Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Chapel Floor _ : Report of Com^ee on,

floor to be covered with encaustic tiles reported _ That agreeably to their instructions, they have caused the whole floor to be paved with English burnt tiles of various colours, those in the name or central part being laid in cement, and those of the sides aisles which commonly are not exposed to be trod upon, being laid without cement.

Mr J Story's bill for tiles furnished to Mount Auburn is $899.89 – from which is to be deducted $66.48 for tiles used in tombs built by the Corporation, leaving to account of Chapel $833.41. The tiles were laid by workmen belonging to the Cemetery.

^signed Respectfully Jacob Bigelow Boston Jan'y 29^th 1861. Chairman

Tax on Stone Farm - Question of referred to Com^ee

Upon motion by Mr Curtis Voted that the report be accepted.

Mr Curtis stated that he had recently been called upon by Mr J. P. Healy in behalf of the town of Watertown relative to the right claimed by that town to assess a tax upon the stone Farm.

It was thereupon Voted that the questions of liability of this Corporation to any tax upon the Stone farm be referred to Mr Curtis, with full power.

The Treasurer stated that there