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PARK AND CEMETERY 
special care contract, use the interest of the permanent fund. 
Concerning trustees, nearly all states have laws that gov- 
ern the formation of cemetery associations. 
Amount of deposit required from individual lot holders 
for perpetual care of their lots is 25 cents per square foot. 
We do not accept any amount less than $50.00. 
Basis of 3 per cent can be allowed on perpetual care funds. 
J. C. Cline, Supt. 
City Cemeteries, Burtington, Vt. 
BOND FOR PERPETUAL CARE. 
THE BOARD OF CEMETERY COMMISSIONERS, BURLING- 
TON. VERMONT. 
Cemeteries — Lake View, Green Mount, Elmwood. 
Know all Men by these Presents: — 
Whereas 
of 
has paid, assigned and made over to 
the present 
Cemetery Commissioners of said City of Burlington, and 
their successors in office forever 
IN TRUST, to apply the income thereof annually in the im- 
provement and embellishment of Lot No 
Area in Cemetery 
in said City of Burlington, of which Lot 
now holds a deed from said Cemetery Commissioners. The 
said directs that said 
trust fund be kept and invested in the manner and by the 
officers mentioned and provided in section 3601 of the Ver- 
mont Statutes and the amendments thereof. 
The said Commissioners hereby agree to appropriate the 
annual income of said trust fund in the following manner, 
V'iz: to the proper care of the grass and memorial stones on 
said lot 
so far as said income will provide. Any portion of the in- 
come that shall not be needed for the above purposes said 
Commissioners are authorized to expend in such manner as 
in their judgment shall most conduce to the improvement 
and embellishment of said Lot and the approaches thereto. 
The principal of the above Trust is deposited with the 
Treasurer of the City of Burlington, to be safely kept by 
him and properly invested as above provided. 
And we, the present Cemetery Commissioners of said 
City of Burlington, do for ourselves, as commissioners, and 
for our successors in office, bind ourselves and our suc- 
cessors in office to execute the above stated Trust, so far 
as authorized so to do by section 3600 of the Vermont 
Statutes and the amendments thereof, by setting our hands 
and seals hereto, this day of A. D. 19. . . 
is especially appropriate, the cemetery being conducted en- 
tirely upon the modern lawn plan, and in no place are roses 
grown with more success or in greater profusion. 
* * * 
The directors of the W esleyan Cemetery at Cincinnati, 
Ohio, have notified their lot owners that Sunday funerals will 
be permissible only in cases of urgent necessity, says the Em- 
balmcrs’ Monthly. The resolution adds that Sunday funerals 
are an encroachment on the right of every man to enjoy one 
day of rest and worship each week, and that undertakers, 
carriage drivers, ministers and cemetery employes are thereby 
forced to do extra work. The directors ask ministers and 
undertakers to assist them in carrying out the spirit of these 
resolutions. 
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A report was made to the Ethnological Department at 
Washington recently of the discovery at Webber’s Falls, on 
the Arkansas River, in Indian Territory, of the largest prehis- 
toric burial ground ever found on the continent. The burial 
ground is two miles long and contains the bodies of many 
thousand persons, presumably mound builders. The discovery 
is thought the more important in that it may lead to some- 
thing definite regarding that prehistoric people. 
* * * 
It is reported from Salt Lake City, Utah, that negligence 
on the part of the various cemetery companies of the city to 
comply with the law passed by the last Legislature, requiring 
the filing of ownership plats with the County Recorder, will 
probably result in legal proceedings. County Attorney Chris- 
tensen sent out notices asking that the plats be filed without 
delay, but so far only one, the Jewish Cemetery, has responded. 
In addition to the original filing, the new law requires the 
filing of an amended plat twice a year, showing such trans- 
fers and new titles as have been consummated during the 
previous six months. 
* * * 
An?mal reports or extracts frotn thenty historical sketckcsy 
descriptive circularsy photogi'aphs of improvements or dis- 
tinctive features are requested for use in this departm€?it. 
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, North Wales, Pa., has brought 
suit against Chas. E. Bean, to compel him to remove a dog 
which he recently buried in the cemetery belonging to that 
church. 
^ * 
At the annual meeting of the Rhinebeck Cemetery Asso- 
ciation, Rhinebeck, N. Y., reports of the officers showed the 
receipts to be $2,366 for the year. The trust fund has in- 
creased $750 during the year, and now amounts to $9,525. 
The total invested fund is over $14,000. Wm. Thompson is 
president and superintendent of the cemetery. 
V * * 
At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Pueblo 
Cemetery Association, Pueblo, Colo., it was decided to change 
the name of the cemeter}' from Riverview to Roselawn. The 
former name was never suitable as no view can be had of 
the river from any part of the grounds. Roselawn, however. 
The congregation of St. Vincent’s Church, Plymouth, near 
Wilkesbarre, Pa., has brought an equity suit against the 
Kingston Coal Company to restrain the corporation from 
mining coal under the cemetery, claiming that, if it does, 
the surface will cave in, and the bodies will be carried down 
into the mine workings. The case was called in court and 
the coal company set up a unique defense. It claimed that 
the church congregation did not own either the surface or 
the coal under the plot of ground used for cemetery purposes. 
It was furthermore claimed that the plaintiff is not a corpo- 
rate entity, with right to sue. 
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An undertakers’ trade journal says that undertakers in 
various parts of Westchester County, N. Y., have com- 
plained that despite the fact that about $5,000,000 of cemetery 
property in the county is exempt from taxation on the ground 
that free graves shall be furnished for the pauper dead, yet 
the different Potter’s fields are practically filled, and the un- 
dertakers say they have to pay from $15 to $18 for each 
grave, while the county allows them only $20 for the entire 
expense of a pauper burial. The board of supervisors took 
up the question recently and it is said that if they find that 
pauper dead are being shut out from burial, the smaller and 
private cemeteries will be compelled to pay taxes. t 
^ ^ ^ 
Disinterment, for shipment back to China, of the remains ^ 
of about 100 Chinamen who were buried in Rosehill Ceme- -i 
tery, Chicago, in the years between 1892 and 1900, was made 
by the Soon On Tong, or Chinese Burial Society of Chicago 
in November. This wholesale exhumation takes place in 
