An Act to Incorporate, 1835 (page 1)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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

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

Section 1. 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. Be it further enacted, That the said Corpora-
tion may take and hold in fee simple the Garden and
Cemetery at Mount Auburn, now held by the Massachu-
setts 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 pur-
poses 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 Sixtynine; and may
also take and hold any personal estate not exceeding in