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each year a report which shall be the official organ 
of the Academy. This report shall contain a state- 
ment of the status of the Academy, proceedings of 
each annual meeting, and such technical or profes- 
sional articles as may be of value to the Fellows. 
The Secretary-Treas'urer of the Academy shall act 
as the Secretary to the Board of Directors. 
Article 5. — Nominations and Elections. 
Section 1. At each annual meeting the Academy 
shall elect a President, two (2) Vice-Presidents, 
a Secretary-Treasurer. Officers shall assume their 
duties upon receiving notice of their election, and 
shall hold office until their successors have been 
duly elected. The President shall appoint three (3) 
Fellows to serve with the officers as the Board of 
Directors. 
Sec. 2. The officers and members of the Academy 
shall be elected by ballot. The officers shall be 
elected annually andi any officer shall be elegible 
for re-election. Candidates for offices shall be 
elected upon receiving a plurality of all votes cast. 
Candidates for membership shall be declared elected 
SELLING CEM 
When a lot is sold on partial payment 
plan we require one-third of the purchase 
price cash ; balance is payable within 90 
days, without interest. If more time is 
desired, we charge 6 per cent of any unpaid 
amount after the three months., Usually 
such accounts are paid within one year. 
Lately we have encouraged cash pay- 
ments for lots by allowing a small dis- 
count, 'which is taken advantage of by 
many and has operated to diminish delin- 
quents. 
No stone work can be erected on any lot 
until full payment for same has been made 
and certificate of ownership issued. 
When parties fail to complete payments 
for lots after repeated demands, they are 
notified that, unless the unpaid balance is 
forthcoming by a certain date, the unpaid 
for portion of the lot will be resold. The 
result of this notice very often is followed 
by payment. 
When this is done we permit no monu- 
ment on such a lot, neither by the original 
purchaser nor by the purchaser of the un- 
paid portion. 
In no case have we removed, nor shall 
we remove, the dead, because we do not 
consider it wise to open the way for un- 
pleasant litigation. 
Frank Eurich, 
Supt., Woodlawn Cemetery. 
Detroit, Mich. 
We sell a large number of lots that are 
purchased on the contract plan. The fol- 
lowing blank contract is used : 
Kansas City, Mo., 191.. 
Received of the buyer 
Dollars, 
in part payment for 
of Forest Hill Cemetery, in Jackson County, Mis- 
souri, as the same is marked and designated upon 
the recorded plat thereof, the total amount to be 
paid in purchase of said lot being 
Dollars 
and the balance of the purchase money to be paid 
as follows: 
On $ On $.. 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
provided not more than two (2) negative votes are 
cast. 
Sec. 3 Application for Fellowship must be made 
in writing and signed by a Fellow of the Academy 
to whom the applicant is personality known. The 
Secretary shall present the applications to the Presi- 
dent who in turn will refer them to his Investigat- 
ing Committee and only those reported favorably by 
this Commitee shall be placed before the Academy 
for vote. 
Sec. 4. A nominee for Honorary membership shall 
be proposed by the Board of Directors who shall 
state his qualifications in writing. He shall be 
elected by the Academy. 
Article 6. — Dues. 
Section 1. An applicant for Fellowship shall pay 
an initiation fee of $5.00 with application. This 
shall be returned if applicant is not elected. 
Sec. 2. The annual dues of Fellows shall be $3.00. 
Sec. 3. Honorary Members shall not be subject to 
initiation fees or annual dues. 
Sec. 4. Any member whose dues remain unpaid 
ETERY LOTS 
Symposium of Methods and Forms Used by 
Many Cemeteries in Lot Sales and Collections. 
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With interest at the rate of six per cent, per 
an- 
mini, 
It 
is expressly 
understood that 
the buyer i 
s to 
use 
said tract for 
burial purposes 
only, and subject 
to all the rules, 
regulations and 
restrictions, 
now 
or hereafter provided by the Troost Avenue Ceme- 
tery 
Company. 
