PARK AND CE METER Y. 
393 
....... after deducting the cost of removals, etc., 
and to execute a conveyance of said lot last men- 
tioned to said second part...., which acts shall 
have the effect of completely terminating this con- 
tract, it being understood that said second part... . 
shall have twenty days after said default to make 
own selection of said lot as aforesaid. 
In witness whereof the said parties hereunto affix 
their hands and seals the day and year first above 
written. 
■Witnesses: 
LAKEWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION. 
President. 
Secretary. 
(SEAL) 
Lakewood Cemetery Association. 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
* * * 
Following is a new form for sale of lots 
on credit used by Forest Hill Cemetery, 
Scranton, Pa. : 
Agreement, made the 
day of , 191 
between the Forest Hill Cemetery Association, of 
Scranton, and 
of 
Said Association agrees to sell and convey, by 
Warrantee Deed in fee simple, unto said 
•the following described lot in said Cemetery, viz. : 
Lot No Block No. . , 
Division as designated on plot of said 
Cemetery, subject, however, to the By-Laws, Rules 
and Regulations of said Association. 
Said lot contains 
tsefuare feet; and for said lot said 
agrees to pay to the said Association the sum of 
Dollars, as follows: 
One-half of the purchase price on the execution 
of this agreement, at which tinne possession to 
one-half of said lot divided longitudinally shall be 
given, and the balance within one and one-lialf years 
from the date hereof with interest. Until said bal- 
ance with interest is fully paid the said 
heirs or assigns shall have no 
light of control over, possession to, or interment in 
the remaining half of said lot and upon 
failure to pay all of said balance within the period 
aforesaid all of rights thereto shall be ab- 
solutely forfeited and said one-half lot shall revert 
to the Forest Hill Cemetery Association, without 
further process or notice, free, clear and fully dis- 
charged from all claims arising out of this agree- 
nnent. 
Signed and sealed in the presence of 
FOREST HILL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF 
By 
SCRANTON. 
(SEAL) 
(SEAL) 
Tlie following extract from the rules of 
F'orest Hill also bear on the sale of lots on 
credit : 
All lots niiust be kept clean of leaves and rub- 
bish and the grass out and trimmed as required by 
the superintendent. The trustees shall enter upon 
sintl care for all lots not otherwise cared for, and 
charge to the proprietor of such lot the uniform 
n>rice fixed by the Association for the annual care of 
lots. No burial being permitted in any lot until 
all charges for the care of the same shall be paid. 
Should the proprietor of a lot become indebted to 
the Association to an amount equal to the amount 
T>aid to the Association for such lot, less the cost of 
removing and re-interring in single grave plots all 
jemains therein, and restoring the lot to the con- 
dition it was in before acquired by such proprietor, 
then the title to such lot shall revert to the Asso- 
ciation, and the trustees may reinter all remains 
and dispose of such lot as they deem for the best 
interests of the Association. Provided, the trustees 
•shall give the proprietor notice of their intention 
to take possession of the lot unless the indebtedness 
•shall be paid within six months from date of such 
'notice, which notice shall be mailed to the latest 
P. O. address furnished the Association by the pro- 
prietor. 
In Philadelphia there seem to be a num- 
ber of cemeteries that have the same plan 
as ours, with some possible modifications. 
Ever since we organized, over twenty-three 
years ago, we have been selling burial lots 
on the twenty monthly payment plan, or 5 
per cent of the price of lot payable each 
month. The fact that we have continued 
this plan all these years naturally tells its 
own story, namely, that we are entirely sat- 
isfied with it and have no thought of 
changing it. In a city like Philadelphia, 
where there is so much competition, if a 
cemetery did not have some salesmen sell- 
ing lots it would almost die and it would 
be utterly impossible to continue improv- 
ing the grounds unless there was a con- 
tinual sale of lots. It is no exaggeration 
to say that probably 80 to 90 per cent of 
our lots are sold that way, and it might 
be just as safe to say that 50 per cent 
would never have been sold except on 
some such plan. Where cash is paid with- 
in thirty days we allow a discount of 6 
per cent. We employ a regular collector 
and have the entire city divided into dis- 
tricts, making the calls not just thirty 
days from time of sale, but on a certain 
day of each month, say, the first Monday, 
second Wednesday, etc., and in this way 
he is calling on some purchaser almost 
every weekday in the month. Every third 
month there comes the thirteenth week 
in which no calls are made, and he is em- 
ployed along other lines. We frequently 
have lot holders discontinue their pay- 
ments. By the terms of the agreement 
which every purchaser signs, the lots are 
foreclosed and the amount paid is for- 
feited. This agreement reads as follows: 
This Agreement made this 
day of , A. D., 19 
Witnesseth that the Hillside Cemetery Company 
agrees to sell and 
agrees to purchase the right 
of sepulture in Lot No in Section 
of said Cemetery Company’s 
ground for the price or sum of Dollars, 
upon the following terms, to wit: 
That if the whole purchase money is paid in cash 
per cent discount shall be allowed, 
or otherwise the sum shall be paid at the rate of 
twenty (20) equal monthly instalments of 
dollars each; the first instalment (the receipt of 
which is hereby acknowledged) at the execution 
hereof, and the next and subsequent instalments 
payable at the office of said Company, or to its 
authorized collector until paid in full. 
