Mount Auburn Cemetery

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continued from p. 189.

The Treasurer reports the following abstract of Receipts & Expenditures for the Eighteenth year 1849.

There remained in the Treasury on 1st Jan	867.
He has received from sales of Lots	14.594.28
From sundry parties for deeds &c	140.
" [From] income of investments	2852.50
" [From] " [income] " [of] " [investments] of Story Statue Fund	275.
" [From] " [income] " [of] " [investments] " [of] Fund for Repairs	105.
" [From] J.E. Williams Executor of the will of the late	___
Pelham W. Warren	100.
___	18.933.78

He has paid for current expenses	4040.05
" [He] " [has] " [paid] in part for wooden fence	3950.
" [He] " [has] " [paid] for $2000 of old Colony Rail Road Bonds	1889.33
" [He] " [has] " [paid] " [for] 20 shares Boston & Providence Rail Road Bond	1832.50
" [He] " [has] " [paid] " [for] $1500 City of Boston Scrip	1500
" [He] " [has] " [paid] " [for] $500 " [City of Boston] investments	___
for Story Statue fund	502.75
" [for] amount refunded Thos Hollis	___
pd by him for interment in Public Lot	10.
Massachusetts Horticultural Society	___
for their proportion of sales	3292.07
There remained in the Treasury Dec 31.	1917.08
Boston Dec 31. 1849	18933.78

It will be seen by the accompanying Trial Balance (p.189) that the corporation had on hand & invested on the 31^st of Dec^rember last $44.897.08 besides which they have in charge invested for fund for repairs 1500, for Story Statue fund 4500 of the above funds belonging to the Corporation there will be required to pay for improvments in progress & nearly completed about $14000, which will leave your investment about $30,000. All of which is respectfully submitted. Geo. W^m Bond. Treasurer.

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John C. Stiles of Cambridge, father in law of Levi P. Thompson, late proprietor of lot numbered 3159, to represent said lot: _

Adjourned Attest Austin J. Coolidge, Secretary.

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Trustees _ June 6. 1864

The regular monthly meeting of the Trustees was held on Monday June 6^th 1864, at 10 o'clock a.m.

There were present Messrs Austin, Bigelow, Cheever, Crocker, Little, Livermore, Norcross, Rand and Read. _

The records of the last meeting were read. _

Sec.y. under direction of Com^ee to notify Granite R. Co to remove the stones of the façade _

Upon motion by Mr Rand,

Voted that the Secretary be instructed, under the direction of the Committee appointed at the last meeting in relation to the removal of the façade of the Catacombs, to notify Thomas Hollis, President of the Granite Railway Company, to remove the stones of the façade, the same not being conformable to the contract. _

[Increase in price of lots _]

Dr. Bigelow suggested that the universal increase of prices including the cost of labor and materials appeared to him to require an increase of the price of land. _