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FIFTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT.

The fifty-eighth annual report, including the reports of the Super-
intendent and Treasurer, is herewith submitted.

The condition of the various funds is as follows: —

The Repair fund has gained $37,547.09 during the year, and
amounts to $600,953.18.

The Permanent fund shows gain of $8,875.28, and is now
$286,881.86.

The General fund has increased $7,502.91, and amounts to
$68,380.89.

Among the items of “other property of the corporation” enumer-
ated on page 11 of this report the Coolidge lot appears for the first
time. This is a lot of about six acres in the rear of the cemetery
in Watertown, running through to Grove street. The Trustees
thought best to accept a favorable offer for the purchase of this land.
It may be annexed to the cemetery for interment purposes by con-
sent of the town of Watertown, but it was not purchased with that
intention. It is now held like other property outside the cemetery
limits, and the small necessary expense of maintaining it is for the
present more than compensated by the sods and other material for
the uses of the corporation thus secured. It may prove in the
future, with the growth of the city of Cambridge now constantly
pressing upon our lands, a very desirable acquisition.

The Treasurer’s account shows an item of eighteen hundred dol-
lars from the city of Cambridge for the widening of Brattle street.
This widening took a strip about ten feet in width, in all three
thousand and six square feet, from our lots on Brattle street,