It is understood and agreed that the right of 
sepulture in said lot is sold upon the terms and 
conditions herein above expressed, and subject to 
any and all By-laws now in force, or that may be 
hereafter established by said Hillside Cemetery Com- 
pany from time to time, for its government and the 
protection of its lot owners; it being distinctly un- 
derstood that this agreement shall not. nor shall any 
Deed made in pursuance thereof, give to or vest in 
the purchaser, any right to inter in said lot any- 
thing other than the remains of white human beings, 
nor shall any interment be made except upon a 
permit issued by the Cemetery Company in accord- 
ance with its rules and; regulations. 
Provided further, that where all instalments due 
to date have been paid, the insurance feature, and 
privilege of immediate interment, shall be in effect. 
The purchaser further agrees, that if three of the 
said instalments shall be in arrears and remain so 
for a period of six months, all claims to the said 
lot and rights therein shall be deemed released to 
said Cemetery Company, which shall have the option 
to collect the balance due or to retain, as liquidated 
damages, all sums theretofore paid, and to remove 
any bodies that may have been buried in said lot, 
reinter them in some other portion of said Cemetery, 
and to resell the above described lot. 
Witness 
Name of Purchaser 
Occupation 
We permit a burial in lot immediately, 
but will insist upon a first payment of 20 
per cent. Where such burial is made it 
gives us a greater hold on the purchaser, 
because we reserve the right to remove 
said body to another section reserved for 
single graves if the monthly payments are 
not made. We rarely make removals, 
however, because the owner generally 
makes every effort to pay rather than have 
the bodies removed. Where there is a 
burial, even where there is no burial, but 
a disposition to pay, we lengthen the time 
of payment beyond the twenty months, hut 
after the two years expire we charge 6 
per cent interest on the balance due. We 
feel this is a good plan because it gives 
the selling agent a good argument for 
people to purchase a lot before one is 
actually needed, and on such easy terms 
they do not feel themselves buying it. In 
addition we can afford to be lenient, be- 
cause we always have the collateral (the 
lot) still in our possession, and where 
time is extended we are receiving 6 per 
cent on all such outstanding accounts. 
Hillside Cemetery. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
* * * 
We sell lots on time, as the form below 
will explain, and all purchasers are held 
strictly to the contract. No exception, ab- 
solutely. Following is our memorandum of 
agreement : 
No 
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT, 
Made this day of I , 
between the City of Rochester, by the Commission- 
ers of Mount Hope Cemetery, part of the first part, 
and 
of part of the second part: 
Witnesseth, That party of the first part, in con- 
sideration of the sum of $ paid 
and to be paid by part of the second part, does 
hereby agree to sell to part of the second part 
Lot No Sec (or) Range containing 
square feet in Mount Hope 
Cemetery, upon the following terms and conditions, 
viz.: $ to be paid at the office 
of Mount Hope Cemetery by part of the second 
part, upon the execution and delivery of this con- 
tract, and the balance to be paid in installments 
of .$ each at the same place, at 
the end of each months thereafter, until 
the entire amount shall be fully paid, when said 
second party shall be entitled to a deed in the usual 
form. 
If the said part of the second part shall fail 
to pay any one of said installments for a period of 
months after the same becomes due 
and payable, then and in that event this agreement 
shall terminate and become void, and said party 
of the first part shall have the right to retain all 
moneys previously paid by said second part to 
apply upon this contract, for the use of said Ceme- 
tery, and all rights of said second part to said 
property hereinbefore described shall cease. 
It is specially understood and agreed that no inter- 
ment shall be made upon said property hereby con- 
veyed until said sum of $ has been 
fully paid, the privilege being hereby given to said 
second part to pay in full for said, property at 
