Mount Auburn Cemetery

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The subscribers, being Proprietors of lots in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, hereby signify their assent to the Act of the Legislature passed the thirty first day of March AD. eighteen hundred & thirty five, entitled an Act to incorporated the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn.— Dated April 21 1835.

Names	Names
John P Thorndike	Benjamin F. White	M Davis
Caleb Curtis	Chas. Barnard.	Joseph W Story
Henry J. Howe	Abel Adams	Isaac Parker
	Rob G Shaw	Saml Whitwell
Richard Fletcher	John Henshaw	Jacob Bigelow
Zeb Cook Jr	S. G. Williams	Charles Tappan
Robert Farley		Charles Brown.
B. B. Grant	Francis Watts	Charles P. Curtis.
Samuel R. Coolidge	Thomas Davis	John Farrar
Elisha Haskell	G. W. Pratt.	John C. Gray.
Oliver Eldredge	Andrew T. Hall	Saml Appleton
	Jas. T Buckingham	James Read
Henry H. Fuller.-		B. A. Gould
James Boyd	Chs. W. Foster	George Bond
C Frederick Adams	Francis J. Oliver	Aa Baldwin
Charles Scudder	Jas. Savage	Henry Lienow
Charles B. Shaw	Levi Bartlett	Robt Waterston
Elijah Cobb	Nathaniel Praxam	Amos Lawrence
	Henry Edwards	Abbott Lawrence
Tho. Motley	John Tappan.	Wm. W. Stone
J Martin	J. R. Ames?	Henry Rice
	Henry B. Stone	J Binney

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and they were severally accepted. _

Trustees Report _

The President also read the Annual report of the Trustees, which was accepted. ~

Upon Motion of Dr Bates,

Printing of Reports

Voted that said reports be printed for distribution among the Proprietors. _

The President announced as the next business in order, to choose twelve Trustees (unless the meeting should determine upon a less number,) for the ensuing year: _

Choice of Trustees _

And upon motion of Mr T. J. Lee,,

Mode of Voting _

Voted, that a Committee of three be appointed by the Chair to receive, assort and count the votes; that the name of each proprietor be checked as his vote is deposited; that proprietors present in person vote before those present by proxy; and that where two or more proxies are presented from the same party, regard be paid to the one bearing the latest date. _

Com^ee to receive &c Votes _

The Chair appointed Messrs	Wm Brigham
___	John P. Thorndike
___	& Charles Hale.

As such committee. _

Mr Thorndike declining to serve, Mr Geo. C. Richardson was appointed in his place. _

Upon motion of Mr Curtis, Voted that the Secretary be added to the Committee,