104 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 



tomb at Mount Auburn, another had been purchased, 

 under Park Street Church in Boston, at an expense of 

 two hundred dollars. The number of interments in the 

 cemetery was forty. 



Judge Story stated further, in his report, that, for 

 upwards of eighteen months, free access was given to 

 all who desired to visit the cemetery ; but that, certain 

 abuses arising, the committee adopted regulations deny- 

 ing admission to persons on horseback altogether, admit- 

 ting the proprietors of lots in carriages, and opening 

 the gates freely to persons on foot, as before. These 

 regulations were generally acceptable. The report rep- 

 resented the situation and prospects of Mount Auburn 

 as highly flattering ; though the need of a small edifice 

 in which the religious services at funerals might be 

 performed was felt, and a hope was expressed that 

 such a building might be soon erected. 



The eighth article of the Report of the Committee on 

 the Method of raising Subscriptions for the Experimen- 

 tal Garden and Cemetery provided for a garden and 

 cemetery committee, who should " direct all matters 

 appertaining to the regulation of the garden and ceme- 

 tery." This committee, at a meeting, on the 3d of 

 November, 1831, chose a secretary and a treasurer, the 

 latter officer being styled, in the reports of the commit- 

 tee, "treasurer of the cemetery," and recognized by a 

 vote of the Society, on the 4th of October, 1834, that 

 " all deeds relative to Mount Auburn shall be signed 

 by the treasurer of the cemetery committee in addi- 

 tion to the president " of the Society. The first report 

 of this officer accompanied the report of the Garden 

 and Cemetery Committee in 1833. The books of the 

 treasurer of the Society contain no record of the re- 



