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The Hon. Robert S. Calvert, page 3 (M-228)
Provision is made for the filling of vacancies in
membership of the Committee of the Association in order to
provide that the Committee shall be self-perpetuating.
The trust indenture executed by the Oak Hill Cemetery
Association of Flatonia recites the granting and delivery of
certain properties to the persons who compose the Oak Hill
Cemetery Endowment Fund Committee, as trustees, for the
purposes previously set out. The total at the time of exe-
cution was the amount of $3,9;0.00.
Paragraph V declares the purpose of the trust which
may be briefly summarized and quoted as follows:
(1) The principal of the Endowment Fund is
to be &ept intact forever.
"(2) So much of the income from such Oak
Hill Cemetery Endowment Fund as may be necessary
for such purpose shall annually be used by the
trustees for the maintenance of the lots here-
inafter enumerated' and specified, and for the
upkeep and maintenance of such other lots as
may hereafter be provided for by donations to
the Oak Hill Cemetery Endowment Fund as herein-
after provided."
(3) Any income from the Endowment Fund
which L6 not expended for the purposes set out
in paragraph (2) shall become a part of the
corpus of the Oak Hill Cemetery Endowment Fund.
"(4) It is contemplated that the trustees
may annually pay over the income from the Oak
Hill Cemetery Endowment Fund to the Oak Hill
Cemetery Association and rely upon such associa-
tion to maintain the lots for the maintenance
of which this fund is created."
Paragraph VI sets out the specified lots for the main-
tanance of which the income from the Endowment is to be expend-
ed and enumerates on the official plat of said Cemetery each
specified amount following the date of the donation, the donor's
name and lot name and the plat number of the lot.-1116-
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-228, text, May 6, 1968; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth269447/m1/3/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.