1850 Founding Document: An Act in Addition to an Act to Incorporate, 1831.010.006

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

In the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty.

An Act in addition to "An Act to incorporate the proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn".

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows. -

The corporation known as the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn may purchase and hold, in fee simple or otherwise, any real estate, or any interest, in any real estate, situate and lying in the towns of Cambridge and Watertown, in the county of Middlesex, anything in the Act of this Legislation passed March thirty first A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty five entitled "An Act to incorporate the proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn" to the contrary notwithstanding; Provided always, that such real estate by the said corporation so purchased, holden and processed as aforesaid, under the provisions of this act, shall not at any one time exceed one hundred acres in extent, in addition to whatever real estate the said corporation now holds, or is

Entitled to hold, by virtue of the act to which this Act is in addition as aforesaid.

House of Representatives, May 2^d 1850. Passed to be enacted. Ensign H. Kellogg. Speaker

In Senate, May 2. 1850. Passed to be Enacted, Marshall P. Wilder. President

May 3. 1850. Approved. Geo. N. Briggs

Secretary's Office. Boston. May 23.^d 1850.

I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the original Act

W^m. Tufts. Deputy Secretary of } the Commonwealth}

An Act in addition to an act to incorporate the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mt. Auburn.