1835_MHS-Agreement4_1831_015_039_4

At a stated Meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
held on Saturday, June Sixth, A.D. 1835

Hon. Elijah Vose, Senior Vice President, in the Chair. -
The following Preamble and vote were introduced, and after
discussion thereon, were passed, vis^t:

Whereas by an Act of the Legislature of this State passed
March 31^st 1835, the Proprietors of the Lots in the Cemetery of
Mount Auburn, were created a corporation by the name of "The
Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn", and said Proprie-
tors have in writing informed this Society that they have organized
themselves under said Act, and have requested a conveyance of
the Land in the Towns of Cambridge and Watertown known as
Mount Auburn, together with all the Land belonging to this So-
ciety appurtenant & the same, agreeably to the terms of sepa-
ration entered into by said Proprietors and this Society on the
Day of [blank] last, therefore

Voted, that Elijah Vose, Jonathan Winship, Robert T. Paine,
Marshal P. Wilder, and Isaac P. Davis be and they are
hereby authorised (as soon as it is, in their opinion, expedient,)
to execute, acknowledge and deliver to the said Proprietors of
the Lots in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, a Deed or convey
ance in fee simple, and under the Seal of this Society, of all
the Property and Estate of the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society in and to the Lands in the Towns of Cambridge and
Watertown, in the county of Middlesex, generally heretofore known
as the Cemetery and Experimental Garden at Mount Auburn,
together with all the Lands appurtenant to the same, in which
this Society has any property or estate. The same Lands
being in the whole estimated to contain about 110 Acres.

And that said Deed shall not contain any convenant of
Warranty of the Title of said Lands, but shall contain the
conditions or terms of separation agreed on by this Society
and the said Proprietors

A true copy from the Record
(signed) Robert Trust Paine
Robert Treat Paine Recording Secretary