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Upon nomination by the Chair. Messrs Curtis, Nazro and Sleeper were appointed such Committee.

Annual Meeting _

Voted that the Secretary be authorized to procure a place for the Annual Meeting.

The meeting was then adjourned. Attest Austin J. Coolidge Secretary.

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Trustees Feby. 7. 1859.

The regular monthly meeting of the Trustees was held at the usual place on Monday, February seventh, 1859, at 10 o'clock a.m. _

There were present, the President, Messrs Cheever, Crocker, Curtis, Gould, Little, Nazro, Read and Sleeper.

"The Committee to whom was referred the vote of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, at their last Annual Meeting on the subject of the care of Lots,

Report

Report on Vote of Prop^s at last Annual Meeting _

That the Trustees feel bound to receive with respectful attention all suggestions coming from the Proprietors; but that it is impossible for them to keep in proper order an aggregate of nearly three thousand private lots, which number is constantly increasing; and at the same time to pay the necessary expenses of the Cemetery, without consuming more than their whole income, and frustrating the purposes of the permanent fund, which they have covenanted with their new proprietors to increase and keep inviolate. Besides which, the Committee have doubts whether

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the Trustees would have any right to enter and repair, or otherwise alter, the lots of proprietors, without the consent and specific instructions of each proprietor to that effect.

___	{Charles P. Curtis
(signed)	{ Jacob Bigelow
___	{ B. A. Gould

The foregoing report was read and it was Voted unanimously that the same be accepted & filed. _

Supply of Water _

Mr Curtis for the Special Committee chosen in February last respecting obtaining a supply of water for Mount Auburn from the Cambridge Water Works, stated that the Committee are not yet prepared to make any report, and he moved, and it was

Voted that the subject be referred to the next board of Trustees.

Harvard College Lots _

The Committee to whom was referred the memorial of Mr Lawrence, Treasurer of Harvard College, respecting the boundaries of the lot in the Cemetery belonging to that Corporation _ with full power _

Reported that they had arranged with the Treasurer of the College that said lot should be surveyed, and that it should be optional with him whether the monuments now said to encroach upon the lands of this Corporation should be removed within the present bounds, or whether sufficient land should be exchanged from another part

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Upon motion of Mr William Sturgis, it was voted that a committee of five gentlemen, to the appointed by the chair, be chosen to retire and report twelve persons to be elected as Trustees for the ensuing year.

The chair appointed

___	{Wm Sturgis
___	{George Bates
Messrs	{Jeffrey Richardson
___	{Geo. W. Crockett
___	{Saml E. Guild

The Committee subsequently reported the following list of candidates for Trustees.

William T. Andrews Isaiah Bangs Jacob Bigelow James Cheever Uriel Crocker Charles P. Curtis Benj. A. Gould Charles C. Little Charles G. Nazro James Read Jacob Sleeper Edward S. Tobey

On motion of Thos. J. Lee Esq.

Voted that a Committee of three be appointed by the chair to receive, assort and count the votes for trustees.

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And Messrs	{T.J. Lee
___	{F.U. Tracy
___	{Geo. C. Richardson

were so appointed. _

The Committee subsequently presented their report as follows:

Whole number of votes 409

___	William T. Andrews	had	409
___	Isaiah Bangs	" [had]	409
___	Jacob Bigelow	" [had]	409
___	James Cheever	" [had]	409
___	Uriel Crocker	" [had]	408
___	Charles P. Curtis	" [had]	409
___	Benjamin A. Gould	" [had]	409
___	Charles C. Little	" [had]	408
___	Charles G. Nazro	" [had]	409
___	James Read	" [had]	409
___	Jacob Sleeper	" [had]	409
___	Edward S. Tobey	" [had]	409.

And these gentlemen were declared the chosen trustees for the ensuing year. The meeting was then adjourned without day.

Attest Austin J. Coolidge ,, Secretary.

The Committee apointed to collect, sort and count the votes for Trustees respectfully

Report

That they have attended to that duty and find that the whole number of votes was 849

Necessary for a chair	425
Isaiah Bangs has	680
Jacob Bigelow "	675
James Cheever "	678
Uriel Crocker "	846
Charles P. Curtis "	676
Benjamin A. Gould "	678
William R. Lawrence "	897
Charles C. Little "	848
Henry S. McKean "	849
James Read "	848
Charles G. Nazro "	844