SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. 105 



ceipt or payment of any money whatever on account 

 of Mount Auburn during the time when it was owned 

 by the Horticultural Society. The committee reported 

 their doings at the annual meeting of the Society, on 

 one occasion asking authority to make a loan, and pur- 

 chase land, and, at another time, asking authority to 

 apply for amendments to the act of incorporation. With 

 these exceptions, the finances and general management 

 of the garden and cemetery seem to have been left 

 entirely to the committee. We have no information 

 that this course was in any degree the cause of the 

 separation of the Society from the cemetery, but believe 

 it is rather to be looked upon as an indication of that 

 diversity of interests which ultimately led to the sepa- 

 ration. 



On Saturday, the 20th of September, 1834, the 

 second annual report of the Garden and Cemetery 

 Committee was presented to the Society by Judge 

 Story, the chairman. The committee congratulated the 

 Society upon the continued improvement of the garden 

 and cemetery, and the favor and encouragement which 

 they had received from the public. They felt it to be 

 their first duty, however, to correct an erroneous idea 

 entertained by a portion of the community, that the 

 establishment was a private speculation for the benefit 

 of the members of the Society. This notion they pro- 

 nounced utterly unfounded, no individual having any 

 private interest in the establishment beyond what he 

 acquired as the proprietor of a lot in the cemetery, 

 which every man in the community might acquire upon 

 the same terms, the whole grounds being held in trust 

 by the Horticultural Society for the purposes of a gar- 

 den and cemetery. 



