1859-05-10 Founding Document: An Act Concerning Mt. Auburn Cemetery, 1831.010.007

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINE

AN ACT

in addition to an act to incorporate the proprietors of the cemetery at 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:

Section 1. The corporation known as the proprietors of the cemetery of Mount Auburn, may grant and convey to the heirs at law, devisees or trustees of any deceased person, any lot or lots, and additions to the same, in said cemetery, for the purpose of burial, or of erecting tombs, cenotaphs and other monuments in and upon the same, to be held by the grantees in accordance with the provisions of section eight of the act creating said corporation.

Section 2. Said corporation may grant and convey to any other corporate body, its successors and assigns, any lot or lots, and additions thereto, for the purposes aforesaid, which lot or lots, if containing more than three hundred square feet, may be represented by the president, treasurer, or such other officers as may be designated by such corporate body.

House of Representatives, April 5. 1859. Passed to be enacted, Charles Hale, Speaker. In Senate, April 5. 1859. Passed to be enacted, Charles A. Phelps. President

April 6. 1859 Approved. Nath^l. P. Banks.

Secretary's Department. Boston, May 10. 1859.

The foregoing is a true copy of the original act.

Witness the Seal of the Commonwealth here - unto affixed at the date last above-written.

Oliver Warren Secretary of the} Commonwealth}

An Act Concerning the Cemetery at Mt. Auburn