(765 ILCS 825/1) (from Ch. 21, par. 7)
Sec. 1. That in all cities of which the mayor and aldermen have heretofore been incorporated by any special act, as a cemetery association or body politic, it shall be lawful, a majority of their number assenting thereto, for such association or body politic to demise for a term of years, or to convey in perpetuity any real estate which it may have acquired by purchase or otherwise; and the real estate so conveyed shall be devoted exclusively for burial or cemetery purposes by the grantee or lessee thereof.
(Source: Laws 1875, p. 40.)
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