1859-04-06 Founding Document: An Act in Addition to an Act to Incorporate, 1831.015.027

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:

Sec. 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 succesors and assigns,} any lot or lots, and addititions 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 officer as may be designated by such corporate body.

Approved April 6. 1859.-

Sec. 3. Said Corporation may grant and convey to any proprietor of any lot or lots in said Cemetery, the space, or

passage-way intervening between such lot or lots, and the lot or lots of neighboring proprietors, upon condition that the land so granted shall forever remain open, unless it shall be enclosed by the consent of both the grantors and grantees.

An Act in Addition to an Act to incorporate the Prop^s of the Cem. of Mt. Auburn Approved April 6. 1859