Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 223)

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involved in it into the by-laws, such by-laws will not [?]
repugnant to the laws of the Commonwealth.

How then does it apply here? It is the privilege usually
accorded to a purchaser to receive the deed of as many
lots as are divisible by 300 square feet: i.e. if he buys
1500 feet, and wishes it laid out in five lots without
passageways, no objection is made, any more [?] sell
him five lots laid out contiguously, or [?] in
the Cemetery, each of which he may transfer to differ
ent persons, each of whom will have a vote. But
if a purchaser has waived their right by taking his
land in one enclosure as one lot, there is no reason
to extend to him the advantages of this provision.

The owner of five lots each of which contains 300 square
feet or upwards, upon the principle above laid down
will be entitled to five votes. There would seem to be no
more reason why this privilege should not enure here,
than in the case of "proprietors of several fields," and
those whose interest is greater should have more con-
trol than others whose interest is less. - For example,
the man who owns 299 feet has no voice at all. -
If then a certain number of feet was requisite, in the judgment
of the originators of their Cemetery, to give a man any voice or
control, why should not twice, or three, or ten times as
many give him more control. -