PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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such city, township ol- borough for the burial 
of the dead and to purchase from the holders of 
lots in their own grounds the said lots whether 
interments have been made in them or not and 
provide for the reinterment of bodies that may be 
buried in any of the lots so purchased by them. 
And the board of managers, trustees ~or other 
oihcials in whom is vested the management of the 
affairs of such incorporated or unincorporated 
■church cemetery or burial association are also here- 
by authorized and empowered to contract and agree 
with the owners of the lots in which interments 
have been made to remove from said lots the dead 
to such new locations upon such terms as may or 
can be mutually agreed upon. And in case any 
bodies have been interred in lots is such cemetery 
or cemeteries, and the owners of the lots in which 
the interments are made cannot after diligent search 
by the board of managers, trustees or other offi- 
cials be found, such bodies may be removed by the 
aforesaid managing officials to lots in such grounds 
so purchased by said incorporated or unincorporated 
church cemetery or burial association, or to lots 
or sections in other properly regulated burial 
ground or cemetery in the vicinity of such city, 
township or borough, and interred therein, the ex- 
pense of such removal and interment, enclosures 
and improvements to be borne by such incorporated 
or unincorporated church cemetery or burial asso- 
ciation, and upon such removal being made the 
ground from which the bodies are so removed, shall 
be deemed and considered vacated for burial pur- 
poses and revert to and become the property of 
such incorporated or unincorporated church ceme- 
tery or burial association making such removal and 
be taken and considered the same as if said lot 
or lots had never been sold by the said church 
cemetery or burial association for the purpose of 
interment or any other purpose whatsoever And 
in case the holders of lots in which no interments 
have been made cannot after diligent search by the 
managing officials above mentioned bbe found, then 
the managing officials may in their discretion as- 
sign to said owner parts of the ground so pur- 
chased, equal in value to the said lots, the owners 
of which cannot be found or assign to such owners 
lots of equal value into other properly regulated 
burial ground or cemetery in the vicinity of such city, 
township or borough or the said managing officials 
may set apart or hold in trust for the owners of 
said lots who cannot be found a sum of not less 
than the original price paid for said lots by the 
owner and shall hold and securely keep the said 
sum so set apart for the benefits of the said own- 
ers and pay to them whenever they may call for 
the same, and thereupon whenever lots of equal 
value shall have been set apart on the books of 
said incorporated or unincorporated church cemetery 
or burial association as having been assigned to 
said owners who cannot be found in the new and 
more suitable ground so purchased or in a properly 
regulated burial ground or cemetery in the vicinity 
of such city, township or borough or as soon as the 
said managing officials shall set apart a sum equal 
to the price paid for said ’lots the owners of which 
cannot be found for the benefit of said owners, then 
and in that case the lots heretofore held by said 
owners shall revert to and become the property of 
said incorporated or unincorporated church ceme- 
tery or burial association in whose ground the same 
are located as if the same had never been sold 
for the purpose of interment or any other purpose 
whatsoever and such incorporated or unincorporated 
church cemetery or burial association is hereby 
further authorized and empowered to sell and con- 
vey in fee simple and unrestricted as to use all 
such portions of their land not used or conveyed 
by them for burial purposes or which shall have 
been reconveyed to them or which have reverted 
to or become acquired by them as hereinbefore 
authorized and from which all bodies shall have 
been removed and to make, grant and deliver in 
the customary form a deed or deeds for the same 
to the purchaser or purchasers free, clear and 
discharged of any use, trust or limitation whatso- 
ever. 
