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.

Names	Names
John P Thorndike	Benjamin F. White	M Davis
Caleb Curtis	Chas. Barnard.	Joseph W Story
Henry J. Howe	Abel Adams	Isaac Parker
	Rob G Shaw	Saml Whitwell
Richard Fletcher	John Henshaw	Jacob Bigelow
Zeb Cook Jr	S. G. Williams	Charles Tappan
Robert Farley		Charles Brown.
B. B. Grant	Francis Watts	Charles P. Curtis.
Samuel R. Coolidge	Thomas Davis	John Farrar
Elisha Haskell	G. W. Pratt.	John C. Gray.
Oliver Eldredge	Andrew T. Hall	Saml Appleton
	Jas. T Buckingham	James Read
Henry H. Fuller.-		B. A. Gould
James Boyd	Chs. W. Foster	George Bond
C Frederick Adams	Francis J. Oliver	Aa Baldwin
Charles Scudder	Jas. Savage	Henry Lienow
Charles B. Shaw	Levi Bartlett	Robt Waterston
Elijah Cobb	Nathaniel Praxam	Amos Lawrence
	Henry Edwards	Abbott Lawrence
Tho. Motley	John Tappan.	Wm. W. Stone
J Martin	J. R. Ames?	Henry Rice
	Henry B. Stone	J Binney

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Corporation Meeting 21^st April 1835

A Meeting of the Proprietors of Lots in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn was held this twenty first day of April AD. eighteen hundred & thirty five pursuant to a Motification in the words & figures following; vis.

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of the Lots in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn that a meeting will be held on Tuesday April 21^st at 4 ^oClock P.M. at the Horticultural Room, N^o 79 Cornhill Boston to see if they will accept the Charter granted by the Legislature for incorporating the said Proprietors, and if accepted, to organize the said Corporation and transact all other business that may be legally brought before them._ Proprietors who shall before at or during the said meeting, by writing assent to becoming members of the Corporation will be entitled to vote by proxy._ Boston. April 14, 1835

Joseph Story John Davis J. Bigelow Isaac Parker George Bond Charles P. Curtis;___

which notification was published in a newspaper printed in Boston, called Boston Daily Advertiser and Patriot, seven days a least before the day appointed for the said meeting

The Hon^ble John Davis was elected Moderator

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Proprietors 1838

Pursuant to the above notice which was published in the Mercantile Journal, a newspaper printed in Boston, seven days before the time of the said meeting the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn met at the said Rooms of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society on Monday the fifth day of February 1838 at half past three oclock P.M. In the absence of the President Doctor Jacob Bigelow was chosen President pro tem.

Trustees Chosen.

The following named gentlemen were then elected ^^{by ballot} Trustees for the ensuing year Mess^rs Joseph Story, George Bond, Jacob Bigelow, Benj^m A. Gould, James Reed, Charles P. Curtis, Martin Brimmer, Benj^m R. Curtis, Isaac Parker.

Treas^r Report.

The Treasurers Report was then read by the Secretary & it was voted to accept the same & that it be recorded by the Secretary.-

voted that this meeting be now disolved.

A true record Attest B^m R. Curtis Sec^y.

The above mentioned report of the Treasurer was in the words & figures following vis: the Treasurer refers to the annexed balanced account of receipts & payments for the

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Treasures a/c

& rec^d by Treasurer this year 40 100.205.44

He asks allowance for the following vis

For pd 6 shares Bos & Lowell R Road par 500	___	2985
" [for] balance of the following accounts	___	___
Labor & Board	232.24	___
Expenses	845.55	___
Repairs of house	5	1082.79
"[for] pd Treas. M. Hor. So 1/4 nt. proceeds	___	___
sales per contra	___	884.06
" [for] balance transferred to [n.?] a/c	___	1253.89	6025.44

A true copy attest B. R. Curtis, Secy

Trustees.

Pursuant to a notice to that effect issued by the Secretary the Trustees of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn met at the home of George Bond Esq. on the eighth day of February in the year 1838 at 7 oclock P.M.

Mess^rs Bigelow, Bond, B.R. Curtis, Gould Parker & Reed appeared & signified their acceptance of the office of Trustee.

Officers chosen.

Voted & chose by ballot

Hon. Joseph Story President Geo. Bond Treasurer. B^m R. Curtis Secretary.