SETTLEMENT WITH MOUNT AUBURN. 105 



MOUNT AUBUEN CEMETERY. 



Boston, August 7, 1858. 

 At a meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, held this day. 

 President Stickney in the chair, a communication was received from Jacob 

 Bigelow, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery, 

 requesting a conference with a Committee from the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society, and it was 



Voted, That a committee of five shall be appointed by the chair, and that 

 the President shall be chairman of the committee, to confer with the Trus- 

 tees of Mount Auburn. 



The President appointed Marshall P. Wilder, Samuel Walker, Edward 

 S. Rand, Charles M. Hovey. William R. Austin was, on motion of Mr. 

 Strong, added to the Committee. 

 A true copy. 



Attest, F. Ltman Winship, Rec. Sec. 



Massachusetts Horticultoral Society, ^ 

 Horticultural Hall, Dec. 4, 1858. J 



At an adjourned meeting of the Society, held this day, President Stick- 

 ney in the chair, Edward S. Rand, from the Committee appointed August 

 7th, to confer with a Committee of the Board of Trustees of Mount Auburn, 

 offered the following report : — 



The Committee appointed at the meeting of the Society on the 7th of 

 August last, to confer with a Committee of the Proprietors of Mount Au- 

 burn Cemetery in relation to all matters in controversy between the two 

 corporations, beg leave to report — 



That they have attended to the duty assigned them ; that they met the 

 Committee appointed on behalf of the Proprietors of Mount Auburn Ceme- 

 tery, and, after a full statement and discussion of all matters of difference 

 and of all questions pending between the two corporations, a sub-commit- 

 tee was appointed, consisting of Dr. Bigelow and Benjamin A. Gould on 

 the part of the Proprietors of Mount Auburn, and of M. P. Wilder and 

 E. S. Rand on the part of this Society, to consider on what terms and in 

 what manner all such matters and questions could be adjusted ; that the 

 said sub-committee, after several meetings and a very full and careful con- 

 sideration of the whole subject, reported to the Committee of Conference a 



