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MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY.

cease of certain parties to the proprietors of the cemetery of Mount
Auburn for perpetual care of a certain lot,” mentioned for so many
years in the latter part of the Treasurer’s report as a future asset of
the corporation, has been paid and added to the repair fund. The
parties were Miss Eunice M. and Miss Eliza Ann Gridley, of Boston,
proprietors of lot No. 721 on Cedar avenue; and by the death of
the last survivor the policy became due and was paid with interest
amounting to $6,363.99, on the 26th of April last. The terms
of this very liberal donation were that the income should be
especially devoted to the care and maintenance of the lot and its
monuments, and afterwards the surplus at the discretion of the Trus-
tees be devoted to the ornament and preservation of the grounds,
especial regard being paid in the first instance to Cedar avenue and
its immediate vicinity, and afterwards to the Cemetery generally.
Such donations as aiding the Trustees in their efforts to adorn and
beautify the Cemetery are especially gratifying and worthy of honor-
able mention.

For several years attention has been called in the appendix of our
reports to the legal position of the widow in regard to her right of
interment in the lot of her late husband. The subject was at last
brought to the attention of the Legislature by the Forest Hills
Cemetery Corporation in connection with other matters in which they
desired legislative aid. During the last session the following bill
was passed : —

LAWS AND RESOLVES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1883.

[CHAP. 262.

(AN ACT GIVING TO A WIFE THE RIGHT OF INTERMENT IN A BURIAL LOT OR TOMB
OWNED BY HER HUSBAND.)

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECT. 1. A wife shall be entitled to aright of interment for her own body
in any burial lot or tomb of which her husband was seized at any time during
coverture, and such right shall be exempt from the laws of conveyance, descent,
and devise; provided, such right may be released by her in the manner in
which she may release her dower.