Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Section 3^rd. Be it further enacted, That all persons who shall hereafter become Proprietors of Lots in said Cemetery of a size not less, each, than three hundred square feet, shall thereby become members of the said Corporation.

Section 4^th. Be it further enacted, That the Officers of the said Corporation shall consist of not less than seven nor more than Twelve Trustees, a Treasurer, Secretary, and such other Officers as they may direct. The Trustees shall be elected annually at the annual meeting, and shall hold their offices until others are chosen, And they shall choose one of their number to be President, who shall be also President of the Corporation, and they shall also choose the Secretary and Treasurer either from their own body or at large. And the said Trustees shall have the general management, superintendence and care of the property, expenditures, business and prudential concerns of the Corporation, and of the sales of lots in the said Cemetery, and they shall make a report of their doings to the Corporation at their annual meeting. The Treasurer shall give bonds for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, and shall have the superintendence, and management of the fiscal concerns of the Corporation, subject to the revision and control of the Trustees, to whom he shall make an Annual Report, which shall be laid before the Corporation at their annual meeting, And the Secretary shall be under oath for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, and shall record the doings at all meetings of the Corporation and of the Trustees.

Section 5^th. Be it further enacted, That the annual meetings of said Corporation shall be holden at such time and place as the Bye Laws shall direct, and the Secretary shall give notice thereof in one or more newspapers, printed in Boston seven days at least before the time of meeting,

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to ascertain the sales of Lots of the preceding year.

Section 11^th. Be it further enacted, that any three or more of the persons named in this Act shall have authority to call the first meeting of the said Corporation by an advertisement in one or more newspapers, printed in the City of Boston, seven days at least before the time of holding such meeting, and specifying the time and place thereof. And all Proprietors of Lots, who shall before, at or during the time of holding such meeting, by writing assent to this act shall be entitled to vote in person or by proxy at the said first meeting. And at such meeting or any adjournment thereof, any elections maybe had, and any business done, which are herein authorized to be had and done at an annual meeting, although the same may not be specified in the notice for the said meeting. And the first Board of Trustees, chosen at the said meeting shall continue in Office until the annual meeting of the said Corporation next ensuring their choice, and until another Board are chosen in the their stead in pursuance of this Act.

Section 12^th. Be it further enacted, That the said Cemetery shall be and hereby is declared exempted from all public taxes, so long as the same shall remain dedicated to the purposes of a Cemetery.

House of Rep^s March 27. 1835 Passed to be enacted (signed) Julius Rockwell Speaker

March 31 1835 Approved (signed) Samuel T Armstrong.

In Senate March 28 1835 Passed to be enacted (signed) George Bliss President

A copy att (signed) Edw D Rangs Secretary of the Commonwealth

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Corporation Meeting 21^st April 1835

A Meeting of the Proprietors of Lots in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn was held this twenty first day of April AD. eighteen hundred & thirty five pursuant to a Motification in the words & figures following; vis.

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of the Lots in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn that a meeting will be held on Tuesday April 21^st at 4 ^oClock P.M. at the Horticultural Room, N^o 79 Cornhill Boston to see if they will accept the Charter granted by the Legislature for incorporating the said Proprietors, and if accepted, to organize the said Corporation and transact all other business that may be legally brought before them._ Proprietors who shall before at or during the said meeting, by writing assent to becoming members of the Corporation will be entitled to vote by proxy._ Boston. April 14, 1835

Joseph Story John Davis J. Bigelow Isaac Parker George Bond Charles P. Curtis;___

which notification was published in a newspaper printed in Boston, called Boston Daily Advertiser and Patriot, seven days a least before the day appointed for the said meeting

The Hon^ble John Davis was elected Moderator

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of the Meeting and Charles P. Curtis was chosen Secretary, and was duly qualified.

Act of Incorporation accepted

The Act of the Legislature passed March 31, 1835 entitled an Act to incorporate the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn was read by the Secretary, and it was unanimously— Voted to accept the same and to proceed to organize the said Corporation;

Trustees chosen

It was then voted to proceed to the choice of nine Trustees, to be chosen by ballot, and Samuel Whitwell Esq. was appointed a Committee to receive sort & count the votes for trustees, and on his report it appeared that Mess^rs Joseph Story Samuel Appleton, George Bond, Jacob Bigelow, Benjamin A. Gould, Charles Brown, Charles P. Curtis, Joseph P. Bradlee and James Read were unanimously chosen Trustees of the said Corporation It was then voted that Joseph Story Esq. be a committee to prepare such By laws as he should deem necessary, who reported the followings; –

By Law_ Annual Meeting.

The annual Meeting of the Corporation shall be held on the twenty fourth day of September in each year ^being the day on which Mount Auburn was consecrated to the purposes of a Cemetary, unless the same day shall happen on a Sunday, in which case it shall be held on the day next succeeding; and the annual meeting shall ^^be held in the City of Boston at such place and time of the day as the Trustees shall appoint; –

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the first annual meeting shall be held on the twenty fourth day of September next; - It was voted to adopt & pass the same as one of The By Laws of the Corporation. -

Trustees to procure Conveyance

It was then voted that the Trustees be authorized to procure & accept a conveyance from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, of all the lands & tenements & personal estate held by them in Cambridge & Watertown or elsewhere appertaining to the Garden & Cemetery of Mount Auburn

This meeting was then adjourned to Tuesday May 19, 1835 at 4 ^oclock P.M. at the Horticultural Room, in Cornhill, Boston.

Attest Charles P. Curtis, Secretary

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk SS. On the twenty third day of April A.D. 1835, personally appeared Benjamin R. Curtis and made oath that he would faithfully discharge the duties of Secretary of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn -- Before me

Charles P. Curtis Justice of the Peace