Trustees Records, Vol. 1, 1835 (page 273)

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it shall not be lawful for the said mortgage or those claiming
under him to take possession of the mortgaged premises, but
the same shall remain in the possession and control, and
for the sole benefit of the mortgager, and those claiming under
the mortgager. In Witness whereof. the said Corporation hath
caused its common seal to be affixed to these presents, and the
same to be signed by its Treasurer and countersigned by its
Secretary, both thereto duly authorized, on this seventeenth day
of April. A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty four.

Countersignees
Henry M. Parker - Secretary

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Geo. W^m Bond.
Treasurer.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Suffolk ss. April 25. A.D. 1854 --
Then personally appeared George W. Bond. Treasurer, and Henry M.
Parker. Secretary. and acknowledged the foregoing instrument by them
officially subscribes, to be the free act and deed of the Proprietors
of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn.

Before me Josephus Eastman -- Justice of the Peace.
[Here follows, on the original deed, a certifies copy of the note passed
April 22^nd A.D. 1854. see page 269. authorising this instrument to be executed]

A true copy of deed - Attest Henry M. Parker. Secretary --