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ANNUAL REPORT

TRUSTEES

OF THE

Cemetery of

TOGETHER WITH

OF THE ~

TREASURER AND SUPERINTENDENT.

JANUARY, 1869.

BOSTON: 1869.

J. H. EASTBURN’S PRESS.

TRUSTEES’ REPORT. " Aone the occurrences worthy of note in the last year’s history of Mount Auburn, is the purchase of two lots or pieces of land situated on the outside of the Cemetery, and separated from it by an intervening road. One of these, sometimes called the “Stone Meadow,” is situated on the easterly side of Coolidge Avenue, and has been bought of the heirs of Cornelius Stone, at the price of $1000 per acre, the lot containing over five acres and a half, and costing the Corporation $5,543.75. This lot, consisting in part of low or wet Iand, is to be used as a place of temporary deposit for stone, rubbish and buildmg materials, thereby releasing a more valuable portion of land now used for the same purposes within the Cemetery. It is possible that, at some future time, the engine house with its appurtenances may be removed in the same direction, with the same economical purpose. The other purchase is that of a part of an acre of land, with a dwelling house thereon, situated nearly opposite the front gate of the Cemetery, and bought of A. McDonald, for $4000. For various reasons, it was thought desirable that the Corporation should control this estate.

The work of reclaiming low lands in eligible situations has gone steadily forward. The entire hill on which the Superintendent’s house stood, thirteen years ago, has been

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levelled, and the earth used to fill up the meadow about Halcyon Lake, and also to restore the necessary grade where made lands had settled, as in some parts of the Lawn, and of the meadow adjoining Thistle Path. Considerable sums have been expended in completing the improvements in St. Paul’s lot, Central Avenue, and the bank north of the Chapel. As the expense of these necessary improvements within the Cemetery has.been shared by the Horticultural Society, an exact account of the sums expended for such purposes, has been rendered to them, and, with a view to prevent any future misapprehension, a new indenture of two parts has been signed and executed by the authorized agents of the two parties.

A decided progress has been made this winter in removing the superfluous trees and branches from the Cemetery. About one hundred and seventy-five cords of wood have already been piled for sale, and much more will be removed during the winter. A marked improvement is already obvious in the variety of the landscape, the extent of the prospect, and the admission of sunlight to the ground. The work of this removal is slow and laborious, owing to the necessity of taking down the trees piecemeal, to avoid danger to neighboring monuments and works of art.

A new boiler of increased size has been procured for the. steam engine, and, for its accommodation, an addition has been made to the engine-house, the whole at a cost of about eleven hundred dollars.

A lease having been taken by the Corporation, of rooms at No. 16 Pemberton Square, in Boston, for ten years, it was decided by the Trustees to place the offices of the Secretar “y and Treasurer in the same building. At this time, George

4 W. Bond, Esq., who had acceptably filled the office of Treasurer for twenty-six years, resigned that office, and the Trustees subsequently elected Austin J. Coolidge, Esq., to fill both offices of Secretary and Treasurer, a condensation of duties, which, it is hoped, will prove economical to the Corporation, and convenient to the proprietors.

By the Treasurer’s Report, it appears that the Permanent Fund, for the future support and preservation of the Cemetery, has increased to $89,818.13. The Repair Fund is now $49,836.24; and the estimated balance in cash and invested disposable property is $48,626.65, exclusive of the real estate owned by the Corporation outside of the Cemetery.

For the Trustees,

JACOB BIGELOW, President.

5 SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT To the Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery, GENTLEMEN ,—

In accordance with the requirements of the Trustees, I herewith transmit the Annual Report of the Superintendent, for the year ending December 31st, 1868, as per account of his department.

