Excerpt from Original Charter, Amendments to Charter, Together With the by-Laws and Rules and Regulations of the Bellefontaine Cemetery and Suggestions to Lot Owners, Etc: Also an Historical Sketch Cemetery, and Opened for the selection Of lots. 'additions to the grounds have been made from time to time, giving the whole present area of the Cemetery three hundred thirty-two and one-half acres. The amendments to the charter, proposed by an act of the Legislature, approved March 1st, 1851, were adopted by the Association at a meeting of the stockholders, held on the 8th day of November in the same year. By these amendments the name of the corporation was changed to the Bellefontaine Cemetery Association, and authority given the Board of Trustees after all debts should be paid, to determine by by laws (subject to the approval of the stockholders) to pay off the stockholders, and make lot owners holding not less than eight hundred square feet the corporators. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.