Mount Auburn Cemetery

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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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By virtue of the above requisition I caused to be published in the Boston Daily Advertiser & Patriot, a newspaper printed in Boston, & more than seven days before the said time of meeting, the following notice, vis: "Mount Auburn Cemetery.— The Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn are hereby notified that a Special Meeting of that Corporation will be held at the Horticultural Rooms in Boston, on Friday the 10th day of July next at 4 o'clock P.M. to hear the reports of the Committees on the bye laws, & on a common seal, & to determine upon the acceptance of a conveyance from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, & to transact any other business which may legally come before the Corporation Boston June 30th 1835. By order of the Trustees.

B. R. Curtis Secy." Attest B. R. Curtis Secy.

Pursuant to the above notice the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn met at the Horticultural Rooms in Boston on friday the 10^th day of July 1835 at 4 oclock P.M. The Meeting was called to order by the President. Joseph Story Esq, who was appointed at the last meeting a committee to prepare such bye laws as he should deem necessary reported the following.