Mount Auburn Cemetery

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The subscribers, being Proprietors of lots in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, hereby signify their assent to the Act of the Legislature passed the thirty first day of March AD. eighteen hundred & thirty five, entitled an Act to incorporated the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn.— Dated April 21 1835.

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called at the Treas^r & paid $630 for the lot last reported, but nothing was said about lot 3808. In your report of the last, no reference is made to the former.

Please send in report as to perpetual care of lots 358 & 359 on Narcissus Path. W^m W. + H.B. Stone. -

Also of lot 2144 Elder P. - John Woods - A fund of $300, with its accumulations amounting to $357.04 has been paid in to the Treas^r and it is important to know how much of it must go to present repair of the lot, & how much into the fund for repair.

On lot 454 - Isaiah Atkins - you stated that the regrading & painting would cost $36. Please have it done at once as the Ex^ors are ready to pay the $475 required - besides the $36. - I think I gave the order for this last week - but wish to make sure.

Very Respy yours

A. J. Coolidge

P.S. ? A.G. Stimson's bill for cutting down trees -

16 Pemberton Square

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Geo. W^m Bond Esq

Dear Sir: -

Please notify the parties in interest, for me, that the Corporation will contract to guarantee the perpetual care of lots numbered 358 & 359 in the Cemetery, belonging to W^m W. Stone Esq + heir of H.B. Stone on payment of seven hundred dollars. - ($700.)

I could not find the address of Mr Parker, whose name you gave me, or I should have sent earlier notice. Learning from you that he is a neighbor of yours, be so kind as to inform him of the result of the Committee's consideration of the matter.

Very truly yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

16 Pemberton Square

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Mr A.L. Wood

Dear Sir,

The Treas^r of our Corporation has sent me a bill against you amounting to $187.75 which I am instructed to collect.

Presuming that you may prefer that such collection shall be without resort to legal process, you are respectfully requested to call at this office and pay the same. -

Respy, Your Ob^t Serv^t

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y & Atty.

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May 27 [18]69

Capt Winsor,

Dear Sir,

The following lots are all that have been taken for perpetual repair since June 1868. --

A.J. Coolidge

May 27^th [18]69

Capt. Winsor

Dear Sir,

I have just rec^d from Mr Chas. R. Messenger of Toledo Ohio, prop^r of lot 3469, the enclosed orders, with his draft to cover the amount -- $65.00 -- paid in advance, & he desires you to proceed to execute the orders forthwith. $50. for new grading & sodding -- $6. for care of lot & plants, & $9. to be "expended in a few suitable flowers, the selection of which I will leave to your Superintendent's taste."

He intends at some day to enclose the lot with curb, but thinks the expenditures here ordered will greatly improve his lot. --

Mr Joel Richards has just called in, & desires me to say

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