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The large sectional plans of the Cemetery, contracted for with Messrs.
Shedd & Edson, are mostly completed and in the hands of the Secretary.
They represent, in a satisfactory manner, on a scale of twenty feet to the
inch, the lots, avenues and paths, and also indicate the exact locality of
the drains, pipes, and other subterranean constructions. ‘ Tn certain cases
great difficulty was experienced in determining the “boundaries of lots,
where the Proprietors had neglected to place permanent landmarks, or
had trusted to hedges or wooden stakes. It is earnestly requested that
such Proprietors will provide themselves with durable stone landmarks,
which can always be ordered from the Superintendent at a trifling cost.

It being considered necessary to the good appearance of the Cemetery,
that the larger buildings and ornamental works should be surrounded
with open areas, sufficient to enable them to be advantageously seen, the
Trustees, at their meeting, September 2, 1861, adopted the Report of a
Committee, providing “that the following described spaces within the
Cemetery be forever kept open, and that no interments be ever made,
nor buildings nor monuments of any description ‘be erected thereon.

1. The space near the front gate or entrance, bounded as follows:—
beginning at a point in the front fence, thirty feet west of the western
stone obelisk, thence running at right angles with said fence, in a southerly
direction, to the southerly side of Pine Avenue, being about fifty-
five feet ; thence easterly in a line parallel to said fence, until it intersects
a line drawn from a point in said fence thirty feet east of the eastern
stone obelisk, and at right angles therewith ; thence northerly by
the said line so drawn at right angles with said fence, to the said point
in said fence thirty feet east of the eastern stone obelisk ; and thence in
a straight line to the place of beginning.

2. A space or passageway twenty feet wide on the east, north, and
west sides of the Chapel; the said twenty feet to be measured from the
outer face of the stone buttresses..

3. All that space in front of the Chapel, bounded by Chapel, Pine,
and Cypress Avenues, and Peony Path, as now laid out.

4. The whole space adjacent to and surrounding the ‘lower, now en-
closed by the circular or oval part of Mountain Avenue.

5. All the space imcluded within the stone curb of Auburn Lake,
together with the avenues or paths surrounding and next adjacent to the
said curb ; also all land between said avenues or paths and said curb,
not exceeding thirty feet in width.