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Trustees. Feb'y 12^t, 1873.

Contracts for perpet. Rep with G. of Lots 409 1872 & 3467.

late of Sarah E. Cazenove, deceased, for Six hundred dollars; of Lot N^o 1872 on Spruce Avenue, belonging to Dexter Roby for Five hundred and twenty-five dollars; and of Lot N^o 3467 on Myrtle Path, belonging to Hacket Derby, M.D. for Four hundred and fifty dollars; it was

Voted, – that the contracts aforesaid be severally concurred in by this Board

Upon the petitions of the parties in interest representatives were designated for lots as follows, viz:

1663 Arthur N. Whiting of Watertown, Son of Nath^l Whiting, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Sixteen hundred & sixty=three.

3102 Charles Darrow of Boston, Son of Charles S. Darrow, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Thirty=one hundred and two.

Accounts &c at the Cemetery. Com. to cons. what changes in mode of keeping may be desirable, &c.

On motion by M^r Turner it was

Voted, – that the President of this Board and the Committee on Finance be instructed to consider and report what changes, if any, are desirable in the method and system of books and accounts at the Cemetery; and also what clerical force is necessary in said department.

Voted, – that when this meeting adjourns it adjourns to meet at this place on Wednesday, the 26 inst., at Four P.M.

Voted, – that this meeting be adjourned.

Sam^l Batchelder Jr., Secretary.

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Huickley Land Sale

The Committee on Finance reported the sale for $60000 of the "Huickley" Land on Beacon St. Newton Held jointly with Mr Harry S. Shaw

Issuance authority to made deed.

and it was Voted: That the Treasurer, with the written approval of the President and one of the members of the Committee on Finance, be and he hereby is authorized and empowered in the name and on behalf of the corporation, in Trust for its Repair Fund, to seal with the corporate seal, execute, acknowledge and deliver a quitclaim deed of the interest of the corporation in a certain parcel of land in Newton, Middlesex County, containing 411.260 square feet, on the northerly side of Beacon Street, adjoining land of the City of Boston occupied for the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, owned in [?] with Harry S. Shaw. Being the same premises mortgaged by Sylvester B. Huickley by two deeds, each dated October 23. 1895, the due given to the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, in trust for its Repair Fund, the other given to said Henry S. Shaw, both recorded with Middlesex South Disctrict Deeds, in Book 2409. Pages 268 and 271 respectively. and