2 Mount Auburn Cemetery Trustees Records

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Cemetery & the monuments & erections therein.

Voted To accept the above report & to adopt the regulations therein proposed

Perpetual repair of lots.

Voted That the Com^ee on Lots have power to contract with any proprietor to keep his lot in perpetual repair.

Removal of remains

Voted. That the President be a com^ee to report on the subject of adopting some measures to prevent the removal of remains from the Cemetery.

Strangers admitted.

Voted That the Trustees be [socially?] authorized to prevent strangers to enter the Cemetery with a carriage

Voted to adjourn A true record Attest B. R Curtis Sec^y.

Trustees Gate.

Pursuant to notice issued by the Secretary the Trustees of the Proprietors of the Cem^y. of Mount Auburn met at the office of the Secretary on Tuesday Sep^r 27^th at 4. o'clock P.M.

Present Bigelow, C.P. Curtis, B.R. Curtis Gould, Parker & Read

Voted. That the committee on lot viz Jacob Bigelow C.P. Curtis & Isaac Parker be empowered to contract with Octavious T. Rogers of Quincy on some other suitable person for the building of a granite gateway at Mount Auburn & to pay for the

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same continued _

Amount brot up	___	3,533.67.
Cost on 1st Suit	211.31.
" [Cost] " [on] 2d " [Suit]	218.21.	429.52
add. RD Smith Esqr bill (our Attorney)	___	200.00.
Total cost to Mt Aub Cem.	___	$4,163.19

The Committee understand from the referees that the Granite RWC are to deliver at Mount Auburn in good order and free of expense the urn scrolls and other pieces of granite which are now upon their premises at Quincy, and which have been manufactured by said Granite RWCo under the contracts referred to herein.

Upon the receipt of an obligation from the Granite RWCo to deliver said remaining granite, the Committee recommend the payment of the awards and costs, and also of the bill of RD Smith Esq^r.

___	Jacob Bigelow	}
(signed)	Otis Norcross	} Committee
___	J Ingersoll Bowditch	} "

Report accepted & adopted _

Voted. That the report be accepted and the recommendations adopted.

Com^ee appoint^d to report Plan of New Receiving Tomb

Upon motion by M^r Norcross.

Voted. That a Committee of three be appointed to consider and report a plan for a Receiving Tomb at Mount Auburn, with such estimates of the cost of same as

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Trustee's Annual Report.

the light and the general features of the landscape.

The gale of September 8 broke or blew down a considerable number of trees, but did little damage to fences and monuments. A large importation of ornamental flowering shrubs and small trees, ordered last year; has been safely planted in various parts of the Cemetery.

A reception house has been commenced on the Wyeth estate, opposite the front gate of Mount Auburn, for the accommodation and shelter of visitors, and with a cellar for the protection in winter of tender plants or trees.

A lawsuit, which has been pending for several years between this Corporation and the Granite Railway Company, at Quincy, has been settled by a reference, so that the remainder of the stone is to be delivered, and the Receiving Tomb, which was begun some years ago, may now be completed.

An amendment to Article II of the By-Laws was adopted January 11, 1870, as follows: The words, "The Trustees for the ensuing year shall be elected by ballot," shall be stricken out, and the following inserted in the same place, "The vacancies in the Board of Trustees caused by death, resignation, or by expiration of the term for which any Trustees were elected, shall be filled by ballot."

The following amendment to Article VII has also been passed: "He (the Superintendent) shall not receive from any proprietor, or contractor for work or materials, any commission or fees, or any compensation for any service rendered by him, except as hereinafter provided. The Superintendent shall be allowed to render special services in the laying

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Dec. 7, 1863 _

Petitions for the representation of lots were presented as follows; and persons named below, were severally designated: _

Representatives designated for Lots _

for ~~~

no 73,

Mary Furbush of Quincy, widow of Milo Furbush, late proprietor of lot No. 73, to represent said lot: _

355

W^m P. W. Dana, of New York City, son of Nancy Dana, late proprietor of lot No. 355 to represent said lot:

1657

Artemas White of Belmont, eldest son of Artemas White late proprietor of lot numbered 1657, to represent said lot: _

1812

Sarah A. Coolidge of Charlestown, daughter of Sarah A. Trafton, deceased, late proprietor of lot No. 1812 to represent said lot: _

2829

Thomas S. Leland of Somerville, only son of Thomas J. Leland, deceased, late proprietor of lot numbered 2829, to represent said lot: _

3306 _

Edward O. Nichols, of Charlestown, brother and heir at law of Gilbert Nichols, deceased by whose heirs at law lot numbered 3306 was purchased, to represent said lot.

Adjourned Attest. Austin J. Coolidge, Sec.y

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Voted that ^$7000 be appropriated for that purpose.

Representatives, Lots Nos. Voted _ That Representatives be designated for Lots as follows: _

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66	√	Lillie C. Bowditch	Weymouth	Daughter
196	√	Faoline E. Stearns	Nashville, T	Grand-dau.
374	√	Abbie W. Hodges	Medford	Daughter
1075	√	Florence D. Eustis	Springfield	Daughter
1196	√	Olive L. Standish	Boston	Widow
1281	√	Robert W. Pratt	Boston	Son
1435	√	Samuel C. Bigelow	San Francisco	Son
1547	√	Samuel W. Clifford	Boston	Son
2157	√	Seth C. Chandler	Cambridge	Son
2167	√	Louis D. Starbird	Malden	Son
2209	√	Susan C. Warren	Boston	Widow.
2243	√	Daniel S. Pratt	Wellesley Hills	Son
2563	√	S. Otis Bartlett	Boston	Son
2694	√	Lydia A. Easter	Boston	Daughter
2988	√	Nellie E. Halford	Stoneham	Daughter
3030	√	Joseph T. Brown	Boston	Son
3384	√	E.A. Frances Fitch	Boston	Widow
4298	√	Alonzo Priest	Quincy	Son
4837	√	Catherine E. Draper	W. Somerville	Daughter
4918	√	Louisa D. Bullard	Cambridge	Daughter

Contracts Perpetual Care. The Committee on Lots recommended the following Contracts for perpetual care, all of which were approved by the Board: _