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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 Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural 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. 



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 Horticultural 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 mat- 

 ters appertaining to the regulation of the garden and cemetery ; 

 five at least of this committee shall be 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. 



The report was accepted, and the committee was 

 authorized to proceed in the establishment of the gar- 

 den and cemetery in conformity thereto. Subscription 

 papers were at once put in circulation through the 

 committee ; and in a short time seventy-five lots were 

 taken, and the remaining twenty-five subsequently 

 found buyers, chiefly through the exertions of Joseph 

 P. Bradlee, a member of the committee. Thus by the 

 3d of August, 1831, the one hundred lots were taken 

 by responsible subscribers, and the success of the long 

 conceived plan of an ornamented rural cemetery on an 

 extensive scale was made a certainty. 



The subscription paper is now in existence, contain- 

 ing the names of the persons who purchased the first 

 hundred lots, and who were thus largely instrumental 



