Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five

An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn.

Section 1^st. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled and by the authority of the same, That Joseph Story, John Davis, Jacob Bigelow, Isaac Parker, George Bond, and Charles P Curtis, together with such other persons as are Proprietors of Lots in the Cemetery at Mount Auburn in the towns of Cambridge and Watertown in the County of Middlesex, and who shall in writing signify their assent to this Act, their successors and assigns be, and they hereby are created a Corporation by the name of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, and they shall have all the powers and privileges contained in the Statute of the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty three. Chapter Eighty three.

Section 2^nd. Be it further enacted, That the said Corporation may take and hold in fee simple the Garden and Cemetery at Mount Auburn, now held by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and any other lands adjacent thereto, not exceeding fifty acres in addition to said Garden and Cemetery upon the same trusts and for the same purposes and with the same powers and privileges as the said Massachusetts Horticultural Society now hold the same by virtue of the Statute of the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty one, Chapter Sixty nine; and may also take and hold any personal estate not exceeding in value, Fifty thousand Dollars to be applied to purposes connected with and appropriate to the objects of said establishment.

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The subscribers, being Proprietors of lots in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, hereby signify their assent to the Act of the Legislature passed the thirty first day of March AD. eighteen hundred & thirty five, entitled an Act to incorporated the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn.— Dated April 21 1835.

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Geo Whittemore L.C.Thwing. James Means Th S Brewer James S. Savage John G. Palfrey Leonard Stone David Woodman Jr Chas C. Smith Jon Winship Francis Winship} S. W. Holbrook } A. D. Story by } Jon Winship William Watriss Esq.^re to the Estate of Jn. T. Torrey H. Rogers Kendall Samuel [Walkers?]. Cheever Newhall Levi Thaxter Martin Smith Andrew Fearing Alex. Young. Henry Blaney.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Suffolk ss. On the twenty first day of April AD. eighteen hundred & thirty five, personally appeared Charles P. Curtis and made oath that he would faithfully discharge the duties of Secretary of the Corporation called the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn

Ja^s Pickering Justice of the Peace,