Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 052)

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33 School St Boston March 18^th/62

Hon. Nath^l Silsbee,
Treas^r Harv. Coll.-

Dear Sir, The subject referred to in the
accompanying circular is not now for the first time
brought to the notice of the "Pres. & Fellows"

I find upon the records of our Board of Trustees,
three years since (Feby. 1859.) the following as the Report of a
Com^ee to whom the subject was ref^d.

"The Committee to whom was referred the memorial
of Mr Lawrence, Treas^r of Harv^d College, respecting the
boundaries of the lot in the Cemetery belonging to that Corpor-
ation - with full power.

Reported that they had arranged with the Treas-
urer of the College that said lot should be surveyed, and
that is should be optional with him whether the monuments
now said to encroach upon the lands of this Corporation
should be removed within the present bounds, or whether
sufficient land should be exchanged from another
part of said lot to be equivalent to the land now
occupied by said monuments."

And the report was accepted - and here,
it now appears, the matter ended. -

The lot in question (no. 330 in the Cemetery) is