1859-02-07 Trustee Committee to Amend the Permanent Fund, 2021.004.001

The committee to whom was referred the vote of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn at their last annual meeting on the subject of the care of Lots

Report, -

That the Trustees feel bound to receive with respectful attention all suggestions coming from the Proprietors; but that it is impossible for them to keep in proper order an aggregate of nearly 3000 private lots, which number is constantly increasing, -and at the same time to pay the necessary expenses of the Cemetery, without consuming more than their whole income, and frustrating the purposes of the permanent fund, which they have covenanted with their new proprietors, to increase and keep inviolate.

Besides which ^{the Committee have doubts whether} The Trusees^would have any right to enter and repair, or otherwise alter, the lots of Proprietors, without the consent and specific instructions of each proprietor to that effect - Charles P. Curtis Jacob Bigelow B. A. Gould

Unanimously accepted

Report of Com^ee on amending the terms of Permanent Fund so as to embrace care of all lots

Feby 7. 1859

Accepted p. 269 A.J.C.