Mount Auburn Cemetery

June 19^th [18]69

Dear Sir,

A letter rec^d by you some time since by my predecessor was mislaid, so that I didn't know to whom to send the enclosed bills -- and now I am in doubt of one of the initials of your first name -- In replying, please write out your name in full. The bills sent herewith are more than 6 mos. overdue --

Gardening --	$12.00
Foundation for headstones	4.50
[total]	16.50

Please also state whether the prop^r left a will -- if so, how thereunder the lot is disposed of either specifically, or by effect. Also who are his heirs at law -- names, residence & degree of relationship. I will then enclose you one of our blank petitions to represent lot.

Resp.y yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec. & Treas^r

A.C. Stearns Esq

June 18^th [18]69

Dear Sir,

Will you inquire ^^[?] send to Robert B. Safford on the following, & make me a specific answer? --

We have a gardening bill against Lorenzo Burge, Lot no. 3670, for 1868, amounting to $8.00 -- on which Mr B. (whom I believe to be a gentleman, & would not intentionally misstate) gives me this explanation --

He paid $20. for deposit of body of his son Lorenzo E. Burge in R.T. Feby 4, 1866 and on his removal to lot 3670, July 2 [18]66 he became entitled to a drawback of $14.00 which has never been refunded.

When R.B.S. brought to him a gardening bill in Dec. 1866 amounting to $11.00 Mr B. supposing this had no connection with the interment matter in settlement

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did not ask to have it taken from the $14. but paid it to R.B.S. -- When R.B.S. brought the bill of $6.00 for care of lot for 1867, (Mr B. not having then rec^d anything back of his $14.00) asked R.B.S. if this should not come out: to which Safford assented, and then promised to take good care of his lot for 1868 also for $8.00, and that then the 6.00 & 8.00 would square the account. He therefore asks to pay the 1868 bill in this way. --

I find however (whether correct or not) on the cash book of Treas^r and also on R.B.S.'s list, that the $6. for 1867 was p^d Dec^r 18, 1867. -- Unless that should have been credited to some other person, & Mr Burge's story is correct, we shall still owe him after this last year's bill is settled.

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge

The following is the vote adopted by the Trustees at the last meeting --

"Voted -- That the practice of charging for land in case of a second interment in a public lot be abolished, and that the by laws relating to interments be so amended as to substitute further clause --

"Where more than one interment is made in the same grave, the last shall be at least three feet below the surface of the ground," the following --

"Not more than two interments shall be made in the same grave, the latter of which shall be at least three feet below the surface of the ground."

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

June 18, 1869

Please show ^^{or state} this to the Gatekeeper & undertaker --

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