Mount Auburn Cemetery

414

16 Pemberton Sq.

May 9 [186]8

Geo W^m Bond Esq

Dear Sir,

Capt. Winsor says that you have requested him to sell two old lots belonging to the Corporation. I presume you mean those contained on your annual report nos. 567 & 592. --

Lot 567 on Indian Ridge Path belonged to Sam^l S. Curtis, which he transf^d to the Corpⁿ Nov. 1, 1853 for $100. -- The number has been applied to a lot in another part of the Cemetery & such lot has been sold. The land which is nearly identical with old 567 on Indian Ridge, as I find by plan, is shown by the record to have been sold on the 12^th of July 1864 as lot 3493 on Rosebay Av. to Mrs B.C. Clark for $360. But there are 480 feet in lot 3497 while 567 contained but 300 ft --

Lot 592 was on Mayflower Path (as then named). This ^^{with the tomb} the Corpⁿ bought June 14, 1862 of James Phalen for $215.

The land has since been graded, & if not already sold as some new lot near the junction of Ash Av. with Fountain (on Ash) very soon will be. The locality is probably ^^partly in the rear of lot 3608 cor. of Fountain & Ash, & partly covered by lot 3608 -- which was sold, to the heirs of Eli Jones for $2 per foot.

If the Horticultural Society have shared a second time without right in the sales, it is probably not worth while to disturb it now.

Very truly yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

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May 11, 1863 _ Treasurer's Annual Report.

The Treasurer reports the following abstract of Receipts and Expenditures for the 31^st year, 1862.

He has received from sundry parties, for materials and labor on Lots	17,010.51
For Sales of Lots	17,726.86
" [For] Deeds	106.00
" [For] Income of investments	1,130.00
" [For] Interments in Public Lot	362.00
" [For] Tomb	1,618.00
" [For] Notes Receivable	5,000.00
___	___	$42,953.37

He has paid as follows, viz: _

For Labor and Materials used at the Cemetery	21,409.03
To sundry parties for Expenses	4,950.11
" [To] Massachusetts Horticultural Society	2,661.35
" [To] sundry parties for interest	197.29
" [To] Austin J. Coolidge, Secretary	487.50
" [To] sundry parties refunded for removals from Public Lots and Receiving Tombs	97.00
For Water Works	2,100.00
" [For] Green House	260.41
" [For] Mass. Hospital Life Ins. Co. deposd for permanent Fund	3,595.82
" [For] Lot 592 bought of James Phalen	215.00
" [For] Geo. Wm Bond, Commission on Collections for 1861	288.28
" [For] Commission on Sales and Collections for 1862,	800.00
" [For] there was due him last year	446.11
" [For] remaining in his hands	5,445.47
___	___	$42,953.37

Geo. W^m Bond, Treas^r