Trustees Records, Vol. 7, 1886 (page 384)

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[Alterations Receiving Tomb Appropriation] voted
be granted.

Storage House for Half-hardy Plants, &c
The President then gave notice that at the next meeting
of the Board he should ask for an appropriation not ex-
ceeding Four Thousand dollars to be used for the erection
of a storage house for half hardy plants and a small
greenhouse for the propogation of trees and shrubs.

Henry H. Fay appears in support of Request
Pursuant to the vote passed at the meeting of January
9, Mr Henry H. Fay appeared before the Board and
presented arguments in support of his request that sepa-
rate accounts be kept with the several proprietors of
Lots under perpetual care, and that any surplus of
annual income be applied to the care and restoration
of the Monuments and Headstones on said Lots.

After hearing Mr. Fay's remarks, the President re-
plied that there were in the minds of the Board three
definite and specific reasons why his request should
not be granted: first, that it was a serious question
whether the corporation wished to bind itself to keep
separate ledger accounts with Lot owners perpetually[;]
second, that for two generations there has been inserted
in the contracts for the care of Lots a provision that
any surplus of income shall be expended for the general
purposes of the Cemetery; and, third, that as a charge of
Fifteen dollars is made for the care of a Headstone
upon the assumption that it will last for about eighty
years, the result of the adoption of the plan proposed
by Mr. Fay would be that many Lot owners would decide to