480 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Those whose residence is not noted were, so far as is known, 

 residents of Boston, though there were probably a few besides 

 those noted who did not live in Boston. 



D. Pages 80 and 110. 



ACT AUTHORIZING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A RURAL 

 CEMETERY BY THE MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by tJie Senate and House of Represen- 

 tatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, 

 That the Massachusetts Horticultural Society be, and hereby are, 

 authorized, in addition to the powers already conferred on them, to 

 dedicate and appropriate any part of the real estate now owned or 

 hereafter to be purchased by them, as and for a rural cemeten- or 

 burying ground, and for the erection of tombs, cenotaphs, or other 

 monuments, for or in memory of the dead ; and for this purpose, 

 to lay out the same in suitable lots or other subdivisions, for fam- 

 ily and other burying places ; and to plant and embellish the same 

 with shrubbery, flowers, trees, walks, and other rural ornaments, 

 and to enclose and divide the same with proper walls and enclos- 

 ures,* and to make and annex thereto other suitable appendages 

 and conveniences, as the Society shall from time to time deem 

 expedient. And whenever the said Society shall so lay out and 

 appropriate any of their real estate for a cemetery or burying 

 ground as aforesaid, the same shall be deemed a perpetual dedica- 

 tion thereof for the purposes aforesaid ; and the real estate so ded- 

 icated shall be forever held by the said Society in trust for such 

 purposes, and for none other. And the said Society shall have 

 authority to grant and convey to any person or persons, the sole 

 and exclusive right of burial, and of erecting tombs, cenotaphs, 

 and other monuments, in any such designated lots and subdivisions, 

 upon such terms and conditions, and subject to such regulations, as 

 the said Society shall, by their by-laws and regulations, prescribe. 

 And every right so granted and conveyed shall be held for the pur- 

 poses aforesaid, and for none other, as real estate by the proprie- 

 tor or proprietors thereof, and shall not be subject to attachment 

 or execution. 



