Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Nov. 22 [186]6

Capt D.L. Winsor

Dear Sir,

I have consulted the President in reference to the name and numbering of the new public Lot, and he had decided as follows:-- Name - "St. Paul." Numbers - Begin at "One"; and as the lot is a large one, reserve the two hundred old numbers which you say are on hand to the time when they will be wanted, or plant them, if you like, where they will eventually be wanted.

Please have the record of interments correspond with this. I think Miss Haliburton had a certificate last Saturday which had been issued to Mr Cunard of Halifax as "247 ___ lot." which should be "1 St Paul."

Mr F. Lyman Winship, prop^r of 422 Central Av. wishes a report made on that lot in respect to perpet. repair. He says there are no monuments, headstones or fence.

Mrs Charlotte J. Bond of Lowell wishes the work of resodding &c. which was to the done on lots 1813 & 1814 to be done this fall, if possible.

Yours Resp.y

A.J. Coolidge

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the Committee to settle the same in accordance therewith.

Petitⁿ to change no. of Lot 2263 _

The Treasurer, for Mr George Bates, proprietor of lots nos 708 & 2263, asked the Trustees to authorize the number of lot 2263 to be expunged, & that the same may become a part of ^^lot 708, it having been purchased as an addition thereto.

Referred to Com. on Lots -

Voted to refer the same to the Committee upon lots with full power. _

Adjourn^t_

Voted that when we adjourn, it be to meet at this place on Saturday the second day of February, at 12 O'clock M. to hear the report of the Treasurer & Sup^t & transact any other business that may come before the meeting. _

Adjourned Attest A. J. Coolidge Sec^y

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Trustees Feb^y 2^d. 1856.

The adjourned meeting of the Trustees was held at the usual place on Saturday, the second day of February A. D. 1856, at 12 M. . _

Present, the whole board. ~

annual Rep^t of Treas^r

The Treasurer presented his annual report, duly audited, & the same was read. _

Voted to refer the same to the Annual Meeting of the Proprietors on Monday next. _

Lots 420, 421, 422 - petitⁿ of H. W. Dutton & others

A petition was received & presented from H. W. Dutton, Freeman Winship for the heirs of Jona. Winship, S. S. Holton, proprietors of lots 420, 421 & 422 respectivelly, that that the numbers upon the deeds & record may be

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Referred to next Board.

changed so as to correspond with the numbers of the lots as actually occupied by them: _ S.S. Holton's to become 420, H. W. Dutton's 421, & the heirs of Winship 422. _

Voted to refer the same to the next board of Trustees. _

Sec^y's bill for extra services _

the Secretary presented a bill of $56 for Extra Services rendered the Corporation during the year 1855.

Voted that the Treasurer be ordered to pay the same. _

Sec^y's Memorial in respect to Salary _

The Secretary also presented a memorial representing that the present salary paid for discharging the duties of that office is insufficient, & petitioning that the same be increased, _ which was read. _

Voted that the same be referred to the next Board of Trustees.

Adjourned sine die Attest Austin J. Coolidge Secretary.

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Proprietors 1856 Annual Meeting _

Mount Auburn Cemetery

The Annual Meeting of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn will be held at the Meionaon, Tremont Temple, on Monday the 4^th day day of February, at 4 o'clock P.M. to hear the reports of the Trustees, Treasurer & Superintendent: to choose Trustees for the ensuing year & to act on any other business which may legally come before the meeting.

By order of the Trustees Austin J. Coolidge Secretary Boston Jan^y 26^th 1856.

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Geo. Bates' memorial leave to withdraw

Upon the request of George Bates, Proprietor of lots 708 & 2263, presented at the meeting in January, (see p. 58) that the number 2263 might be erased, & that the lot might become part of lot 708. _

The Committee have ascertained that the lots are entirely separate & they deem it inexpedient that they should be united in one number. _

Voted that the same be accepted. _

Lots 420, 421, 422 - Petition for change of numbers upon record refused.

Upon the petition of H. W. Dutton, Freeman Winship for the heirs of Jonathan Winship, & S.S. Holton, proprietors of lots 420, 421, & 422 respectively, presented at the meeting in February, ^^{(see p. 58)} referred to this Board of Trustees, to by them at the March Meeting, referred to the aforesaid Committee & the Secretary: _ asking that the numbers upon their deeds, & the record of the same may be changed, so as to correspond with the numbers of the lots as actually occupied by them, according to a statement submitted by them: _

The Committee have been unable to determine from so distant a period, how the error originally arose: but independently of that consideration they deem it improper to authorize the alteration of the record as it would involve a departure from the system which has been uniformly observed - a correspondence between the number of the deed & the page of the record; and they see no necessity in this instance, since the parties by making transfers from one to the other, can obtain what they desire. _

They therefore report that the petitioners have leave to withdraw. _

Voted that the report be accepted. _