Trustees Records, Vol. 2, 1854 (page 251)

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Upon motion of Mr Curtis.

Voted that the foregoing report be adopted.

Also upon motion of Mr Curtis,

Certificate book to be prepared _

Voted that the Secretary, under the Direction
of the Committee upon Lots, be requested to have
prepared for the Superintendent, the Certificate
Book and Record, referred to in this report
of the Committee.

Report _

Report of Com^ee on relations and obligations of this Corporation to Mass. Hort. Society _

"The Committee appointed to consider the
relations and obligations of the Proprietors of Mount
Auburn Cemetery to the Massachusetts Horticultural Soci-
ety, with special reference to the Stone Farm, have con-
sidered the subject and ask leave to report. _

The question to which they have devoted their
attention is, whether in case the Stone Farm shall
be annexed to the Cemetery, and burial lots therein
be sold, the Horticultural Society will be entitled to any
part of the proceeds of such sales. _

It will be perceived that this is a question of
importance. If the Trustees should dedicate that land
to the purposes of a Cemetery, it will be an irrevocable
act. Your Committee were unwilling to assume the respon-
sibility of determining this question: they submitted it with
the Charter and other documents to three of the most eminent
Counsel in Boston - Messrs C. G. Loring, S. Bartlett,
and B. R. Curtis, separately; the result of their opinions
is that the Horticultural Society will not be entitled
to any portion of the proceeds of sale of lots laid out
in the land comprising the Stone Farm.