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enabled to expend more than six hundred thousand dol- 

 lars in the preservation, improvement, embellishment, 

 and enlargement of their cemetery. 



Whatever of ill feeling had grown up between the 

 proprietors of lots in Mount Auburn and the other 

 members of the Horticultural Society was of short 

 duration. At the meeting of the Society on the 17th 

 of July, 1835, President Vose stated that one object of 

 the meeting was to consider the expediency of inviting 

 those gentlemen who had ceased to be members by the 

 recent act of separation of the Mount Auburn Ceme- 

 tery from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, to 

 become subscription members of the Society. A com- 

 mittee was appointed to invite these gentlemen to 

 become members of the Society ; and on the 27th of 

 September, Judge Story, who had been chairman of the 

 Garden and Cemetery Committee from the beginning, 

 and was chosen president of the Proprietors of Mount 

 Auburn, and who, probably, shared as largely in the 

 excitement attending the separation as any one, was 

 chosen a life member of the Society. At the same time 

 Benjamin A. Gould, who had been a member of the 

 Garden and Cemetery Committee from the beginning, 

 was chosen a subscription member. A further proof 

 of the good will of the Society toward the new corpo- 

 ration was shown in a motion to dispose the books in 

 the library relating to cemeteries in such manner that 

 they might be consulted by members of the Mount 

 Auburn Corporation. 



For many years no occasion existed for new adjust- 

 ments of the relations between the two corporations ; 

 but gradually differences arose, which it was thought 

 important to settle while some, at least, of the founders 



