An Act to Incorporate the Evergreen Cemetery Company of Bonaventure, § 5, 1847 Ga. Laws 136, 138 (Miller Grieve 1848).

"AN ACT to Incorporate the Evergreen Cemetery Company of Bonaventure...

    ...Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 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, and liable to indictment therefore, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not less than five dollars or more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the common jail of Chatham county, or both, at the discretion of the Court, according to the nature and aggravation of the offence; and such offender shall also be liable in an action of trespass, to be brought against him in any Court of competent jurisdiction in the name of the Evergreen Cemetery Company of Bonaventure, to pay all such damages as shall have been occasioned by his unlawful act or acts; which money when recovered shall be applied by the said corporation, under the direction of the managers aforesaid, to the reparation and restoration of the property destroyed or injured as above; and in all such suits, members of the said corporation shall be competent witnesses."