IMPROVEMENTS. Number of New Lots graded and bounded with Granite Posts, 61 Number of Old Lots improved by being newly graded and sodded, 195 Number of Old Lots bounded with Granite Posts, 12 Number of Lots enclosed with Granite, 81 Number of Iron Fences erected, 4 Number of Tombs built, 2 Number of Monuments erected, 38 Number of Linear feet of Gutters paved 744

INTERMENT RECORD. Total number of Interments as per last Report, 14,821 Number of Original Interments for year ending December 31, 1868, 446 Number of Removals from other Cemeteries, 105 Total number of Interments for the year, 551 Total number of Interments in Cemetery to date 15,372 Of the above, there were Deposits in Receiving Tomb. 46 Tnterments in Public Lots, 21

THE REMOVALS IN AND FROM THE CEMETERY WERE AS FOLLOWS: To the Receiving Tomb 1 To the Receiving Tomb Lot 0 To the Public Lots 7 To the Private Lots 75 From Cemetery 83 Total number of Removals 20 Total number of Removals 103

Respectfully submitted, DANIEL L. WINSOR, Superintendent of Mount Auburn Cemetery. Mount Auburn, December 31, 1868

6 TREASURER’S REPORT.

The Treasurer Reports the following Abstract of Recerets and EXPENDITURES for the Thirty-seventh year, 1868.

He has received of sundry parties : For Sales of Lots and Graves in Public Lots, $34,997.83 For Fees for Deeds and Transfers, and Sales of Catalogues and Plans, $767.87 Less moneys paid out by Secretary, 298.11 469.76 For Labor and Materials, 44,927.44 For Income from Investment and Rents, 4,192.28 From Massachusetts Horticultural Society, — For one-quarter part cost of filling and improving Lands, as follows : Garden Pond, - $4,050.29 Thistle Bog, 3,184.80 Building the Mound, 1,800.00 Mound Avenue, 207.40 St. Paul’s Public Lot, 4,456.44 One-quarter cost of Lots 567 and 592$3,424.73 For one-quarter cost of Lots 567 and 592, repurchased at $315.00, 78.75 For balance due on old account, 9.93 3,513.41 For Notes Receivable—Note and Mortgage on Real Estate in Boston, 4,000.00 $92,100.72 He has paid to sundry parties :— For balance due Treasurer at beginning of year, $1,394.16 For Labor and Materials :— Pay-Roll, $32,836.76 Bricks, 1,600.82 Lumber, 224.09 Slates, 888.49 Lime and Cement, 593.40 Granite and Block Stone, 920.82 Iron, 564.41 Lead, 268.09 Smith-work, 245.18 Mason-work 72.63 Amounts carried forward, $38,214.69 $1,394.16 $92,100.72

7 Amounts brought forward, $38,214.69 $1,394.16 $92,100.72 Tools, etc., 527.72 Paints and Oils, 345.31 Sods, 3,365.51 Teaming 478.68 Manure, 371.95 Grain and Meal, 1,064.45 Plants and Pots for Greenhouse and Cemetery, 813.84 One Horse, 350.00 Furnace for Chapel 514.01 Boiler for Engine 770.16 Sundries, 5,085.12 51,901.44 For Expenses,—Salaries : D.L. Winsor, Sup’t, bal. last year’s ac’t, $631.75 D.L. Winsor, Sup't Salary this year 2,526.00 Geo. Wm. Bond, Treas., Salary this year 416.67 A.J. Coolidge, Treas. Salary this year 583.33 A.J. Coolidge Sec'y Salary this year 1,350.00 F.R. Banker, Gatekeeper, Salary this year 650.00 James Derby, former Gatekeeper 68.83 6,221.60 Rent of Office $848.36 Taxes 374.79 Insurance 178.75 Office Furniture 214.00 Sundries 1,282.30 2,898.20 9.119.80 To the Mass. Horiculture Society, for its proportion of Sales 8,399.46 To the Mass. Hospital Life Ins. Co. for Permanent Fund 7,043.56 For five Shares Capital Stock in Shawmut National Bank 500.00 For the Stone Meadow, a little more than 5 1/2 acres 5,543.75 For the Wyeth Estate, purchase of A. McDonald 4,000.00 For United States 5-20 Coupon Bond 50.00 Balance in hands of Treasurer 4,138.66 $92.100.72 FUND FOR REPAIRS Balance in Treasurer's hands, as per last report $906.90 He has recieved For new and additonal endowments 5,840.97 For Income of Investments 3,667.28 For Notes Receivable 10,000.00 $20,415.15 He has paid for said account: For care and improvement of Lots $3,500.16 For Notes Receivable, secursd by Mortgage and Collateral 14,000.00 There remains in his hands 2,914.99 $20.415.15

