Trustees Records, Vol. 4, 1865 (page 220)

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Trustees _ Feby. 6, 1869 _

Report on Amend^t of Charter continued _

different times, been unsuccessfully made to supersede the
existing board, by a new and less experienced body.

It is apprehended by many proprietors that the funds
designed for the preservation and improvement of the Cemetery
have now become so large as to tempt the cupidity of improper
and irresponsible persons. At the same time the largely
increased number of proprietors affords a greater opportunity
than heretofore for clandestine and revolutionary movements.

The Trustees, therefore, in obedience to the instructions
of the Proprietors, at their annual meeting, report recommend:

That a petition be presented to the Legislature for an
amendment to the act of incorporation to the following effect,
to wit:

Act of Amendment _

____ An Act in addition to an Act to
Incorporate the Proprietors of the Cemetery
of Mount Auburn. ____

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives,
in General Court assembled and by the authority of the same,
as follows:

Sect. 1. The authority conferred upon any cemetery corporation
organized under the General Statutes (Chap 28. Sec 2)
to take and hold so much real and personal estate as
may be necessary for the objects of its organization, be
and hereby is rested in the Proprietors of the Cemetery
of Mount Auburn.

Sec 2. No Member of the said corporation shall in his
individual right be entitled to more than one vote.