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never be less than the current price of land in the Cemetery, which 

 is now fifty cents per square foot, except that intermediate spaces 

 between lots, when not intended for burial, may be sold for six- 

 teen and two thirds cents per square foot. 



Seventh, In case the said Proprietors shall hereafter build re 

 ceiving tombs, catacombs, or columbaria, the Horticultural Society 

 shall pa}- their proportion (one fourth) of the cost thereof, and 

 shall be entitled to one fourth .of the amounts received for inter- 

 ments therein. 



Eighth, The necessary releases and indentures to carry into 

 effect the foregoing arrangement shall be made and executed by 

 and between the said parties ; but the terms of the act of incor- 

 poration of the said Proprietors, so far as they regulate the rela- 

 tions between the two corporations, shall not be otherwise altered. 



The Committee of Conference further recommend, that the 

 amount which, under the foregoing arrangement, will be due from 

 the Horticultural Societ} T to the Proprietors of Mount Auburn Cem- 

 etery, be paid as follows, viz. : the said Proprietors shall retain, 

 from the -yearly amounts to which the Horticultural Society shall be 

 entitled upon the division of the proceeds of sales, one full half 

 part, until the whole indebtedness of the said Society shall be dis- 

 charged, with yearly interest ; the said Horticultural Society, how- 

 ever, reserving the right to pay the whole or any part of the said 

 sum, at any time. 



JACOB BIGELOW, 

 EDWARD S. RAND, 



For the Committee. 



And whereas the said Report has been adopted by the said Hor- 

 ticultural Society and by the Trustees of the said Proprietors, and 

 whereas it is found, upon a careful computation upon the basis 

 agreed on in the said Report, there will be due from the said Society 

 to the said Proprietors, on the first day of January next, the sum 

 of nine thousand and eight -^j- dollars : 



Now therefore, in order to carry into effect the recommendations 

 of the said Report .the said Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 and the said Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, in 

 consideration of the covenants hereby mutually entered into, and 

 of one dollar by each to the other paid, the receipt of which is 

 hereby acknowledged, do hereby covenant and agree, each with 

 the other, in manner following : 



