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Cemetery Corporation, reported an indenture, in substance revoking 

 the agreement of December 18, 1858, and establishing a new con- 

 tract by which- the Society shall continue to receive a fourth part of 

 the income of the cemetery as at present established, but shall 

 relinquish any claim to the income of any new lands that may be 

 purchased or the income from any columbaria now built or to be 

 built, in consideration that the said Society shall not be called upon 

 to pay any part of the cost of the same. 



After some consideration of the propositions stated in the pro- 

 posed indenture it was voted, on motion of Mr. Estabrook, to refer 

 the subject back to the committee for further report. 



President Weld reported in reference to the proposed settlement 

 of the Society's interest in the Hayes' estate that nothing could be 

 done in the matter at present. 



On motion of Mr. Farquhar an additional appropriation of 

 SIOOO.OO was voted for prizes for the Orchid Show of May, 1910, 

 and an appropriation of $4000. 00 was voted for prizes and gratuities 

 for the other exhibitions of that year. It was further voted that the 

 Committee on Prizes and Exhibitions be authorized to arrange 

 for the distribution of these two appropriations among the several 

 exhibition committees. 



The subject of the judging of the Orchid Show of May, 1910, was 

 considered and it was voted that the chairman of the Plant and 

 Flower Committee be requested to take into consideration and 

 report to the Board of Trustees the advisability of procuring a 

 special orchid expert to act as a referee at that exhibition. 



The following named persons were duly elected to membership 

 in the Society : 



Miss Anna B. Roberts of Boston, proposed by C. W. Parker. 



Mrs. Nellie B. Cumner of Brookline, proposed by W. H. Bowker. 



Henry Sargent Dawson of Jamaica Plain, proposed by W. P. 

 Rich. 



Louis Dupuy of Whitestone, N. Y., proposed by Thomas Roland. 



Mrs. J. De Forest Danielson of Boston, proposed by C. S. 

 Sargent. 



Philip Putnam Chase of Milton, proposed by N. T. Kidder. 



September 8. A communication from H. G. Wadlin, for the 



