Any city or township is hereby authorized to act as trustee for funds placed in trust to be used in improving, maintaining and caring for the lots, graves, monuments, vaults or other cemetery property of cemetery stockholders or lot owners and shall, from time to time, appropriate such funds and the income therefrom, if any, to the board of directors or trustees of such association or company, for the purpose and according to the terms mentioned in the deed in trust, to be used by such board for the purposes of the trust: Provided, That the city or township shall not be held liable for the misuse of such funds by the said board.
K.S.A. 12-1418