In 
the event of 
the failure of 
the buyer to 
pay 
any 
of the notes 
herein mentioned, this contract 
shall become void at the option of the Troost Avenue 
Cemetery Company, and it shall have the right to 
inter upon said tract, and to disinter any body or 
bodies interred thereon, and to transfer the same 
into any other grave or graves in Forest Hill Ceme- 
tery to be selected by the seller, and to deduct from 
the price paid a fund sufficient to fully pay for said 
grave or graves for the expenses of disinterring and 
transferring, and the expense of restoring to proper 
condition for re-sale said lot 
Block and the surplus, if any, 
shall be returned to the buyer. 
TROOST AVENUE' CEMETERY CO. 
By 
This, when properly filled out and signed 
by purchaser, gives us the privilege of 
making transfer of remains to single grave 
or any other disposition the purchaser sees 
fit. Our state has a law against removing 
bodies without consent of relatives. When 
the buyer gets behind in payments and 
shows no disposition to meet his notes, 
very little can be done but take the lot 
back. We try in every way to help them 
meet payments. We have made very few 
removals under these conditions ; would 
rather take unused part of lot, giving them 
deed to used portion. 
We find best time to get money is when 
the grief is fresh. With some people they 
will promise things that are hard to ful- 
fill and as time goes on they neglect those 
promises, so we have to cancel a contract 
once in a while. We find it pretty hard to 
force them into paying. The only incon- 
venience to us in doing this is making 
fractional lots in districts where only lots 
are sold. Raymond Dunn, 
Supt., Forest Hill Cemetery. 
(Troost Avenue Cemetery Co.) 
Kansas City, Mo. 
for six (6) months shall be declared in arrears. 
The Board of Directors may then remove him if 
he fails to pay his delinquent dues within thirty 
(30) days after notification by- the Treasurer. 
Sec. 5. Resignation must be submitted in writ- 
ing and may be accepted by the Board of Directors 
provided! all indebtedness to the Academy has been 
discharged. 
Sec. 6. The Academy shall issue to Fellows on 
entrance to membership a certificate of member- 
ship and an emblem which shall be the property 
of the Academy; the Fellow making a deposit on 
receipt of same. In case of expulsion or resig- 
nation this shall be returned to the Academy and 
deposit refunded. 
Article 7. — Amendments. 
Section 1. Proposed amendments to this Consti- 
tution must be reduced to writing and signed by 
two (2) members of the Academy and presented 
at a regular meeting. The proposed amendment 
shall be adopted provided a majority of affirmative 
votes are cast. 
ON C R E D I T— V 
We sell lots on credit in the following 
manner : At the time of purchase we in- 
sist on one-half of the price of the lot be- 
ing paid for before allowing any burial to 
be made ; also, we insist that at the time of 
the burial all interment fees be paid be- 
fore starting the opening of the grave. 
We then take a note for the balance with 
interest at 6 per cent, the legal rate of our 
state. The note reads : 
Toledo, Ohio, 191 .... 
$ 
after date promise to pay to 
the order of The Woodlawn Cemetery Association, 
Dollars 
Value received, with interest at six per cent, per 
annum until paid. 
This Note is given as part payment on Dot No. 
Sec. No , and if this note 
is not paid promptly as it matures, the Association 
may take possession of and sell said lot and re- 
move the remains of any body buried therein to any 
other part of the Cemetery, retaining any payments 
theretofore made as rent for the use of said lot. 
As regards delinquent purchasers, will 
say that we have several lots still unpaid, 
some dating as far back as twenty years. 
We have never adopted any arbitrary 
measures such as suing the note or re- 
moving the remains interred thereon. 
However, in case of a purchase balance 
still unpaid, or an indebtedness of some 
sort or other due against the lot, and ap- 
plication being made to make a second 
burial, we should then insist that no inter- 
ment take place on the lot until each and 
every indebtedness is fully paid. We have 
never been fully satisfied as to the posi- 
tion the courts would take in our state as 
to the situation brought about by our using 
arbitrary means to obtain full payment of 
a lot. We have also refrained from using 
these harsh methods, since we have not 
desired to create a bitter feeling against 
the cemetery and because we are not 
anxious to submit ourselves to damage suits. 
Jno. Perrin, 
Supt., Woodlawn Cemetery. 
Toledo, O. 
