Any person desiring to purchase any lot shall pay the price thereof to the City Clerk, and it shall then be the duty of said Clerk to prepare a deed for such lot, which shall be signed by the Mayor and countersigned by said Clerk, and shall be executed under the seal of the city. All deeds to cemetery lots may be in the following form:
“KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That the City of Kewanee, Illinois, in the County of Henry, and State of Illinois, for and in consideration of dollars, to it in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, does hereby SELL AND CONVEY to of the County of and State of the following lot or parcel of ground situated in Cemetery in the City of Kewanee, in the County of Henry and State of Illinois, to wit:
in said Cemetery, according to the survey and plat thereof, to have and to hold the same forever, for burial purposes only, subject, however, at all times, to the laws of the State of Illinois and the bylaws, rules and regulations of said City of Kewanee, Illinois, including but not limited to Article I of the bylaws of the City of Kewanee cemeteries, which are as follows:
Every grantee in such deeds shall have the full legal ownership of his or her lot for the sole purpose of sepulture and interment under and in conformity with the laws of the State of Illinois and the bylaws, rules and regulations heretofore made or hereafter to be made by the City of Kewanee.
Lots cannot be conveyed or transferred except with the consent and approval of and in the manner provided by the City of Kewanee and no use, division, improvement or adamant can be made which the City by regulation prohibits or deems improper or unsuitable. The owner of any lot may dispose of it, or the use thereof, by all and if the owner dies intestate, the lot and all the rights therein shall descend to his or her heirs in common in equal undivided shares. The heirs or devises of such descendant owners shall furnish and file for record in the office of the City Clerk full and suitable proof of their ownership and right to use such lot before such ownership and right shall accrue or be enforceable and the ownership of and the right to use any such lots, however acquired, shall be subject to the foregoing regulations and conditions.
The City of Kewanee, Illinois, aforesaid, hereby acknowledges that the said consideration includes the amount required for the perpetual care of said lot, which sum is to be held by the Cemetery Board of Managers, of Kewanee, Illinois, in perpetuity, for the perpetual and permanent maintenance, care and preservation of said lot, and in consideration thereof the said Cemetery Board of Managers, of Kewanee, Illinois, hereby agrees to and with the said grantee, heirs, executors, administrators, assigns, to invest said sum of money in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, and the rules and regulations of said Board and to use the income thereof in such manner at the City shall deem most expedient for the proper care of said lot and said cemetery.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said City of Kewanee, Illinois, has caused these presents to be signed by its Mayor and attested by its Clerk and its corporate shall hereunto financed at Kewanee, Illinois, on this day of , A.D. .
CITY OF KEWANEE,
ATTEST: KEWANEE, ILLINOIS
City Clerk Mayor
STATE OF ILLINOIS )
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COUNTY OF HENRY )
I, , a Notary Public in and for said County and the State aforesaid DO HEREBY CERTIFY that and , personally known to me by the same persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument appeared before me this day in person and acknowledged that the signed and delivered said instrument as their free and voluntary act for the uses and purposes therein set forth, including the release and waiver of the right of homestead.
Given under my hand and notarial seal this day of , A.D., .
NOTARY PUBLIC
My Commission Expires: ”
('71 Code, § 9-4-3) (Ord. 2561, passed 2-24-86)