1854 Trustees Meeting Minutes, Volume 2, 1831.005.002

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Trustees March 19. 1855.

The Trustees, met March 19. 1855. agreeable to adjournment at noon.

Present Messrs Bangs Bigelow, Crockett, Curtis Little, Read, and Tisdale.

Sylvan Path.

The record of the last meeting was read. The Secretary stated that he had no means of completing the record as to Sylvan Path, so far as its location is concerned, and that he had left a blank for the de scription of its location. With this reservation the record of the last meeting was approved

Report on vacancies

Mr Bangs presented the following report of a committee appointed at the last meeting, which report was subsequently accepted and ordered to be entered at length on the record.

Report.

The undersigned committee appointed by the Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery, at their first meeting for the current year "to report at an ad"journed meeting, on any vacancies now existing "in the offices of this Corporation, and a general "plan of defining the duties of the present and future "officers "

also "to consider the expediency of establishing "a standing committee of three on grounds avenues "and paths, and to define the duties and powers "of such committee"

have attended to the duty assigned them and submit the following report.

Assistant Superintendent.

First. They recommend that Jonathan Mann be appointed to fill the office of assistant superintendend-

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ent of Mount Auburn with a salary of six hundred dollars, whose duty it shall be, under the superin tendent, to have the immediate charge of the workmen, and see that they faithfully perform the work assigned them, and to do such other duties as the Trustees, through their Superintendent shall direct.

Secretary change - - in -

Second. Notwithstanding the faithful and efficient services rendered to the Corporation for a series of years by the present-incumbent, circumstances occurred at the late annual meetings, much to the regret of your committee, which render it manifest that it is the expectation of a large portion of the proprietors, that the office of the Secretary should be filled by another person for the ensuing year, therefore in order to produce harmony and the best interests of the Corporation your committee recommend that this office be filled by the election of ________ _______.

Committee on Grounds. &c.

Third. Your committee consider consider it important and necessary that there be annually appointed a standing committee of three on grounds, avenues and paths, whose duty it shall be to advise and consult with the superintendent in the care of the grounds avenues and paths, to make such suggestions in regard to alterations and improvements as they may deem expedient to the proper officers, who shall under their supervision cause the same to be executed.

It is expected however, that in operations involving considerable expense the board of

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Trustees shall be consulted. ______

The Superintendent shall have the management and control of the grounds generally, shall make purchases and sales required in the prosecution of the business intrusted to him, and as such other businesses as the Trustees shall direct.

( Signed )
___	Isaiah Bangs.	}
___	James Read.	}	Committee.
___	Charles C. Little	}

Messrs Gould and Kuhn now joined the meeting.

Secretary chosen.

The Trustees proceeded to ballot for a Secretary for the ensuing year and Austin J. Coolidge was elected.

Assistant Superintendent.

Jonathan Mann of Newton was elected assistant superintendent under the foregoing report.

Income and Expenditures

The President. Dr Bigelow then read at some length a sketch or scheme in relation to the future prospects & income of the corporation, and of proposed operations and expenditures at the Cemetery with remarks upon the necessity of economy and the establishment of a permanent fund for the perpetual preservation of the lots and grounds.

St'd'g Com^ee on Grounds.

The Trustees then proceeded to ballot for a standing Committee on grounds avenues and paths

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and Messrs Bigelow Tisdale and Bangs were elected.

Shrubs.

Dr Bigelow was reappointed a committee of one on the introduction of flowering shrubs, with power to use the sum of three hundred dollars or so much of that sum as remained from the appropriation of last year, for that purpose.

Trees

Messrs Bigelow Bangs and Gould were reappointed on the committee on trees. with the same powers as last-year.

Chapel.

Messrs Bigelow Little and Tisdale were appointed a committee on the rebuilding of the Chapel, with the same powers as the committee of the last-year.

Stone Farm use of.

The committee on the Stone Farm, appointed at the last meeting, reported that the dwelling house with a privilege in the barn if desired be advertised to be let for one or more years, and that the remain der of the land and barn can be profitably improved by the Corporation. The Committee further suggest that efficient measures be adopted for preparing the grounds and transplanting trees early in this spring on the avenues and paths suggested on Mr Wadsworth's new plan. -- Accepted and referred to the committee on grounds &c. with full powers.

E. W. Williams legacy.

The Secretary stated that in pursuance of the votes of the Trustees during the past year, he had collected one thousand dollars from the Executor of Mrs Elisabeth

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W. Williams on account of her legacy of two thousand dollars to the Corporation, and also interest on one thousand dollars from the 26^th of March 1853 to March 26^th 1855 and asked instructions as to further collections. Thereupon it was

Voted. That, whereas the Executor of Mrs Elisabeth W. Williams has paid to this Corporation the sum of one thousand dollars and in terest from March 26^th 1853 to March 26^th 1855, this corporation will and do now accept that sum in full of all claims under the bequest to this Corporation in said testatrix's will; and that this Corporation do now accept the devise of her lot numbered 1697 in the Cemetery and agree that the same shall be kept forever and maintained in good order and condition, and subject to the restrictions as to burials in said devise contained

Expenses.

Voted. That the subject of reducing the expenses of the Corporation be referred to the committee on grounds & with instructions to report on the same at a future meeting of the trustees.

Lot 692 Representative of.

Voted. That wereas the heirs of Lois Mason, late proprietor of lot no 692, deceased intestate, have applied to the Trustees so to do, this Board do now in accordance with such application assignate her daughter, Mrs Anne L. Fiske of Cam bridge, and said Anne's husband Nathan Fiske in her right, to represent said lot for the time