Oak Lawn Cemetery Articles of Association

OAKLAWN

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 12/30/2014 at 11:59:30

Iowa Plain Dealer December 24, 1891

OAK LAWN CEMETERY.

This association was duly incorporated in 1874 or there about, and its articles of association placed on record. Its management is entrusted to a board of five trustees who are authorized to select from their own number, a President, Treasurer and Secretary. Vacancies when complete, are filled by election, when partial by the remaining members of the association. Section 8 provides for an annual election on the first day of January of each year, at which time an entire board of trustees is to be elected. The Secretary is required to give five days notice of the time and place of such election in Cresco, by publishing notice thereof in one or more papers in said town. Section 9 requires the trustees to annually report the financial condition of the association fully and in detail. For the year of grace 1892 such election will occur on the first day thereof at the Court room in Cresco from one o’clock to four o’clock p. m., of said day at which election all persons owning lots in the cemetery, and all members of the association are requested to come in and record their votes. It is time that some report is made to lot owners of what has been done with the funds received from the sale of lots, what its present indebetedness{sp} is, if any, and what are its resources for needed improvements on the grounds and about its enclosure. The public is entitled to this and if the present board fail to give the information, those interested must resort to “squatter sovereignty” and organize anew.

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