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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Proprietors 1843.

Mount Auburn Cemetery

The annual meeting of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn will be held on Monday the 6^th day of February 1843 at 4 oclock P.M. at the office of the Subscriber, to choose Trustees for the ensuring year, to hear the report of the Treasurer, & to act on any other business which may come before the said meeting -

B. R. Curtis, Sec^y.

Pursuant to the above notice which was published in several newspapers printed in Boston more than seven days before the said time of meeting, the said Proprietors met at the time & place therein designated In the absence of the President Joseph T. Buckingham was chose chairman. The report of the Treasurer having been read it was. Voted That the same be accepted & recorded

Trustees chosen.

Voted & chose by ballot the following named gentlemen as Trustees for the year ensuing. Joseph Story, Jacob Bigelow Martin Brimmer C. P. Curtis, B. R. Curtis Geo W. Crockett B. A. Gould Isaac Parker James Read

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Voted that representatives be designated for lots of deceased proprietors as follows: _

Represent^s for lots 134, 149 _

Charles E. Buckingham of Boston, a son of Joseph T. Buckingham late proprietor of lots numbered 134 and 149 to represent said lots: _

436 _

Charles Boyden, of Cambridge, a son of Dwight Boyden, deceased, late proprietor of lot numbered 436, to represent said lot: _

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J. Walter Read of Boston, son in law of Sophia A Dugan, late proprietor of lot numbered 2804, to represent said lot: _

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William Bird 2^d of Brookline, nephew, as well as Executor and trustee under the will of Eveline Stone, late proprietor of lot numbered 3068, to represent said lot. _

The meeting was then adjourned. _

Attest Austin J. Coolidge, Sec.y

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Oath of Secretary _

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Suffolk Ss. Boston February 20. 1862. There personally appeared Austin J. Coolidge, and made oath that he would faithfully perform the duties of the Secretary of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, before me;

C.P. Curtis Justice of the Peace.

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Dec. 2^d. 1831

===Dec. 2. 1831.===

At a meeting of the Garden & Cemetery Committee held this day, there were present, Mess. Bigelow, Bond- Cook, Brimmer, Gould & Pratt.

Voted, That the application of Wm Lawrence, G. W. Pratt, S. Pond, J. T. Buckingham & others relative to the extension of certain lots in the grounds appropriated to the Cemetery be & is hereby acceded to.

Sub-Com^ee to lay out Lots

Voted, that the SubCommittee be authorized to lay out the lots thus applied for, & any others that may be required by other individuals until further orders from the Committee.

Proprietors of Lots, &c.

Voted, that no proprietor of a lot shall receive any fees or reward from any person whatever for the interment of dead bodies within his said lot.

Sexton

Voted, that Mr. B A Gould be added to the SubCommittee Voted, that the subCom^e. be requested & they are hereby authorized to procure a suitable person for Sexton or agent in the capacity of undertaker in Boston & Cambridge -

===Gift ot Lot to Gen. Dearborn===

In consideration of the very acceptable services rendered by Gen. Dearborn at Mount Auburn, for the assiduity he has manifested in carrying into effect the purposes & designs of the Committee, It was in motion of Mr. Brimmer, voted unanimously that the lot selected by him in the grounds appropriated to the Cemetery, be presented to him in behalf of the proprietors & that the same shall be conveyed to him, & to his heirs in the manner prescribed by the rules & regulations of the association,