Mount Auburn Cemetery

426

16 Pemberton Square,

June 25, [186]8

Mr F.R. Bunker, Gate Keeper &c.

Dear Sir,

For the greater facility of regulating the accounts, and to render ourselves less liable to mistakes, you will please make the following changes in the practice of accounts & payments at the Gate: --

I wish your account such as we can enter upon the cash book in detail as rec^d from you. So, instead of starting the account with a statement of the money you hold, & ending in the same manner, I wish the account to correspond with the amount of money you remit me. Begin with the first item received, and transcribe from your cash book just as far as will make the amount of money you wish to remit, after charging the payments: So that the difference between receipts & payments will be the amount remitted.

Then as to paying bills -- such bills are can easily be paid at this office, as for instance, John Runey, & Morss & Whyte in the June 12^th a/c, get them approved, & send them here for payment.

Instead of carrying the pay of ^^casual laborers into the acct, pay them, keep the vouchers, enter the amt on the next payroll, & I will settle with you when I pay.

Yours Resp.y

A.J. Coolidge Treas^r

428

16 Pemberton Sq.

July 2^d [186]8

Mr F.R. Bunker,

Please make your ^^next acct. agree with the accts. previously rendered me -- that is, after [finding? fixing?] up the amts. of bills collected stated in the acct. rendered me, and deducting the payment, in the same acct. -- then return the whole of the cash in your hands, and carry into a new account just items enough to make the difference of the two sides clear your hands of the remaining cash, which for sure, you had better pay in, and we can start with a new a/c.

After that you can retain what you recd, and stop on the books in [abstracting?] your acct. where you choose, only let the cash sent agree with that specific accts. To [?] any misunderstanding I will state it as it is up to the present. [this sentence indecipherable]

[last part of page financial accts.]

If you have enough in your hands to pay your quarter's salary $162.50, (I corrected your a/c from 162.48) I will settle it with you on Friday eve.y, when we pay, & you can make up your a/c for enough to cover it.

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge

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Supply of Water for Cem.y ref^d to Spec^l Com^ee to report _

Voted that the subject of any arrangement with the Cambridge Water Works for a supply of water for the Cemetery be referred to Messrs Livermore & Cheever to inquire & report thereon at the next meeting.

Sup.t^s Salary increased to $250. _

On motion by Mr Bowditch,

Voted that the Salary of the Superintendent be twenty five hundred dollars _ $2500 _ per annum, commencing on the 1^st of July.

Frank R. Bunker appointed

The Committee on Lots to which was referred in April last the subject of appointing a Gatekeeper with power to make such appointment subject to the concurrence of the Trustees, reported that they had appointed

Frank R. Bunker and it was

Voted that such appointment be confirmed.

Com. on Catalogue report _

The Committee on Catalogue and Plans reported through the Chairman Mr Norcross _ reported that the Catalogue is nearly ready for distribution, and that the engraving of the map of the Cemetery on Stone is also finished, ready for printing. The Committee recommends the distribution of the catalogue gratuitously