1869-04-17 Founding Document: Additional Act of Incorporation, Election of Trustees, 1831.010.008

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINE.

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:--

Section 1. The authority conferred upon any cemetery corporation organized under the provisions of section two of chapter twenty-eight of the General Statutes to take and hold so much real and personal estate as may be necessary for the objects of its organization, is hereby vested in the proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn. Section 2. No member of said corporation shall in his individual right be entitled to more than one vote at the meetings of said corporation. Section 3. The officers of said corpo-

ration shall consist of twelve trustees, a treasurer, secretary and such other officers as the trustees may direct. The twelve persons who now constitute the board of trustees shall be divided by lot or otherwise, as they themselves may determine, into six classes of two each; and the persons of the first class shall go out of office on the day of the next annual meeting; and the persons of the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth classes shall go out of office, respectively, on the day of each succeeding annual election in the years eighteen hundred and seventy-one, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and eighteen hundred and seventyfive; and the two trustees who shall be chosen at the annual meeting in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-, and in each succeeding year, shall continue in office, respectively, for the term of six years. In case of the death

or resignation of any trustee, the vacancy shall be filled by the proprietors at the next annual meeting succeeding such death or resignation. Nothing herein contained shall prevent any person whose term of office shall have expired from being re-eligible.

Section 4. The secretary shall give notice of annual and special meetings of said corporation by sending by mail or otherwise, to each member of the corporation whose place of residence or business shall be known to him, a printed notice thereof, seven days before the time of such meeting, and by publication of such notice in one or more newspapers printed in Boston, seven days before the time of such meeting. At all meetings a quorum for business shall consist of not less than twenty five members.

Section 5. Such parts of sections two, three, four and five of chapter ninetysix of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and thirty five, or of any act in addition to which may be inconsistent with the provisions of this act

are hearby repealed.

House of Representatives, April 13, 1869. Passed to be enacted, Harvey Jewell, Speaker.

In Senate, April 15. 1869 Passed to be enacted, Rob^t C. Pitman, President

April 17, 1869 Approved William Claflin.

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Secretary's Department Boston, April 28. 1869. A true Copy of the original act. Attest. Oliver Warren. Secretary of the Commonwealth

Additional Act of Incorporation. Elections of Trustees &c- April 17. 1869-