An Act Concerning Mt Auburn Cemetery, 1859 (page 1)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINE

AN ACT

in addition to an act to incorporate the proprietors of the cemetery at 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 corporation known as the proprietors of the cemetery of
Mount Auburn, may grant and convey to the heirs at law, devisees
or trustees of any deceased person, any lot or lots, and additions to the
same, in said cemetery, for the purpose of burial, or of erecting
tombs, cenotaphs and other monuments in and upon the same,
to be held by the grantees in accordance with the provisions of section
eight of the act creating said corporation.

Section 2. Said corporation may grant and convey to
any other corporate body, its successors and assigns, any lot or lots,
and additions thereto, for the purposes aforesaid, which lot or lots,
if containing more than three hundred square feet, may be
represented by the president, treasurer, or such other officers as
may be designated by such corporate body.

House of Representatives, April 5. 1859.
Passed to be enacted, Charles Hale, Speaker.
In Senate, April 5. 1859.
Passed to be enacted, Charles A. Phelps. President

April 6. 1859
Approved. Nath^l. P. Banks.