Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Trustees. April 9^t, 1873.

Subject recommitted with instructions

of the Board, – it was, on motion by M^r Snow,

Voted, – that the subject be re=committed to the Committee on Interments, with full powers to take such action in the premises as they may deem expedient; reporting their action to this Board with a statement of the facts on which it is based.

Monthly Statement of Sales of Lots accepted and placed on file.

A statement of the sales of Lots effected by the Superintendent from March 12, 1873 to date, so far as approved by the Committee on Lots having been submitted and read by the Secretary, it was

Voted, – that said statement be accepted and placed on file.

Contract for perp. Rep. with G., of Lot 3391

The Secretary having stated that the Committee on Lots had recommended the Trustees to guaranty the perpetual repair of Lot N^o 3391 on Mistletoe Path represented by Miss Elizabeth A. Bowman, for the sum of Five hundred dollars, it was

Voted, – that the aforesaid contract be concurred in on the part of this Board.

Jonathan H. Cheney. Lot 829 App^t for rep.

A petition for the appointment of Franklin N. Thatcher of Boston, son=in=law of Jonathan H. Cheney, deceased, as representative of the Lot formerly owned by said Cheney (N^o 829), signed by Sarah M. Train and Eunice H. Thatcher ^^his daughters, and accompanied by a letter from M^r Charles R. Train stating that M^r J. Homer Cheney, the only son of the deceased wished to represent the Lot himself and declined to write in the petition aforesaid, having been laid before the Board by the Secretary, on motion of M^r Choate, it was

Voted, – that the Secretary be instructed to forward

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Trustees. September 23^d, 1873

Monthly statement of Sales of Lots accepted & placed on file.

A statement of the sales of Lots effected by the Superintendent from August 13^t to September 10^t, 1873, so far as approved by the Committee on Lots, having been submitted and read by the Secretary, it was

Voted, – that said statement be accepted and placed on file.

Upon the petitions of the parties in interest, representatives were designated for Lots as follows, viz;

38 Franklin N. Thatcher of Boston, son of Peter Thatcher, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Thirty-Eight.

452 David H. Hayden, M.D., of Boston, son of Susan A. B. Hayden, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Four hundred & fifty-two.

829 Eunice H. Thatcher of Boston, daughter of Jonathan H. Cheney, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Eight hundred & twenty-nine. [see Records ante, pp. 223, 233, 235]

1677 Rebecca Colby of Charlestown, widow of Samuel Colby deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Sixteen hundred and seventy-seven.

3166 Ellen Amee of Cambridge, sister-in-law of Josiah L. C. Amee, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Thirty-one hundred & sixty-six.

No other business being presented, it was

Voted, – that this meeting be dissolved.

Sam^l Batchelder Jr., Secretary.