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derived most of the funds of the establishment, and that 

 they naturally felt that the greater part should be devoted 

 to the improvement of the cemetery. The subject was 

 much discussed both in and out of the meetings of the 

 Society, considerable warmth of feeling being elicited 

 among the friends of the two departments ; and it 

 became evident that a peaceful arrangement was not 

 likely to be made, except by a sale of Mount Auburn, 

 by the Horticultural Society, to a new corporation, to 

 be composed of the holders of lots. Accordingly, at a 

 stated meeting of the Horticultural Society, on the 6th 

 of December, 1834, on motion of Marshall P. Wilder, 

 it was voted, " That a committee be appointed to 

 consider the expediency of disposing of the interests of 

 this Society in the garden and cemetery of Mount 

 Auburn to the proprietors of lots in the cemetery, and 

 to report the conditions on which a conveyance shall be 

 made, if the committee shall deem the measure advis- 

 able." It was further voted, " That said committee shall 

 consist of seven persons, four of whom shall not be 

 proprietors of lots in the cemetery, and that Hon. 

 Joseph Story, M. P. Wilder, C. P. Curtis, Thomas 

 Hastings, E. Vose, J. A. Lowell, and E. Weston, jun., 

 Esqs., be that committee." This committee held several 

 somewhat excited sessions without arriving at any agree- 

 ment; but finally, when an excited meeting at the office 

 of Charles P. Curtis, in Court Street, was near break- 

 passed, that, in all future meetings of the Society, every proprietor of a cem- 

 etery lot containing not less than three hundred square feet, and, on the 

 decease of any proprietor, such representative of his or her lot as should be 

 designated by the Society, should be entitled to all the privileges of mem- 

 bership, and this provision was incorporated into a supplementary act of 

 the Legislature, for which a committee was at the same meeting authorized 

 to petition; thus making proprietors of lots in the cemetery not only life 

 but perpetual members of the Society. See Appendix D. 



