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the road leading from Cambridge to Watertown, containing about 

 seventy-two acres, for the sum of six thousand dollars ; provided this 

 sum can be raised in the manner proposed in the second article of 

 this report. 



2. Thiit a subscription be opened for lots of ground in the said 

 tract, containing- not less than two hundred square feet each, at the 

 price of sixty dollars for each lot, — the subscription not to be binding 

 until one hundred lots are subscribed for. 



3. That when a hundred or more lots are taken, the right of choice 

 shall be disposed of at an auction, of which seasonable notice shall be 

 given to the subscribers. 



4. That those subscribers, who do not offer a premium for the right 

 of choosing, shall have their lots assigned to them by lot. 



5. That the fee of the land shall be vested in the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, but that the use of the lots, agreeably to an act 

 of the legislature respecting the same, shall be secured to the sub- 

 scribers, their heirs and assigns for ever. 



6. That the land devoted to the purpose of a Cemetery shall contain 

 not less than forty acres. 



7. That every subscriber, upon paying for his lot, shall become a 

 member for life of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, without 

 being subject to assessments. 



8. That a Garden and Cemetery Committee of nine persons shall be 

 chosen annually, first by the subscribers, and afterwards by the Horti- 

 cultural Society, whose duty it shall be to cause the necessary surveys 

 and allotments to be made, to assign a suitable tract of land for the 

 Garden of the Society, and to direct all matters appertaining to the 

 regulation of the Garden and Cemetery; five at least of this committee 

 shall he persons having rights in the Cemetery. 



9. That the establishment, including the Garden and Cemetery, be 

 called by a definite name, to be supplied by the committee. 



JOSEPH STORY, 

 DANIEL WEBSTER, 

 HENRY A. S. DEARBORN, 

 SAMUEL APPLETON, 

 CHARLES LOWELL, 

 JACOB BIGELOW, 

 EDWARD EVERETT, 

 GEORGE BOND, 

 GEORGE W. BRIMMER, 

 ABBOT LAWRENCE, 

 FRANKLIN DEXTER, 

 ALEXANDER H. EVERETT, 

 JAMES T. AUSTIN, 

 CHARLES P. CURTIS, 

 JOSEPH P. BRADLEE, 

 JOHN PIERPONT, 

 ZEBEDEE COOK, 

 CHARLES TAPPAN, 

 LUCIUS M. SARGENT, 

 GEORGE W. PRATT. 

 Boslon, Junt 11, 1831. 



