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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ASKED AND ANSWERED 
An exchange of experience on practical matters by our readers. You 
are invited to contribute questions and answers to this department 
Forms for Perpetual Care Deeds. 
“Kindly mail us any form of a deed that 
you may have in which is embodied a per- 
petual care clause. Some of our lot own- 
ers insist on a clause of this nature being 
set out in our deeds. They feel that they 
have no assurance of future care unless it 
is so specified in the deed to their lot. 
Please advise if all well regulated ceme- 
teries embody this clause in their instru- 
ments through which they convey cemetery 
property to the individual.” — W. P., Ala. 
Following are several forms embodying 
perpetual care agreements : 
Mount Greenwood Cemetery, Chicago : 
Perpetual Care Agreement. 
In consideration of the payment in full of the 
purchase price of the within described lot, the 
Mount Greenwood Cemetery Association agrees to 
set apart as a trust fund for the perpetual care 
of said lot the sum of 
Dollars ($ ) under the following conditions: 
The said sum shall be held, together with other 
trust funds, entirely separate and apart from the 
other funds of said association. The association 
agrees to use the utmost care and discretion in 
safeguarding the funds so held in trust, in select- 
ing depositories and in making investments; and 
agrees to make good any loss or diminution in 
said funds, arising from its failure to take such 
precautions as may be reasonably expected and 
required. 
The said association further agrees that it will 
file with the County Court at least once in two 
years a statement under oath of the total amount 
of the funds in its hands as trustees under this 
and similar agreements, and a statement as to 
how such funds are invested. The said associa- 
tion also agrees to make public the names of such 
custodian or custodians as it may select from time 
to time, as depositories for the funds accruing 
to it as trustee under this agreement. 
The Mount Greenwood Cemetery Association guar- 
antees perpetual care of the above lot so long as 
it shall be used as a place of burial by the pur- 
chaser above specified, his heirs and devisees, and 
will retain as payment for such perpetual care 
the income from the fund. 
The term “Perpetual Care” shall mean the cut- 
ting of the grass upon said lot at reasonable in- 
tervals; the raking and cleaning of the lot; the 
pruning of the shrubs and trees, and such work 
as may be necessary to keep the lot in good and 
neat condition; meaning and intending to continue 
forever similar work to that now regularly done 
upon all the lots and graves in Mount Greenwood 
Cemetery along these lines. In addition to this, 
the said association hereby binds itself to keep in 
repair and maintain in good condition the en- 
closures, buildings, drives, walks and borders in 
said cemetery. 
Under this agreement, however, the said associa- 
tion does not bind itself to maintain, repair or re- 
place any gravestones or monumental structures 
erected upon the lot or the graves therein, nor to 
plant flowers or ornamental plants, nor to main- 
tain mounds upon the graves, nor to do any spe- 
cial or unusual work. 
It is agreed that in the event of the refusal 
or failure of the said Mount Greenwood Cemetery 
Association at any time to perform the work here- 
in agreed to be done in a reasonable and proper 
manner, after due notice in writing has been 
served upon it, and upon the subsequent legal find- 
ing of a court of competent jurisdiction that 
such default has occurred and continues, upon the 
suit of any party in interest, it will at once sur- 
render to such court, to be placed in the posses- 
sion of other trustees to be appointed by it, the 
trust fund remaining in its hands as above set 
forth: such fund to be administered by the new 
trustees and the income arising to be devoted to 
the purpose of perpetual care as set forth in this 
agreement, it being understood and agreed, how- 
ever, that the surrender of such fund in the above 
specified manner shall release the said association 
from all further obligations under this agreement. 
The said association further reserves to itself the 
right at its option to surrender the trust funds 
remaining in its bonds and accruing under this 
agreement, to a court of competent jurisdiction in 
Cook County, Illinois, with the request that other 
trustees be appointed by such court to carry out 
the terms of this trust, and such surrender upon 
the part of said Cemetery Association of the funds 
as aforesaid shall release said association from all 
further liability under this agreement. 
This is the perpetual care agreement 
printed upon the hack of all deeds to lots 
purchased since January 1, 1910. 
Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago: 
Know all Men by these Presents: That the 
Oak Woods Cemetery Association, by 
its President, in consideration of 
Dollars ($ ), to it paid by , 
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, does 
hereby grant, bargain, sell, and convey to the said 
heirs, the following lot of 
land in the cemetery of said association, known 
and designated as Oak Woods Cemetery, situated in 
the town of Hyde Park (Chicago), County of Cook, 
and State of Illinois, viz.: Lot No 
In Division Section Letter 
as per recorded plat of a portion of said Oak 
Woods Cemetery, recorded in the Recorder’s office 
of Cook County, aforesaid. 
Including perpetual care of said lot. The term 
“Perpetual Care” shall mean the cutting of the 
grass from May 15 to October 1 each season; 
watering the grass for the same period each sea- 
son; composting, seeding and grading the lot once 
in five (5) years, and keeping all the graves level 
with the surrounding surface. 
This Agreement, made and entered into this 
day of , A. D., 19...., be- 
tween The Oak Woods Cemetery Association, a 
corporation of the State of Illinois, located and 
doing business in the City of Chicago, County of 
Cook and State of Illinois, party of the first part. 
and of the City of 
County of in the State of. 
of the second part: 
Witnesseth: That the said. The Oak Woods 
Cemetery Association, part of the first part, for 
and in consideration of the payment to it by the 
said second party of the sum of 
Dollars ($ ) , the receipt of which is hereby 
Plans for the removal of 140,000 bodies 
from the cemeteries within the city limits 
of San Francisco, Cal., are maturing un- 
der the leadership of the directors of Lau- 
rel Hill, Masonic and Odd Fellows’ ceme- 
teries associations. At a recent meeting it 
was decided that the last of the bodies 
shall be removed by June, 1914. About 
3,000 bodies have so far been removed, 
and of those that remain in the con- 
demned cemeteries about 35,000 cannot be 
traced to those responsible for their dis- 
position. These will be moved under a 
plan to be perfected. At the above meet- 
ing a motion was made to have these bod- 
ies cremated, but that motion was lost. 
After considerable discussion it was de- 
acknowledgetf, does hereby, for itself and its suc- 
cessors and assigns, covenant and agree to and 
with the said party of the second part 
heirs and assigns, to give and perform, or cause 
to be given or performed, anually, so long as the 
Oak Woods Cemetery shall exist, the care, work 
and improvements following, in or on Lot No 
in Division , Section Letter in 
Oak Woods Cemetery, standing on the records of 
the Association at this time in the name of 
to-wit: 
In Witness Whereof, The Oak Woods Cemetery 
Association has caused these presents to be signed, 
in duplicate, by , its President, 
and attested by , its Secre- 
tary, and its corporate seal to be hereto affixed, 
and the said ha.... hereto set 
his hand and seal.., the day and year first 
above written. 
THE OAK WOODS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION. 
Secretary. 
President. 
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago : 
Form of Bequest of Money for the Care of Lots. 
I give and bequeath to the Trustees of the 
Graceland Cemetery Improvement Fund, a corpo- 
ration created by and existing under the laws of 
the State of Illinois dollars, 
in trust to invest aud reinvest in the same, and 
apply the net income thereof from time to time 
as to said corporation shall seem expedient to the 
improvement and embellishment of Lot 
in Section in Graceland Cemetery, 
or for the repairing, preservation, renewal or orna- 
mentation of any erection thereon. 
Make checks payable to the Trustees of the 
Graceland Cemetery Improvement Fund, or order. 
Cribbing Device for Graves. 
Editor Asked and Answered Dept. : “I 
was told some time ago about a device for 
preventing the caving in of graves, but 
can’t recall the manufacturers, but thought 
you could inform me. Would thank you to 
let me know.” 
Mount Zion Cemetery Co. 
Darby, Pa. 
[Is some reader able to tell us whether 
the United States Portable Cribbing Co., 
of Pittston, Pa., who formerly adver- 
tised a portable cribbing construction 
for this purpose, is still selling it? — 
Ed.] 
cided that the division of proceeds from 
the final sale of the properties should be 
on the basis of the number of square feet 
of ground owned by each person rather 
than on the amount of money paid for 
each plot, as originally proposed. The to- 
tal value of the properties has been esti- 
mated at from seventeen to twenty-five 
millions. 
The North Park Improvement Club, of 
Fresno, Cal., has been discussing the re- 
moval of the Chinese cemetery to a loca- 
tion farther from town. 
The appointment of a receiver has been 
asked for the Highlands Cemetery Asso- 
ciation of Gary, Ind. The cemetery has 
an office in Indianapolis. 
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