent and approved by 
him. 
For headstones or footstones, a sketch on the 
back of the foundation order will be deemed suffi- 
cient; for monuments, designs drawn to a scale 
must be furnished, accompanied by a certificate 
signed by the lot-owner and contractor stating that 
so far as they know the design submitted is not a du- 
plicate of any now in the cemetery. 
The above rule is made to save stonecutters the 
loss which they sometimes suffer from executing a 
design not in accordance with the rules of the cem- 
etery. 
2. Mausoleums can be built only when the de- 
signs and locations for them have been approved by 
the board of managers. 
3. All foundations shall be built by the Ceme- 
tery Company. They must be ordered fifteen days 
before needed, and must be paid for in advance. 
The charge for foundations containing eighteen 
cubic feet or less will be 35 cents per cubic foot; 
between eighteen and twenty-one cubic feet, $6.30; 
more than twenty-one cubic feet, 30 cents per cu- 
bic foot. An extra charge of 5 cents per cubic 
foot will be made for foundations laid when the 
ground is frozen. 
No coping, or any kind of lot or grave enclo- 
sure, or steps to lots, will be admitted to the cem- 
etery. 
Corner posts for lots are furnished and set by 
the Cemetery Company. 
5. In * certain portions of the cemetery, no 
monuments will be permitted. 
On certain lots in Bellevue section, monuments 
must not exceed eight feet in height. 
In other portions of the cemetery not here nam- 
ed, one monument will be permitted on one burial 
plot. 
6. Headstones and footstones, or any struc 
tures used to mark graves, must not exceed eight 
inches in height above the surface of the ground, 
must not be less than six nor more than fifteen inch- 
es thick, and must not exceed thirty inches in width. 
Where headstones are used, footstones will not be 
allowed. + 
On certain lots in Fairlawn section, they must 
not exceed four inches in height. 
In Maplewood section, and on certain lots in 
Bellevue section, they must not project above the 
surface of the ground. 
At single graves, stones must not exceed the 
width of the grave, 18 inches for children’s and 30 
inches for adults’ graves. 
7. In certain sections, headstones or footstones 
must not exceed thirty inches in height and must 
not be less than four inches thick. 
8. No monument or grave marker shall be con- 
structed of other material than cut stone or real 
bronze. 
No monument or grave marker will be admitted 
which is cut in imitation of a log or stump, or of 
any other object which would itself not be allowed 
to remain in the cemetery. 
9. Persons engaged in erecting monuments or 
other structures are not permitted to attach ropes 
to other monuments, or to trees, except by permis- 
sion of the superintendent; or to scatter material 
over adjacent lots or to leave the same on the 
ground longer than is absolutely necessary. They 
are required to set their work as soon as possible af- 
ter it enters the cemetery, and will be held respon- 
sible for any damage done to the grass, trees, or 
any object whatsoever in the cemetery, and must be 
subject to the control and direction of the super- 
intendent. On Saturdays and on the day before 
Decoration day, no material of any kind will be ad- 
mitted to the cemetery after twelve o’clock at noon. 
10. The managers reserve the right to make 
exceptions to the foregoing rules in favor of designs 
which they consider exceptionally artistic and orna- 
mental, and such exceptions shall not be construed 
as a repeal of any rules. 
The superintendent is direeted to enforce the 
foregoing regulations, and to exclude from the cem- 
etery any person wilfully violating the same. 
11. Special rules for certain sections may be 
made at any time hereafter by the board of mana- 
gers, and enforced without previous notice to stone- 
cutters. 
FORM OF CERTIFICATE. 
So far as we know the monument shown by the 
accompanying design is not a duplicate of any mon- 
ument now in Graceland cemetery 
. . . : Lot-owner. 
Contractor. 
The portions are indicated in the circular. 
t This rule applies to certain parts of the grounds. 
