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.

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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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Trustees. September 13^t, 1871.

Laid on the Table

After consideration, it was

Voted, – that the subject be laid on the table.

Stone work upon Lots Supt's mode of performing

Upon motion of M^r Turner it was

Voted, – that the^^{Committee on Grounds and the} Committee on Lots enquire into the method pursued by the Superintendent in performing work for the proprietors on their Lots as regards the stone curbing of them, and of the building tombs thereon: and that they report all the facts pertaining thereto to this Board at its next meeting.

Upon the petitions of the parties in interest, representatives were deisgnated for Lots, as follows, viz: –

312 Henry Whitwell of Boston, ^^{41 Tremont St}, Son of Samuel Whitwell, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Three hundred & twelve.

438 Joseph W. Patterson of N. York City, ^^{Care Messrs Patterson Son & Co Reade St} Son of Enoch Patterson, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Four hundred & thirty=eight.

798 Mrs. Alice B. Norris of Milwaukee, Wis., ^^{Care of Chas. W. Norris, 14 & 21 Erie StMilwaukee,} Daughter=in=law of Shepherd H. Norris, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Seven hundred & ninety=eight.

1652 M^rs Mary R. Brownell of Boston, ^^{93 Pembroke St} Widow of W^m E. Brownell, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Sixteen hundred & fifty=two.

1737 Merrick R. Pollard of Boston ^^{601 Tremont St}, Trustee ^^{under Will of} John Stratton, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Seventeen hundred & thirty=seven.