1854 Trustees Meeting Minutes, Volume 2, 1831.005.002

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Treas^rs Report

Schedule of Property in the hands of the Treasurer belonging to the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn

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15 Shares	Shawmut Bank	par	1500.	market value	1560
6 " [Shares]	Boston & Lowell Rail	" [par]	3000	" [market] " [value]	2280
40 " [Shares]	Boston & Providence " [Rail]	" [par]	4000	" [market] " [value]	3200
20 Shs	Atlantic Bank	" [par]	2000	" [market] " [value]	2000
30 " [Shs]	Western Railroad	" [par]	3000	" [market] " [value]	3000
24 " [Shs]	Boston & Worcester " [Railroad]	" [par]	2400	" [market] " [value]	2160
___	City of Boston Scrip	" [par]	3000	" [market] " [value]	3000
20 " [Shs]	Fitchburg Railroad	" [par]	2000	" [market] " [value]	1640
___	Cash	___	173.89	___	173.89
___	Deposit with Mass. Hosp. Life Ins. Co.	___	3510	" [market] " [value]	3510
___	___	___	24,583.89	___	22,543.89

He has also in his hands belonging to the Fund for Repairs

15 Shares	Atlas Bank	cost	1470
8 " [Shares]	Fitchburg Railroad	" [cost]	841
10 " [Shares]	Western " [Railroad]	___	1,002.50
___	City of Boston Scrip for $2350	" [cost]	2,357.05
___	Massachusetts 5% " [Scrip] " [for] 1000	" [cost]	959.73
___	Note of S. H. Oliver endorsed by
___	S.P. Blake and secured by Mortgage	___	4,000. =	10,630.28

Fund consists of City Scrip for $630 cost	651.95
Balance due from Corporation	328.73=	980.68

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The Property of the Corporation independent of the Cemetery which has cost up to this date $250,944.13

Consists of

___	Tomb under Park Street Church	___	200
15 Shares	Shawmut Bank	par	1500	value	1560
6 " [Shares]	Boston & Lowell Raild	" [par]	3000	" [value]	2280
40 " [Shares]	Boston & Providence " [Raild]	" [par]	4000	" [value]	3200
___	Lot no. 567	___	100
20 " [Shares]	Atlantic Bank	" [par]	2000
30 " [Shares]	Western Railroad	" [par]	3000
24 " [Shares]	Boston & Worcester " [Railroad]	" [par]	2400	" [value]	2160
___	City of Boston Scrip	___	3000
20 " [Shares]	Fitchburg Railroad	___	2000	" [value]	1640
___	Superintendent's House lot	___	6,892.21
___	Stone Farm	___	27,289.75
___	Cash	___	173.89 =	___	___	$55,555.85

The debts of the Corporation including notes
payable for the Stone Farm $11,588 _ are	12,160 .93
___	$43,394.92

being an increase over last year of	5,391.29
To which may be added the sum depos-	___
ited with Mass. Hosp. Life Ins. Co. as	___
property of the Corporation, but devoted	___
to special trust	3,510
Increased market value of stocks	1,075	$9,976.29
Showing an improvement in the property	___	___
of the Corporation for the past year of the above sum	___	___	$9,976.29

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Trial Balance of the Properties of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn 1857

___	Tomb under Park Street Church	200. _	12	Public Lot	5,226
35	Stock in Shawmut Bank	1500._	27	Notes Payable	11,588. _
27	" [Stock] " [in] Bost. & Lowell Rail	3000. _	50	A. J. Coolidge Secretary	197.24
37	" [Stock] " [in] Bost. & Prov. " [Rail]	4000. _	53	Proprietors Fund	300,335.75
38	Lot No. 567	100. _	56	R. Howe	4,566. _
42	" [Stock] " [in] Atlantic Bank	2,000. _
	" [Stock] " [in] Western Rail	3000. _	62	Story Statue	328.73
46	Statuary a/cs	7,712. _
55	" [Stock] " [in] Bost. & Worc. Raild	2,400	84	Jona. Mann. Supt.	130
	City of Bost. Scrip	2000
68	Superintendent's House	6,892.91
74	Cemetery . .	250,944.13
76	" [Stock] " [in] Fitchburg Raild	2000. _
80	Cash - - - -	173.89
82	Stone Farm	27,289.75
89	Permanent Repairs Fund	3,510. _
___	___	$317,722.68	___	___	$317,722.68

Geo W^m Bond, Treas^r

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This certifies that we have examined the books and accounts of the Treasurer of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, for the year ending Decem^r 31, 1857, 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 in his accounts.

In the Fund for Repairs there appears to be due him one hundred & twenty four 88/100 dollars, and to be in his hands belonging to the general accounts of the Corporation one hundred & seventy three 89/100 dollars.

Boston Feby. 1, 1858.

(signed	{Charles C. Little	} Finance
___	{Chas G. Nazro	} Committees

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Superintendent's Account

Mount Auburn Cemetery December 31, 1857.

Account of this Department for year ending Dec^r 31, 1857.

Total amt of cash recd for labor & materials	___
from proprietors and others	31,188.76
Recd of Geo Wm Bond, Treasr	4,003.26=	35,192.02

Total Amt of disbursements for labor &	___
materials	34,040.32
Paid Geo W. Bond Treasr cash on a/c	1,151.70 =	35,192.02

There are bills due from proprietors to the Corpor-	___
ation for labor and materials in 1856-7 of about	3,600
There are also sundry bills against the Corpn for granite work^&c say	1,500
Balce due Corporation		$2,100. _

There have been collected of the above bills	___
(3,600) up to Jany 28/58 - about	2,000. _

Number of new lots graded & bounded with posts during year	88 _
" [Number] " [of] old lots improved by being newly graded & sodded	79.
" [Number] " [of] monuments erected	38
" [Number] " [of] iron fences " [erected]	87
" [Number] " [of] Evergreen Hedges planted	4
" [Number] " [of] Tombs built	3
" [Number] " [of] interments during the year	551

Whole	" [Number] " [of] interments to date	8,443. _
___	" [Number] " [of] interments in Public Lots	52
___	" [Number] " [of] deposits in Receiving Tomb	45

(signed) Jon^a Mann, Sup^t

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Trustees Records ~ 1858 ~

Trustees _ Feby. 8. 1858

In accordance with the by-law requiring the Secretary to call the first meeting of the Trustees written fourteen days after the annual meeting, and notices having been issued for such meeting, the Trustees met at the office of the Secretary, on Monday, February 8^th, 1858 at 10 o'clock am.

There were present Messrs Bangs, Bigelow, Cheever, Curtis, Gould, Nazro, Read, Sleeper and Tobey ; and Mr Crocker subsequently appears. _ 10 members

Dr Bigelow took the Chair, and the record of the Annual meeting was read. ~

The chair announced the first business to be the election of officers and committees for the ensuing year. _

The Trustees then proceeded to ballot for officers and Committees, each of which received eight votes the whole number cast, and they are as follows: _

Officers Chosen _

President	Jacob Bigelow
Secretary	Austin J. Coolidge
Treasurer	George Wm Bond

Com^ees Chosen

Committee on	} Messrs	Little
Finance	}	Nazro

[text inscribed on the left margin of the page] Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Suffolk ss. February 8, 1858. They personally appeared the within named Austin J. Coolidge and made oath that he would faithfully perform the duties of Secretary of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn for the ensuing year:

Before me C.P. Curtis Justice of the Peace [end of text inscribed on the left margin of the page]