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ing, and prosecuting and defending suits at law and in equity; and, where suits shall be brought against said incorporation, mesne process against it may be served by leaving an attested copy thereof with one of the trustees, at least ten days before the return day thereof.

720. Such association may have power to prescribe the terms on which members may be admitted, the number of its trustees and other officers (subject to the limitations set forth in this subdivision), and the time and manner of their election and appointment, and the time and place of meeting for the trustees and for the association, and to pass all such other by-laws as may be necessary for the good government of such association, not inconsistent with this or any other statute of the state, nor in violation of the constitution.

721. Such association shall be authorized to purchase or take, by gift or devise, and hold lands exempt from execution and from any appropriation to public purchasers, for the sole purpose of a cemetery, not exceeding three hundred and twenty (320) acres, which shall be exempt from taxation if used exclusively for burial purposes, and in nowise with a view to profit. After paying for such land, all the future receipts and income of such association, whether from the sale of lots, from donations, or otherwise, shall be applied exclusively to buying out, protecting, preserving, and embellishing the cemetery and the avenues leading thereto, and to the erection of such building or buildings, vault or vaults, as may be necessary for the cemetery purposes, and to paying the necessary expenses of the association. No debts shall be contracted in the anticipation of future receipts, except for originally purchasing, laying out, inclosing, and embellishing the grounds and avenues, and erecting buildings and vaults, for which a debt or debts may be contracted, not exceeding thirty-five thousand ($35,000) dollars in the whole, to be paid out of future receipts; and such association shall have power to adopt such rules and regulations as they deem expedient for disposing of and conveying burial lots.

Amended 1885, p. 181.

722. Burial lots sold by such association shall be for the sole purpose of interments, and shall be subject to the rules prescribed by the association, and shall be exempt from taxation, execution, attachment, or any other claim, lien, or process whatever, if used exclusively for burial purposes, and in nowise with a view to profit.

723. Such association shall cause a plat of their grounds, and of the lots by them laid out, to be made and recorded, such lots to be numbered by regular consecutive numbers, and shall have power to inclose, improve, and adorn the grounds and avenues, and erect buildings for the use of the association; and to prescribe rules for the enclosing and adorning lots, and for erecting monuments in the cemetery; and to prohibit any use, division, improvement, or adornment of a lot which they may deem improper, and an annual exhibit shall be made of the affairs of the association.

724. Any person who shall willfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or remove any tomb, monument, or gravestone, or other structure placed in any cemetery, or any fence, railing, or other work for the protection or ornament of a cemetery, or tomb, monument, or gravestone, or other structure aforesaid, or of any cemetery lot within a cemetery, or shall willfully destroy, cut, break, or injure any tree, shrub, or plant, within the limits of a cemetery, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than one day nor more than thirty days, according to the nature and aggravation of the

offense; and such offender shall also be liable, in an action of trespass in the name of the association, to pay all such damages as have been occasioned by his unlawful act or acts, which money, when recovered, shall be applied to the reparation and restoration of the property destroyed or injured as above; and in all prosecutions and suits under this chapter members of said association shall be competent witnesses.

725. Lands appropriated and set apart as burial grounds, either for public or private use, and so recorded in the county clerk's office of the county where such lands are situated, shall not be subject to sale on execution on any judgment to be hereafter recovered, to taxation, to dower, nor to compulsory partition.

CHAPTER 10.-COUNTIES.

An act defining the boundaries in certain counties. In force March 3, 1873. G. Ś., 212. (Sections are given as in original act unless otherwise indicated.)

726. That the counties hereinafter named shall be bounded by boundary lines as set forth in this act.

727. The county of Adams is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of township five north, of range twelve west; thence east to the southeast corner of township five north, of range nine west; thence north to the northeast corner of township eight north, of range nine west; thence west to the northwest corner of township eight north, of range twelve west; thence south to the place of beginning.

728. The county of Antelope is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of township twenty-three north, of range eight west: thence east to the southeast corner of township twenty-three north, of range five west; thence north to the northeast corner of township twenty-eight north, of range five west; thence west to the northwest corner of township twenty-eight north, of range eight west; thence south to the place of beginning.

729. [Arthur.]—That all that portion of the state of Nebraska commencing at the southeast corner of township seventeen (17) north, of range thirty-six (36) west of the sixth principal meridian; thence north to the northeast corner of township twenty (20) north, of range thirty-six (36) west; thence west along said township line to the east line of Cheyenne county; thence south along the east line of Cheyenne county to the north line of Keith county; thence east along the north line of Keith county to the place of beginning, be and the same shall constitute the county of Arthur.

1887, p. 344.

730. The county of Banner is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southeast corner of section thirty-six, in township seventeen north, of range fifty-three west of the sixth principal meridian; thence due north on the range line between range fifty-two and range fifty-three, to the northeast corner of section twenty-four, township twenty north, range fifty-three west; thence due west on the section line to the point where said section line intersects the east line of the territory of Wyoming; thence south along the west line of the state of Nebraska to a point where said state line intersects the township line between townships sixteen and seventeen north, of range fifty-eight west; thence due east on said township line to the place of beginning.

Formed from Cheyenne county by vote November 6, 1888.

731. [Blaine.]-That all that portion of the state of Nebraska commencing at the southeast corner of township twenty-one (21), range twenty-one (21), running thence north to the northeast corner of township twenty-four (24), range twenty-one (21), township twenty-four (24); thence west to the northwest corner of township twenty-four (24), range twenty-five (25); thence south to the southwest corner of township twenty-one (21), range twenty-five (25); thence east to the southeast corner of township twenty-one (21), range twenty-one (21), to the place of beginning; that the territory within said boundary may be set apart and hereafter known as Blaine county, subject to the organization as such at the will of her people at some future time.

