1847 Ga. Laws 138, An Act To Incorporate The Evergreen Cemetery Company Of Bonaventure, § 5.

That any person who shall willfully or wantonly destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other structure placed in the Cemetery aforesaid, or any fence, railing, or other work for the protection or ornament of the same, or of any burial-lot within the limits aforesaid, or shall willfully or wantonly destroy, remove, cut, break or injure any tree, shrub or plant within the limits aforesaid, or shall shoot or discharge any gun or other firearms within the limits aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor . . . .