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HISTORY OF SAGINAW COUNTY.

of the City Council was, that the sheriff of the county took possession of the cemetery grounds, May 19, 1881, placed David Le
Roy in charge, and ordered W. T. Arnold —the sexton for the last
22 years-to give up possession of his official residence on the
20th of the same month.
By an act of the State Legislature. approved by Governor Jerome,
June 1, 1881, the question of title to the cemretery is settled for
the time being. It provides, " That the care, custody and control
of the Bracy Hill cemetery, in the city of East Saginaw, is hereby
conferred upon and vested in the said city of East Saginaw, the same
to be exercised in accordance with the charter of said city, as therein
provided for the control of city cemeteries.
"The city of East Saginaw shall pay to the treasurer of the
township of Buena Vista such proportion of the purchase price
in the year 1854, of said cemetery, as the valuation of that portion of Buena Vista township, as now constituted, bears to the valuation of that portion of Buena Vista as it was in 1854, and which
is now within the city of East Saginaw, as the same was valued
upon the assessment roll of 1854,as a basis for State and county taxes,
and also interest thereon at the rate of seven per cent., from and
after the first day of January, 1855. to date of payment; and upon
such payment being made or tendered, the authority of the Board
of Health of said township shall cease; and the Board of Health of
said township shall use said money only for the purchase or imnprovement of a cemetery for said township. The Township Board
of Buena Vista is at liberty to test the constitutionality of the Act.
Equity will sustain the city's claim to its necropolis.
The Catholei Cemetery is located near, the city cemetery of
Brady Hill. Both burial grounds are neatly arranged and contain
many fine memorial monuments.
MASONIC 1IISTORY.
St. Bernhard Coonmanadery, No. 16, Kt. T.,was organized in 1866
At the annual conclave of the coiiinrnandeiy, the following were
elected officers for the ensuing year: F. E. Ioyt, E. C.; T. E. Borde ), Gen'l: Geo. L. Remington, Capt. Gen.; Ed. Saunders, Prel.;
F. A. Ashley, S. W.; A. D. Macomber, J. W.; Win. H. Clark,
Treas.; J. 1H. Woollacott, Rec.; Win. Grant, St. B.; W. IH. Cambrey, Swd. B.; Chas. A. Lee, Warden; Win. Cole, Sent.; Win. Williamson, C. W. Gray, 0. J. Htetherington, Guards.
SaginawV Lodge, No. 77, F. &< A. M., was organlized under dispensation, and its first meeting hleld June 23, 1855. The dispensation was granted by the Grand Lodge to M. B. Hess, as W. M.;
David Hughes, S. W., and James A. Large, I. W. The charter
memnbers were S. C. Munson, S. C. Beach, Absalom F. Hayden,
and David F. Iess. On the last two days of July, 1855, R. W.
Bela Cogshall, then G. V. and L., assisted in conferring the
degrec of E. A. on Norman Little, W. L. P. Little, W. L. Webber