Mount Auburn Cemetery

Nov. 20 [186]5

Chas. R. Lowell Esq

Dear Sir,

We are finishing up a new lithographic plan of the Cemetery on a large scale, and, in order to represent lot nos. 323 & 1443 thereon, shall be compelled to put in the granite boundary posts at the expense of the parties interested: and I have requested the Superintendent to have this done.

As I understood you were contemplating some further permanent improvement, I had hoped you would have been in season to save this trouble. However the expense will not be material, and you will be allowed the value of the posts to the Corporation when you are ready to erect a fence.

Respectfully yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

Boston, Nov. 20. 1865

J.H. Shedd Esq

Dear Sir,

I should like to have Mr Perkins survey & give in feet the areas of several pieces of ground entered in the catalogue as "Monuments" to this or that individual --

Such are

180 --	Central Square	to	Hannah Adams
181 --	Central Ave	"	Sparzheim
433 --	Narcissus P.	"	C. Durgin
680 --	Yarrow P.	"	Thos. G. Fessenden
724	Walnut Av.	"	Noah Worcester
899	Central Av.	"	Officers Explor. Exped.

I should like just to have you or he make out with me a list of the avenues & paths as upon the plan.

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge

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as a gratuity, & that Mr. Cook be requested to notify him of the same. --

March 10.1832.

March 10. 1832. At a meeting of the Garden & Cemetery Com. held at D^r. Bigelows, present. Mess. Gould, Bond, Brimmer, Bigelow, & Pratt.

Voted, that the surveying Committee have authority to grant the petition of Mess. Stone & Bird, also, that of Mess. Winship of Brighton, & to consider the petition of Mr. Otis Pettee of Newton.

Miss Adams.

Voted, that the Com^e of Surveys appropriate a portion of land for the purpose of depositing the remains of Miss Hannah Adams.

Gardener

Voted, that a Committee be appointed to confer with members of the Horticultural Society in regard to the selection of a suitable permit for Gardener, for the establishment at Mount Auburn. Voted, that a Committee of three be appointed, Z. Cook Jr} B. A. Gould} were chosen -- G W. Pratt}

G.W. Pratt. Secy

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Lots to be sold

Voted that the Treasurer, Mr Bond, advertize a sale of lots on the grounds, on some day in May or June next as he may deem best—

Tickets &c.

Voted that Mr Bond be a Committee to provide Tickets for the Proprietors— a bell for the Gate— and a sign to be placed within the gateway con-- taining the regulations for visitors in carriages

Charles P. Curtis Sec^y

Sept 2. 1833

At a meeting of the Garden & Cemetery Comm^ee held September 2 1833, present, Judge Story, Mr. Bond, D^r Bigelow, Mr Cook and Mr Gould— it was

Workmen employed

Voted that all persons employed to work on the grounds at M^t Auburn, either in The Garden or Cemetery, shall be employed by and be responsible accountable to the Superintendant—

Gates to be shut

Voted that all the Gates leading into the Garden or Cemetery shall be under the control of the Superintendant, and he shall see that they are locked every night and the keys deposited in his house—

No lots to be in Central Square

Voted that no lots be laid out in Central Square or on the summit of any of the Hills, without the special order of the Committee

Treasurer's Accounts

The Treasurer's Accounts, accompanied by the report of Mr Gould, who had been appointed to audit them, were approved and passed—

Monument [to] Miss Adams

Voted that the Treasurer pay thirty five dollars for the iron fence round the Monument erected to the memory

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of Miss Hannah Adams, the same being the property of the Corporation—

Charles P. Curtis Sec^y

Oct. 1833

At a meeting of the Garden & Cemetery Committee held on ____ October 1833, present, D^r Bigelow, Mes^rs Cook, ^^{Joseph P.} Bradlee, Charles Brown, and Bond,

Shrubs etc.

it was voted that D^r Bigelow be a Committee to direct the Gardener to procure & set out such shrubs & trees as he may think proper, not exceeding the expense of $100—

Life Members—

Voted that all life members of the Society who have paid twenty dollars to the Treasurer to constitute them such, shall have the right to take lots in the Cemetery on the same terms as other purchasers, and the said payments of $20 shall be deducted from the purchase money— provided however that the balance of such purchase money be paid to the Treasurer of the Committee within six months from 1^st December—

Voted that the Secretary give notice of the prece-- ding vote to each life member—

Trespass

Voted that Judge Story, M^r Curtis & M^r Bond be a Committee to inquire into the Trespass committed on M^r S. G. Williams' lot, & take such measures as they deem expedient—

Tombs.

Voted that the same persons be a Committee to prepare a circular letter to be sent to each pro-