Before any money shall be appropriated under this act, the cemetery association owning cemetery where it is proposed to erect said monument shall deed to the county or city so appropriating said money a lot or lots in said cemetery for the purpose of erecting thereon the monument as aforesaid. Said lot or lots shall be and remain the property of the county or city erecting said monument, and shall at all times be under the care of the board of county commissioners or the governing body, the same as other county and city property.