The officers having control and management of a public cemetery, acting under sections 759.02 to 759.48, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may acquire property necessary, in the judgment of a majority of them, for a better approach thereto. No lot or parcel of land or part thereof upon which a dwelling house is situated shall be so appropriated. Such property may be acquired by gift, purchase, appropriation, or by exchange therefor of property of the cemetery used for an approach thereto, and which is, in the judgment of a majority of such officers, rendered unnecessary by such new approach.