8 The Property of the Corporation consists of :— The Cemetery, which has cost to date, $411,419.53 Statuary, 15,365.20 Superintendent’s House and Lot, 6,892.21 Stone Meadow, 5.543.75 Wyeth Estate, 4,000.00

AVAILABLE FUNDS. Stock in Shawmut National Bank, 20 Shares, - $2,000.00 Stock in Atlantic National Bank, 20 shares 2,000.00 Stock in Boston and Lowell Railroad, 4 Shares, 2,000.00 Stock in Fitchburg Railroad, 20 shares 2,000.00 United States 5-20 Bonds, $29,450.00, cost, 29,478.10 Notes Receivable, secured by Mortgage, 7,000.00 Cash in hands of the Treasurer, 4,148.55 47,625,65 $491,848.04

PERMANENT FUND.

Deposited with Mass. Hospital Life Ins. Co., as per last report, 77,979.26 Income of same for 1868, 4,795.31 Deposited in December, 1868, 7,043.56 89,818.13 REPAIR FUND. Notes Receivable, secured by Mortgage and Collateral, 13,000.00 30 Shares Atlas National Bank, cost, 2,970.00 15 Shares Boston and Albany Railroad, cost, 1,202.50 United States 5-20 Bonds, $29,300.00, cost, 29.748.75 Cash in hands of Treasurer, 2,914.99 49.836.24 Respectfully submitted, AUSTIN J. COOLIDGE, Treasurer Boston, January 26, 1869.

This certifies that I have examined the books and accounts of the Treasurer of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, for the year Eighteen Hundred and Sixty- eight, and have found them correctly kept and properly balanced, with satisfactory vouchers for all payments charged.

The Certificates of Stocks and other evidences of property were found in accordance with the statements of his accounts.

In the General Account, there appears to be a balance in the hands of the Treasurer of $4,148.55 ; and in the Fund for Repairs, of $2,914.99.

CHARLES C. LITTLE, Chairman of Finance Committee. Boston, January 26, 1869.

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

TRUSTEES

OF THE

Cemetry of Mount Auburn

TOGETHER WITH THE

REPORTS

OF THE

TREASURER AND SUPERINTENDENT.

JANUARY, 1870.

BOSTON: 1870.

BARKER, COTTER & CO., PRINTERS, 14 State Street

TRUSTEES’ REPORT.

At the Annual Meeting of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, holden in Boston, February 1, 1869, measures were taken to cause a petition to be presented to the Legislature of the Commonwealth asking for amendments in the Charter of this Corporation relating to the election of Trustees, and to certain other matters.

In pursuance of votes taken at different times by this Corporation, a petition has been duly presented to the Legislature, and an Act has been passed by them, of which a copy is here subjoined : —

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 :

Section 1. The authority conferred upon any cemetery corporation organized under the provisions of Section two of Chapter twenty-eight of the General Statutes, to take and hold so much real and personal estate as may be necessary for the objects of its organization, is hereby vested in the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn.

Sect. 2. No member of the said Corporation shall, in his individual right, be entitled to more than one vote at the meetings of said Corporation.

Sect. 3. The officers of the said Corporation shall consist of twelve Trustees, a Treasurer, Secretary, and such other officers as the Trustees may direct. The twelve persons who now constitute the Board of Trustees shall be divided by lot, or otherwise, as they themselves may determine, into six classes of two each; and the persons of the first class shall go out of office on the day of the next annual meeting; and the persons of the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth classes shall 20 out of office, respectively, on the day of each succeeding annual election in the years eighteen hundred seventy-one, eighteen hundred seventy-two, eighteen hundred seventy-three, eighteen hundred seventy-four, and eighteen hundred seventy-five ; and the two Trustees who shall be chosen at the annual meeting in the year eighteen hundred and seventy, and in each succeeding year, shall continue in office, respectively for the term of six years. In case of the death or resignation of any Trustee, the