Trustees Records, Vol. 1, 1835 (page 001)

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five

An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn.

Section 1^st. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
in General Court assembled and by the authority of the same, That
Joseph Story, John Davis, Jacob Bigelow, Isaac Parker, George Bond,
and Charles P Curtis, together with such other persons as are Proprietors of
Lots in the Cemetery at Mount Auburn in the towns of Cambridge and
Watertown in the County of Middlesex, and who shall in writing signify
their assent to this Act, their successors and assigns be, and they hereby
are created a Corporation by the name of the Proprietors of the Cemetery
of Mount Auburn, and they shall have all the powers and privileges con-
tained in the Statute of the year One thousand eight hundred and
thirty three. Chapter Eighty three.

Section 2^nd. Be it further enacted, That the said Corporation may
take and hold in fee simple the Garden and Cemetery at Mount
Auburn, now held by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and
any other lands adjacent thereto, not exceeding fifty acres in addition to said
Garden and Cemetery upon the same trusts and for the same purposes
and with the same powers and privileges as the said Massachusetts
Horticultural Society now hold the same by virtue of the Statute of the
year One thousand eight hundred and thirty one, Chapter Sixty nine;
and may also take and hold any personal estate not exceeding in value,
Fifty thousand Dollars to be applied to purposes connected with and
appropriate to the objects of said establishment.