Mount Auburn Cemetery

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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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Sec'y instructed to communicate to M^r Train the Prov. of the charter.

to M^r Train a copy of the provisions of the Act of 1835, in reference to the subject of the representation of Lots, wherein it is provided, (Sect. 8), that "in making such designation the Trustees shall as far as they conveniently may, give the preference to males over females, and to proximity of blood and priority of age, having due regard, however, to proximity of residence."

The following representative was designated: –

1370 Henry Nichols of Boston, Son of Eleazer Nichols, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Thirteen hundred and seventy.

Voted, – that this meeting be dissolved.

Sam^l Batchelder Jr., Secretary.

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Trustees. May 14^t, 1873.

May 14^t, 1873.

A monthly meeting of the Trustees was held on Wednesday, May 14^t, 1873, at Four o'clock, P.M.

Present, Messrs. J.T. Bradlee, N.J. Bradlee, ^^Lawrence, Brewer, Choate, Perkins, Pickering, Snow and Turner.

The record of the last meeting was read & approved.

Fire-Extinguishers reported unnecessary

Reports of Committees were made as follows, viz: –

The Committee on Grounds to whom was referred the communication of the late Superintendent in regard to the purchase of Fire=Extinguishers reported that having conferred with the Superintendent they were of opinion that no action is necessary upon the said communication.

Ground near Central &c. Ave^s; work on [ordered done]

The same Committee to whom was referred the communication of the late Superintendent in reference to certain work to be done on a parcel of ground situated between

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Jonathan H. Cheney. Lot 829. representation of, action respecting.

received from Hon. Chas. R. Train in response to the communication addressed to him by the Secretary in compliance with the vote adopted at the last meeting of the Board; [p. 215]

After discussion it was

Voted, – that the Secretary be instructed to request M^r J. Homer Cheney, if desirous of appointment as representative of Lot 829, lately owned by his deceased father, to present a petition therefor to the Trustees.

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

A statement of the sales of Lots from April 9^t, 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.

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

1436 Alanson Bigelow of Boston, Son-in-law & Ex^or of Isaiah Bangs deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Fourteen hundred & thirty=six.

1717 Abigail H. Pratt, of Boston, Widow of George Pratt deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Seventeen hundred & seventeen.

2046 Nathan L. Green, of Boston, Son of Samuel S. Green deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Two thousand and forty=six.

2368 Catherine A. Wheeler of Cambridge, Widow of Lewis Wheeler, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Twenty-three hundred & sixty=eight.