ARRANGEMENT OF 1835. Ill 



ing up without any practical result, a compromise was 

 effected by the conciliatory efforts of Mr. Wilder, one 

 of the committee; and the parties came to an agree- 

 ment, the most important point of which was, that the 

 proceeds of all sales should be divided annually between 

 the Horticultural Society and the new corporation, in 

 such manner, that, after deducting fourteen hundred 

 dollars for the expenses of the cemetery, one-fourth 

 part of the gross proceeds should be paid to the Horti- 

 cultural Society, and the remaining three-fourths should 

 be retained by the Mount Auburn Corporation for its 

 own use. The report of the committee to this effect 

 was made by Judge Story on the 2d of January, 1835, 

 and accepted by the Society ; and a committee, consist- 

 ing of Marshall P. Wilder, John A. Lowell, and S. F. 

 Coolidge, was appointed to carry it into effect. 



Immediate application was made to the Legislature 

 for an act incorporating the proprietors of the cemetery, 

 which was passed March 31, 1835 ; 1 and a deed of con- 

 veyance, in which the conditions of the act were recited, 

 was afterwards made out from the Horticultural Society 

 to the newly incorporated proprietors. The vote of the 

 Society to execute the deed was passed June 6, 1835, 

 and the deed was dated June 19, 1835. 



The result of this arrangement has been highly au- 

 spicious to both parties, which, since it was made, have 

 been separately engaged, each in its own field of use- 

 fulness. The receipts from Mount Auburn, added to its 

 other sources of income, have given the Horticultural 

 Society stability and vigor, and enabled it to accomplish 

 a work beyond that of any similar society in this coun- 

 try ; while the Proprietors of Mount Auburn have been 



1 For Section X of this Act see Appendix E. 



