Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Iron Fence

Dr Bigelow from the Committee on lots, reported that the iron fence contemplated in the order of this Board passed March 19^th 1847 had been com- pleted and paid for, but that owing to certain de lays and disappointments the ________, or wood- en fence, was not done.

J.J. Dixwell chosen Trustee

John J. Dixwell Esqr. was elected by ballot a Trustee to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Hon. Martin Brimmer, the Hon Theodore Lyman heretofore elected having declined.

The Treasurer presented his annual report which was accepted and ordered to be recorded and laid before the Proprietors at their annual meeting on Monday next.

Adjourned. A true record. Attest Isaac Parker Secretary pro tem. A true record ex relatione Isaac Parker Attest Henry M. Parker Secretary.

Proprietors 1848

Mount Auburn Cemetery. The annual meeting of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, will be held at the office of the subscriber, in Boston, at No 27 State Street, on Monday the seventh day of February, 1848, at 4 o'clock P.M. to choose Trus- tees for the ensuing year, to hear the report of the Treasurer, and to act on any other business which may legally come before the said meeting.

Henry M. Parker. Secretary. January 25.

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Pursuant to the foregoing notice which was published in The Boston Daily Advertiser, a newspaper printed in the City of Boston, more than seven days in succession before the said time of meeting (and which notice was also published in other newspapers in said Boston) the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn met at the time and place therein designated. A quorum having assembled the President, Dr. Bigelow, took the Chair

The Secretary read an abstract of the proceedings at the last annual meeting.

The Treasurer then read his annual report, which was accepted.

Trustees Election of.

The meeting then proceeded to the election of nine Trustees by ballot. A committe having been appointed to collect count and sort the votes, reported that nineteen ballots in all were thrown, each of which was for Jacob Bigelow. George W. Crockett. Charles P. Curtis. B. R. Curtis. J. J. Dixwell. Benj. A. Gould. John C. Gray. Isaac Parker. James Read. The foregoing gentlemen were accordingly declared elected Trustees for the ensuing year. After some general discussion of the interests and prospects of the Corporation, the meeting adjourned without day. A true record. Attest Henry M. Parker. Secretary

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Superintendent's Report. 1847.

The Superintendant [sic] reports the whole number of lots improved at Mount Auburn during the past year by being graded &c. as one hundred and forty seven.

Pursuant to notices issued in the usual manner by the Secretary to the nine gentlemen elected Trustees at the annual meeting the board met in the office of C.P. Curtis Esqr. at 12 o'clock M. on this third day of March A.D 1848. Present Messrs Bigelow, Crockett, B.R. Curtis, C. P. Curtis, Dixwell, B.A. Gould, and I. Parker.

Officers election of:

The meeting having come to ^^order_ proceeded to ballot for a President for the ensuing year. Dr Jacob Bigelow was unanimously elected.

The Meeting then proceeded to ballot for a Secretary for the ensuing year. Henry M. Parker was unanimously elected.

The Meeting then proceeded to ballot for a Treasurer for the ensuing year. George W. Bond was unanimously elected.

The meeting then proceeded to ballot for three persons to constitute the committee on lots for the ensuing year, and Jacob Bigelow, C.P. Curtis and I. Parker were unanimously elected.

The Committe on Finance for the ensuing year was filled by the unanimous election of Messrs Gould & Dixwell.

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Mr G.W. Crockett was chosen Auditor of accounts for the ensuing year.

Mr Crockett having retired from the meeting, and Mr Read having made his appearance, after a long discussion on the subject of recording plans &c. it was,

Proprietors Plans

Voted. that the Secretary procure and Keep a Port Folio in which he shall insert such Plans as the Proprietors may respectively procure to be made of their Lots, such Plans to be drawn by the Surveyor of the Corporation, on paper of uniform size, which shall be furnished by the Corporation, and none to be introduced into the Port Folio unless they shall be examined and approved in writing by the Committee on Lots or a majority of them, and to be at the proper expense of the Proprietors requiring them.

Surveyer.

Voted. That Alexander Wadsworth be the Surveyor of this Corporation until the further order of this Board.

Com^ee on Repairs

Voted. That Messrs Bigelow, Read and Dixwell be a committee to keep the Chapel, and all the constructions at Mount Auburn belonging to this Corporation, in repair.

ByLaws.

Voted. That the Secretary be requested, with the advice of C. P. Curtis Esquire to prepare and submit to the Trustees a revised copy of the by laws and principal regulations.

Chapel stained stones.

Voted. That Dr. Bigelow be authorized to experiment with reference to the removal of stains from the stone in the Chapel, on account of this Corporation to an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars.

Adjourned A true record Attest Henry M. Parker - Secretary

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Trustees.

Pursuant to notices issued in the usual manner by the Secretary the Trustees met at the office of C.P. Curtis Esqr at one o'clock P.M. on the first day of February A. D. 1849: present Messrs Bigelow, B.R. Curtis, C.P. Curtis, Geo. W. Crockett, Gould, Dixwell, Read: the Treasurer and the Superintendent were also in attendance.

Voted. That the annual meeting of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, be held at the office of the Clerk N^o 46 Washington Street on Monday February 5^th 1849 at 4 P.M. conformably to notice already given.

The Treasurer presented his annual report, which was accepted and ordered to be recorded, and laid before the Proprietors at their annual meeting on Monday ^^next

===George Cummings. New Lot.===

Voted. That Mr George Cummings (who surrendered his lot to the Corporation to make way for the Chapel &c) shall have from this Corporation a deed of the lot selected by him in place of his original lot, with all the same rights and privileges which he had in such original lot

Voted. That a letter from Mr Chadwick be referred to the Committee on lots with full power to act in the matter which it relates to.

===New Receiving Tomb===

Mr Gould from the Committee on the construction of a new receiving tomb made a verbal report as to the same, which was accepted and the Com^ee discharged.

By Laws.-

Mr C.P. Curtis reported verbally that the Secretary had prepared early in the last Spring a digest of the bye laws and principal regulations