§ 6. The person having charge of every private burial ground, vault and cemetery in the City of Troy shall deliver the certificates mentioned in the preceding section of this ordinance, with a written statement of the time and place of burial of the deceased person mentioned in such certificate, to the superintendent of the public burial ground in said city, monthly, on the third Wednesday of every month.

§ 7. The superintendent of the public burial ground in said city shall register in a suitable book, to be provided by him at the expense of the city, all facts contained in the certificates mentioned in the preceding section of this ordinance, and also the time and place of burial of the deceased persons mentioned in said certificates, and shall cause to be published in one or more of the newspapers published in said city, on the Saturday succeeding the third Wednesday of every month, an abstract and statement of the facts so registered during the preceding month; and at the end of each year shall also prepare and cause to be published, in one or more of said newspapers, a general abstract and statement of such facts so registered during the preceding year.

§ 8. The superintendent of the public grounds shall be entitled to the sum of thirty-seven and a half cents for every person whose death shall be registered by him as above provided, in lieu of any fees now allowed him for such service.

9. No person shall cut or trim any grass or shrubbery in either of the public grounds in the City of Troy, except by direction of the superintendent or without authority in writing from the owner of the lot in which such grass or shrubbery shall be cut or trimmed, and such authority shall be exhibited to such superintendent whenever requested by him.

§ 10. No person shall enter either of the public burial grounds in said city before sunrise or after sunset, without the permission of the said superintendent.

§ II. Any person who shall violate any of the proS visions contained in this ordinance shall, for each offense, forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than two dollars or more than ten dollars, in the discretion of the magistrate or court before whom such person shall be convicted.

§ 12. The fifth, sixth and seventh sections of the ordinance entitled "A law relative to the public burial grounds of the City of Troy, and providing for a regular return of bills of mortality in said city," passed February 8, 1838, are hereby repealed.

§ 13. This ordinance shall take effect on the first day of July next.

A LAW RELATIVE TO THAT PART OF MOUNT IDA CEMETERY COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE OLD CATHOLIC BURIAL GROUND.

Passed October 5, 1854.

The Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Troy, in Common Council convened, do ordain as follows:

SECTION I. If any person shall willfully, maliciously or wantonly break down, damage, deface or injure any part of the fence surrounding the burial ground on Mount Ida, known as the old Catholic burial ground, or shall break, remove or injure any lock or locks on the gate or gates of the same, he or they shall, for each and every such offense, forfeit and pay a penalty of ten ' dollars.

§ 2. No graves shall be dug or opened in said ground except by or under the direction of the superintendent of the public burial grounds of the City of Troy; and none others than those resident at the time of their decease in the City of Troy shall be interred in said grounds

without the consent of the committee on public burial grounds, or the chairman of said committee, first obtained in writing. For each and every such offense, he or they so offending shall forfeit and pay a penalty of ten dollars.

A LAW IN RELATION TO THE GROUND RECENTLY PURCHASED BY THE CITY OF TROY FOR BURIAL PUR

POSES.

Passed February 1, 1855.

The Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Troy, in Common Council convened, do ordain as follows:

SECTION 1. These grounds shall be called the "new Mount Ida cemetery."

§ 2. Any citizen of Troy, being a householder and the head of a family, shall be entitled to one lot of ground in said cemetery, containing two hundred and sixty square feet, to be used as a family burying ground for such person; and his or her family, upon paying to the chamberlain of the city for the use of the city the sum of ten dollars therefor, and such payment being made, shall receive from the mayor, recorder, aldermen and commonalty a quit claim deed thereof, conditioned that the same shall be used only for burial purposes, and subject to all the laws, rules and regulations of the common council in re lation to said cemetery.

$ 3. Every citizen, being a householder and the head of a family, shall be entitled to one lot in said cemetery of the size mentioned in the last preceding section; provided the same is to be immediately used for the burial of some member of his or her family, already deceased.

§ 4. Non-residents wishing to bury their dead in this cemetery shall be permitted to do so upon paying to the superintendent thereof, for the use of the city, the sum of one dollar for each adult's grave and fifty cents for each child's grave.

§ 5. No person shall be entitled to but one lot in this cemetery, either by gift or purchase, while the lot already occupied by such person, or any portion thereof, is available for burial purposes and unoccupied. The size of each lot shall be two hundred and sixty square feet (260).

§ 6. All persons occupying lots in this cemetery shall enclose the same within three months after such occupancy shall have commenced, under the direction of the superintendent and burying ground committee. Such enclosure shall be either a private hedge, or a fence consisting of a cap and rail, with chestnut posts four inches by four in size, an iron fence, or one partly of stone and partly of iron. A non-compliance with the requirements of this section of this ordinance shall forfeit the right of the person non-complying, unless it shall be made to appear to the burying ground committee that such person is really unable to incur the expense thereof.

§ 7. The places for commencing interments in the ground set apart for single graves in this cemetery shall be immediately determined upon by the burial ground committee, and, when so determined, adults shall be interred by the side of adults, and children by the side of children; also, the said committee shall determine upon the places for locating and giving lots, and when so determined each lot selected and taken up shall be adjoining some lot already occupied or selected; and all graves and lots shall be located under the direction of the burial ground committee and superintendent. (As amended April 5, 1855.)

§ 8. Mount Ida cemetery and the new Mount Ida Cemetery shall be under the direction of the same super

intendent. All ordinances of this city relative to public burial grounds therein not inconsistent with this ordinance are hereby extended and made applicable to the new mount Ida cemetery.

A LAW IN RELATION TO MOUNT IDA CEMETERY, FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THOSE WHO WISH TO AVAIL THEMSELVES OF ITS BENEFITS.

Passed May 3, 1855.

The Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Troy, in Common Council convened, do ordain as follows:

SECTION 1. Any person or persons holding lots in Mount Ida cemetery wishing to secure titles of the same, may do so by paying to the chamberlain of the City of Troy, for the use of said city, a sum not exceeding three dollars, for which sum said person or persons shall receive from the mayor, recorder, aldermen and commonalty of said city a quit-claim deed, conditioned that the same shall be used only for burial purposes, and subject to all the laws, rules and regulations of the common council in relation to said cemetery not inconsistent with this act.

A LAW TO AMEND A LAW RELATIVE TO THE PUBLIC BURIAL GROUNDS OF THE CITY OF TROY, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE MORE CORRECT RETURNS OF THE BILL OF MORTALITY IN SAID CITY.

Passed February 21, 1861.

The Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Troy, in Common Council convened, do ordain as follows:

SECTION I. No undertaker, superintendent of any public burying ground, nor any other person, shall re