Sec. 2. Whenever any incorporated or unincor- 
porated church cemetery or burial association owns 
grounds wholly or in part in any city, township or 
borough in this Commonwealth and by reason of 
the growth thereof as well as for sanitary pur- 
poses it is deemed necessary or desirable in the 
opinion of the said church cemetery or burial as- 
sociation to change the location thereof, or if by 
reason of the opening of streets, roads or public 
passages around or through the same a portion of 
the property has become angular and partly sur- 
rounded by improvements and by reason of the 
proximity of adjacent property the interment of 
the dead may in the interest of public health be 
prohibited in the ground belonging to any such 
church cemetery or burial association aforesaid or 
from other causes any burial ground belonging to 
or in charge of any such incorporated or unincor- 
porated church cemetery or burial association has 
ceased to be used for interments and has become so 
neglected as to become a public nuisance or that 
the remains of bodies interred in any such neg- 
lected or disused cemetery in any city, township or 
borough interfere with and hinder the improve- 
ments, extension and general progressive interest 
of any city, township or borough then and in such 
case the courts of quarter sessions of the several 
counties of this Commonwealth upon petition of the 
managers, trustees or other officials in whom is 
vested the management of the affairs of such in- 
corporated or unincorporated church cemetery or 
burial association setting forth that by reason 
of the growth of said city, township or borough it 
has been necessary to change the location thereof 
or that by reason of the proximity of adjacent 
property the interment of the dead in said cem- 
etery or burial ground in the interest of public 
health has been prohibited or from other causes 
said burial ground has ceased to be used for in- 
terments and has become so neglected as to be- 
come a public nuisance or that the remains of 
bodies therein interfere with and hinder the im- 
provements, extensions and general progressive in- 
terests of any such city, township or borough and 
the public good and after three weeks’ advertise- 
ment of heaiing in open court for the purpose, 
the said court is hereby vested and empowered with 
full power and authority after a full hearing of 
the parties therein proofs and allegations to au- 
thorize and direct the removal of the remains of all 
the dead from such cemetery or burial ground to 
such other suitable ground as said managers, trus- 
tees or officers may have procured in the vicinity 
of such city, towmship or borough for the reinter- 
ment of the bodies or to such lots or sections in 
a properly regulated burial ground or cemetery in 
the vienity of such city, borough or township and 
to order and decree that the ground of such ceme- 
tery be forever vacated for burial purposes. 
Sec. 3. After the removal of the bodies as pro- 
vided for in section two, the said court of quar- 
ter sessions may upon petition of the said man- 
agers, trustees or other officers referred to in said 
section and upon being satisfied that the order of 
the court has been duly complied with authorize 
and empower the said managers, trustees or other 
officers in w r hom is vested the management of such 
incorporated or unincorporated church cemetery or 
burial association to sell said burial ground at u 
public or private sale either as a whole or divided 
into lots as they may deem most advisable and 
most likely to realize the most money and to make, 
execute and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers 
a deed or deeds therefore which deed or deeds shall 
vest in said purchaser or purchasers a perfect and 
indefeasible fee simple title, free and clear from 
all claims or interest of said incorporated or unin- 
corporated church cemetery or burial association 
and of all owner or owners of lot or lots in said 
burial ground, the proceeds thereof being substitu- 
ted in all respects for said ground. 
Sec. 4. The proceeds of such sale or sales shall 
be applied and distributed by said managers, trus- 
tees or other officers in whom is vested the man- 
agement of such incorporated or unincorporated 
church cemetery or burial association as follows: (1) 
to the payment of the expenses of removing said 
bodies and the monuments or tombstones erected 
or maintained in such cemetery, including the pur- 
chase of new grounds or new lots in a properly 
regulated bural ground or cemetery in the 
vicinity of such city, township or borough (2), 
to the compensation or payment to lot owners in 
said burial ground in which no bodies have been 
interred and (3), the residue after defraying all 
necessary expenses incident to the removal of said 
bodies and interring the same in a careful manner, 
to be held in trust for lot owmers w T ho cannot be 
found after diligent search and for such other uses, 
objects and purposes as said incorporated or unin- 
corporated church cemetery or burial association 
may order direct and appoint. 
Sec. 5. That all acts or parts of acts inconsist- 
ent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. 
REMODELING A DANGEROUS DRIVE CURVE 
An interesting work in the remodeling 
of a curved drive to produce a roadway 
that was less dangerous to travel was re- 
cently accomplished in Forest Park, St. 
creased safety and more durable construc- 
tion of roads, in addition to an increase 
in beauty through the change in align- 
ment. The old and the new alignment 
REMODELING OF WELLS DRIVE, FOREST PARK, ST. LOUIS, TO ELIM- 
INATE '‘DEAD MAN'S CURVE." 
Louis. The dangerous “S”‘ curve on Wells 
drive had gained the name of “Dead 
Man’s Curve,” and the way it was re- 
modeled is a good example of securing in- 
of this curve are illustrated in the ac- 
companying diagram from the last annual 
report of the Park Commissioner of St. 
Louis. 
