Hanover Cemetery/ Dartmouth Cemetery Association Journals

DARTMOUTH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION

April 27, 1938

Mr. Frederic P. Lord Dartmouth Cemetery Association Hanover, N.H.

Dear Sir:

We are in receipt of your letter of April 21 and beg to advise that we find no record of any corporation by the name of Dartmouth Cemetery Association located in Hanover, N.H.

Very truly yours, Enoch D Fuller Secretary of State

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RECTO: 1 Articles of Association

We the subscribers do hereby voluntarily associate ourselves together, to provide, hold and keep in repair suitable grounds & other conveniences for the burial of the dead in Hanover in the County of Grafton & State of New Hampshire, agreeably to the provisions of Chapter 145^th of the Revised Statutes. And for that purpose, do adopt the following Articles, specifying the object of the Association & the conditions on which it is formed.

Article 1. This Association shall be known and called by the name of "the Dartmouth Cemetery Association".

Article 2. The object of this Association is to provide, hold, & keep in repair suitable grounds and other conveniences in the vicinity of Dartmouth College for the burial of the dead, and for that purpose, to purchase and im prove the whole or a part of the parcel of land now owned by Prof. Alpheus Crosby, and lately owned by John S. Cram Esq^r lying westerly and northerly of the present burying ground, and [[implore]] said College - to improve said burying ground, and to procure such conveniences for the burial of the dead, as said Association may by vote designate.

Article 3. The Corporate property of this Association shall be divided into sixty shares of five dollars each. One half of each subscription for shares shall be paid at or before the first meeting, called as herein after provided and the other half on or before April 1 1846. The number of shares may be here

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after increased by vote of the Association

Article 4. Assessments may be raised from time to time, provided that, in no case shall the assessments of any one year exceed fifty per cent on the original value of the shares.

Article 5. The first meeting of this Association shall be holden at the Vestry near Dartmouth College on the seven teenth day of October A.D. 1845 at seven o'clock afternoon, and public notices of the same shall be given by posting up notices thereof at the Post Office in said Hanover, and at said Vestry two days previous to said meeting.

Article 6. This Association may, from time to time, adopt such by-laws and regulations as may be thought expedient.

Article 7. The provisions of this Association shall not be binding unless forty shares are subscribed on or before the day of holding the first meeting.

Article 8. In case of the dissolution of this Association, the lands purchased for the purposes of the Cemetery shall remain perpetually dedicated for the burial of the dead.

Hanover October 11 1845