Trustees Records, Vol. 4, 1865 (page 238)

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An Act

in addition to an act to incorporate the Proprietors of the
Cemetery of Mount Auburn.

Copy of act in addition to act of Incorporation _

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 Corporation 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