1885, p. 205.

732. The county of Boone is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of township eighteen north, of range eight west; thence east along the northern boundary of the Pawnee reservation, to a point where the dividing line between ranges four and five west intersect the same; thence north to the northeast corner of township twenty-two north, of range five west; thence west to the northwest corner of township twenty-two north, of range eight west; thence south to the place of beginning.

733. The county of Box Butte is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southeast corner of township 24 north, range 47 west; thence north to the northeast corner of township 28 north, range 47 west; thence west to the northwest corner of township 28 north, range 52 west; thence south to the southwest corner of township 24 north, range 52 west; thence east to the place of beginning.

Formed from Dawes county by vote November 2, 1886.

734. That the unorganized territory lying north of Holt county and in the state of Nebraska be organized into a new county to be known as the county of Boyd.

735. The county of Boyd shall be bounded as follows: Commencing at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Niobrara river intersected by the range line between eight (8) and nine (9) west; thence north on said range line to the middle of the main channel of the Missouri river; thence up to the main channel of said river to a point intersected by forty-third (43) north parallel. Thence west on said parallel to a point intersected by the range line between sixteen (16) and seventeen (17); thence south on said line to a point in the middle of the main channel of the Niobrara river; thence down the main channel of said river to the place of beginning.

1891, p. 224.

736. [Brown.]-That all of that portion of the state of Nebraska commencing at the southeast corner of township twenty-five (25) north, of range seventeen (17) west of the sixth principal meridian; thence west to the southwest corner of township twenty-five (25), range twenty-four (24); thence north to the northern boundary of the state; thence east to the range line between ranges sixteen (16) and seventeen (17); thence south to the place of beginning, be and the same shall constitute the county of Brown.

1883, p. 198.

737. [Burt.]-That the territory bounded as follows: Commencing at a point where the north line of sections twenty-one (21), twenty-two (22), twenty-three (23), and twenty-four (24), of township twenty-four (24) north, of range ten (10) east of sixth principal meridian, intersects the east boundary line of the state of Nebraska; thence west along said section lines to the northwest corner of said section twentyone (21); thence south along the west line of said sections twenty-one (21) and twenty-eight (28) to the south boundary line of the Omaha Indian reservation; thence west on the south boundary line of said reservation to the line dividing ranges. Beven (7) and eight (8) east; thence south by said line to the south line of township twenty-one (21) north, of range eight (8) east; thence east by said line to the northeast corner of section six (6), in township twenty (20) north, of range nine (9) east; thence south by section lines one (1) mile east of the guide meridian to the southwest corner of section twenty (20), in township twenty (20) north, of range nine (9) east; thence east by section lines to the state boundary; thence northwardly up said boundary to the place of beginning, shall constitute the county of Burt.

Amended 1889, p. 72.

738. The county of Butler is bounded as follows: Commencing at the south

east corner of township thirteen north, of range four east; thence north to the southbank of main channel of the Platte river; thence along the south bank of the main channel of the Platte river to the northwest corner of township sixteen north, of range one east; thence south to the southwest corner of township thirteen north, of range one east; thence east to the place of beginning.

Amended 1875, p. 70; 1879, p. 109.

739. The county of Buffalo is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point where the dividing line between ranges twelve and thirteen crosses the southern channel of the Platte river; thence up said channel to a point where the dividing line between ranges eighteen and nineteen intersect the same; thence north along said line to the third standard parallel; thence east along said parallel to the northeast corner of township twelve north, of range thirteen west; thence south to the place of beginning.

740. The county of Cass is bounded as follows: Commencing at the south west corner of township ten north, of range nine east; thence east to the middle of the main channel of the Missouri river; thence up said channel until it intersects the Platte river; thence up said Platte river until it intersects the line dividing townships twelve and thirteen north, the last time; thence west to the northwest corner of township twelve north, of range ten east; thence south two miles; thence west six miles; thence south to the place of beginning.

741. The county of Cedar is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Missouri river, at which the line dividing ranges one and two west crosses said river; thence south to the southwest corner of township twenty-nine north, of range one west; thence east to the southeast corner of township twenty-nine north, of range one west; thence south to the southeast corner of township twenty-eight north, of range one west; thence east to the southeast corner of township twenty-eight north, of range three east; thence north to the middle of the main channel of the Missouri river; thence up said channel to the place of beginning.

Amended 1875, p. 73.

742. [Chase.]-That the following portion of the state of Nebraska, commencing at a point where the first standard parallel intersects the west boundary line of the state of Nebraska; thence east to the southeast corner of township five north, of range thirty-six; thence north to the northeast corner of township eight north, of range thirty-six; thence west to the west boundary line of the state of Nebraska; thence south to the place of beginning, shall hereafter be known as the county of Chase.

1873; G. S., p. 225.

743. [Cherry.]-That all that portion of the state of Nebraska commencing at the southeast corner of township twenty-five (25) north, of range twenty-five (25) west of the 6th principal meridian; thence west to the southwest corner of township twenty-five (25) north, of range forty (40); thence north on the east line of Sioux county to the northern boundary line of the state of Nebraska; thence east along said boundary line to the range line between ranges twenty-four (24) and twentyfive (25); thence south on said range line to the point of beginning, be and the same shall constitute the county of Cherry.

1883, p. 199.

744. The county of Cheyenne is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point formed by the intersection of the forty-first degree of north latitude with the twenty-seventh degree of longitude west from Washington; thence north along said twenty-seventh degree of west longitude to a point formed by its intersection with

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