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gentlemen constituted this committee : — Messrs. Joseph Story, 

 Daniel Webster, Henry A. S. Dearborn, Samuel Appleton, 

 Charles Lowell, Jacob Bigelow, Edward Everett, George Bond, 

 George W. Brimmer, Abbot Lawrence, James T. Austin, Frank- 

 lin Dexter, Alexander H. Everett, Charles P. Curtis, Joseph P. 

 Bradlee, John Pierpont, Zebedee Cook, jr., Charles Tappan, 

 Lucius M. Sargent, and George W. Pratt. This committee sub- 

 sequently offered the following Report, which was accepted, and 

 made the basis of subscription for those who might become 

 proprietors. 



The Committee of the Horticultural Society, to whom was referred the 

 method of raising subscriptions for the Experimental Garden and Ceme- 

 tery, beg leave to Report : — 



1. That it is expedient to purchase for a Garden and Cemetery, a tract 

 of land, commonly known by the name of Sweet Auburn, near 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. That a subscription be opened for lots of ground in the said tract, con- 

 taining 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, v/ho 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 Horti- 

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

 Legislature, respecting the same, shall be secured to the subscribers, their 

 heirs, and assigns, forever. 



C. 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 mem- 

 ber for life, of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, without being sub- 

 ject to assessments. 



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

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

 ral Society, whose duty it shall be to cause the necessary surveys and al- 

 lotments 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 Gar- 

 den and Cemetery ; and five at least of tliis Committee shall be persons 

 having rights in the Cemetry. 



'J. That the establishment, including the Garden and Cemetery, be called 

 by a definite name, to be supplied by the Committee. 



The protection of the Legislature of the Commonwealth, being 

 considered indispensable, the following Act, was applied for and 

 obtained. 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

 In the year of our Lord one thmisimd einht hundred and thirty-one. 

 An Act, in addition to an Act. entitled " An Act to incorporate the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society." 

 Section L Beit enacted by the Sciui'e and House of Representatives, in 

 General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the Massa- 



