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MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY. 



ACT INCORPORATING THE PROPRIETORS OF MOUNT AUBURN 



CEMETERY. 



Section 10. Be it further enacted, as follows : First, that the present 

 proprietors of lots in the said Cemetery, who shall become members of the 

 corporation created by this act, shall thenceforth cease to be members of 

 the said Horticultural Society, so far as their membership therein depends 

 on their being proprietors of lots in the said Cemetery. Secondly, that the 

 sales of the Cemetery lots shall continue to be made as fast as it is practi- 

 cable by the corporation created by this act, at a price not less than the 

 sum of sixty dollars for every lot containing three hundred square feet, and 

 so in proportion for any greater or less quantity, unless the said Horticul- 

 tural Society, and the corporation created by this act, shall mutually agree 

 to sell the same at a less price. Thirdly, that the proceeds of the first sales 

 of such lots, after deducting the annual expenses of the Cemetery estab- 

 lishment, shall be applied to the extinguishment of the present debts due 

 by the said Horticultural Society on account of the said Garden and Ceme- 

 tery, and after the extinguishment of the said debts, the balance of the said 

 proceeds, and the proceeds of all future sales, shall annually, on the first 

 Monday in every year, be divided between the said Horticultural Society 

 and the corporation created by this act, in manner following, namely : 

 fourteen hundred dollars shall be first deducted from the gross proceeds of 

 the sales of lots, during the preceding year, for the purpose of defraying 

 the superintendent's salary and other incidental expenses of the Cemetery 

 establishment, and the residue of the said gross proceeds shall be divided 

 between the said Horticultural Society, and the corporation created by this 

 act, as follows, namely : one fourth part thereof shall be received by and 

 paid over to the said Horticultural Society on the first Monday of January 

 of every year, and the remaining three fourth parts shall be retained and 

 held by the corporation created by this act, to their own use forever. And 

 if the sales of any year shall be less than fourteen hundred dollars, then 

 the deficiency shall be a charge on the sales of the succeeding year or 

 years. Fourthly, the money so received by the said Horticultural Society 

 shall be forever devoted and applied by the said Society to the purposes of 

 an experimental Garden, and to promote the art and science of horticulture, 



