appear the name of the person or persons owning the lot, the description of the lot, the price paid therefor, and the time when the deed was executed and delivered.

Sec. 8. It shall not be lawful for any person to obstruct or cause to be obstructed, nor permit or suffer any obstruction occasioned by him, or those under whom he claims to be, to remain, in any street or alley of the public cemetery of said city, and it shall be the duty of the sexton to remove all such obstructions, at the expense of the persons occasioning or permitting the same as aforesaid, which, upon conviction, shall be included in the fine adjudged against him.

Sec. 9. The board of cemetery trustees shall, whenever necessary, designate suitable lots in the public cemetery for the interment of the corpse of any deceased poor person or stranger; and it shall be the duty of the sexton to inter any such corpse in any lot so designated and no other.

Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of the sexton to keep a register of all interments made in the public cemetery, in which shall be stated the name of the deceased, his or her late residence, the place of his or her birth, his or her occupation, and the disease or complaint of which he or she died, and at the expiration of every quarter report the same to the common council and the board of cemetery trustees, and cause a copy thereof to be published in the city newspaper. The sexton shall, also, at the expiration of his term of office, deliver said register to his successor in office or to the board of cemetery trustees.

Sec. 11. The board of cemetery trustees, when directed by the common council, shall cause to be provided a receiving tomb, and it shall be their duty to cause the streets and alleys of the cemetery to be graded and worked, and such other improvement of said cemetery grounds as may be for the best interests of the city.

Sec. 12. The clerk of the board of cemetery trustees shall cause to be printed, at the expense of the city, to be paid out of the cemetery fund, the following rules and regulations, and attach one to each deed of a cemetery lot delivered to him by the person entitled to receive same.

First. Lots shall not be used for any other purpose than as a place of burial for the dead.

Second. Proprietors shall not allow interment to be made in their lots for a remuneration.

Third. The proprietor of each lot shall have a right to inclose the same with a hedge or with a fence, railing of stone, marble or iron not over three feet high. All such fence or railing should be neat and symmetrical.

Fourth. The proprietor of each lot shall also have the right to erect all proper stone monuments or sepulchral structures thereon, and to cultivate trees, shrubs and plants in the same, but no trees growing within the lots or border shall be cut down or destroyed without the consent of the cemetery trustees.

Fifth. If any tree or shrub situate in any lot shall, by means of their roots, branches or otherwise, become detrimental to the adjacent lots or avenues, or dangerous or inconvenient to passengers, it shall be the duty of the board of cemetery trustees, and they will have the right, to enter said lots and remove or cause said trees and shrubs or such portion thereof as are detrimental, dangerous or inconvenient, to be removed.

Sixth. If any monument or effigy, or any struc ture whatever of any description be placed in or upon any lot, which shall be determined by the common council to be offensive or improper, the board of cemetery trustees shall have the right, and it shall be their duty, to enter upon said lot and remove the said offensive or improper object or objects.

Seventh. No dininterment shall be allowed except as is prescribed by ordinance of the city of West Bay City.

Adopted June 27th, 1877.
Took effect July 5th, 1877.

An Ordinance for the Protection of Cemeteries in the

City of West Bay City.

Be it ordained by the City of West Bay City:

Section 1.

First. No person shall ride over the grounds of any cemetery in the City of West Bay City, Michigan, on horseback.

Second. No vehicle or carriages shall be driven at a greater speed than four miles an hour.

Third.

No horse shall be left unfastened in said

grounds. Fourth. No person shall pick any flower, cultivated or wild, or break any tree, shrub or plant, or pull the same up, or injure the same, unless he or she be the owner thereof.

Fifth. No person shall write upon, deface or injure any monument or other structure in or upon the grounds of said cemetery.

Sixth. No person shall disturb the quiet and good order of the place by noise or other improper conduct.

Seventh. No person shall enter or walk over any lots without the consent of the owner or sexton, nor disturb the soil on said premises without such consent.

Sec. 2. (As amended September 19, 1877.) Any person violating the provisions of the foregoing section shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a

fine not exceeding fifty dollars and costs of prosecution, or be imprisoned in the city penitentiary of the City of West Bay City, or the common jail of Bay county for a period not exceeding fifty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court trying the offender.

Adopted May 30th, 1877.

An Ordinance Relative to the Numbering of Buildings. Be it hereby ordained by the City of West Bay City:

Section 1. That all dwelling houses or other buildings erected or fronting on any street, lane, alley or other public place within the City of West Bay City, shall be numbered as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 2. The numbering of said dwelling houses or other buildings as aforesaid, shall be on the Philadelphia plan the numbering of all streets running east and west shall be as follows: The numbering to commence at Center street as a base line dividing streets running east and west and shall run east and west respectively from Center street. All fractional streets running east and west not beginning at Center street, shall be numbered from the eastern or western terminus of said streets to the eastern or western terminus of said streets as they commence east or west from said Center street respectively. All streets running north and south shall be numbered as follows: The numbering to commence at Midland street as a base line and shall run north and south respectively. All fractional streets running north and south not beginning at Midland street, shall be numbered from the northern or southern termius of said streets as they commence north or south of said Midland

street respectively. Provided, That in case of any vacant or unplatted lots or parcels of lands within the city limits, a number shall be reserved and allowed for every fifty feet of such vacant or unplatted lots or parcels of land facing or fronting on any street, etc., except that for every twentyfive feet of vacant land fronting on Midland street between Center street and the Saginaw river a number shall be allowed and reserved.

Sec. 3. The words North, South, East and West as used in the preceding section, shall be construed to include all streets running in a north or northerly, south or southerly, east or easterly and west or westerly direction respectively.

Sec. 4. The common council may designate and appoint some competent person or person to affix numbers, as hereinafter provided, in accordance with the plan set forth in section two of this ordinance, on all dwelling houses or other buildings as aforesaid, in case the owner, occupant or agent in any capacity, of any such building or dwelling house, shall neglect or refuse to affix or inscribe the proper number or numbers to said building or dwelling house after being duly notified as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the owner, agent or occupant of any dwelling house or other building, to affix or inscribe the proper number or numbers according to the plan set forth in section two of this ordinance, in plain and legible figures, at least one and one-half inches in length, in a conspicuous place in front of said building or dwelling house.

Sec. 6. Whenever any building or dwelling house, as aforesaid, shall be without a number or numbers, or shall have the wrong number affixed or inscribed thereon, it shall be the duty of the marshal or any member of the police force to serve or cause to be served on the owner, agent or occupant as aforesaid, a written or printed notice notifying said owner, agent or occupant to affix or