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the petition of the children & joint devisees of the late Rev. Dr. Tuckerman issued a ticket to Mrs Sarah C. Becker on the 18^th of November last. His action was approved, and it was also

Lot 222. Representative of.

Voted, that in accordance with the petition of the children and joint devisees of the late Joseph Tuckerman D.D. proprietor of lot no. 222 in the Cemetery, Mrs Sarah C. Becker of Cambridge, who is the nearest resident of the joint proprietors, be designated for the time being to represent said lot and vote at the meetings of this Corporation receiving a ticket of admission in that capacity until the further action of this board.

Lot 406. Perpetual Repair of.

In accordance with the request of Mr Levi Thaxter, the vote passed at the last meeting was amended so as to read thus.

Voted. That upon the application of Levi Thaxter of Watertown, this Corporation will contract to keep his lot no 406. in the Cemetery in perpetual repair upon the present payment to its Treasurer of the sum of four hundred dollars; it being understood that the said Thaxter has expressed the desire to keep said lot in repair duirng his own life, and that the liability of this Corporation therefor commences at the time of his death and that this Corporation is to be authorized by the contract to prohibit interments in said lot other than of the said Thaxter, himself, ^^{and the inmates of his family} and his children and grandchildren and the ^^immediate inmates of their several families.

and I am persuaded that the Committee will be satisfied that such is the fact, if they will take the opportunity to inquire into my duties and the method of performing them.

I am Very Resp.y Your Ob^t Serv^t

A.J. Coolidge

Apr. 25 [186]6

Jos. Tuckerman Esq

Dear Sir

Yours of 23^d is just at hand. I supposed I had sufficiently indicated in my note of 13^th inst that no record is made by our Corporation of any interest in any lot less than the entire ownership. This results from the provision of the charter that "lots are indivisible". The Corporation do not object to a man's owning a part of a lot, but there is no way to make such ownership appear upon our records. It results then that, unless all the separate interests of lot no. 496 are gathered up in you or someone else, and so the entire interest is recorded, the title of record must [ ? ]

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