Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 103)

Boston, Dec^r 7, 1863

C.W. Loring Esq^r

Dear Sir,

I have submitted to the "Committee on Lots"
of our Corporation, consisting of Messrs Chas. P. Curtis, Edw^d
Austin and W^m. T. Andrews, your question - "for what sum
they will recommend the Trustees to contract for the perpetual
care of lot no. 408, on Ivy Path, belonging to heirs of the late
Joshua Blake": - and subjoin a copy of their reply: -
premising, however, that the Blake lot is contained within
the same enclosure as lot no. 407, belonging to heirs of the
late George Hallet, having a monument in common to both
lots, erected to the memory of the late Francis Stanton, and
that the care of both lots as one seems to be the only practicable
mode of arrangement: Size of lots viz. 407 has 511 feet & 408 has
645 feet = 1156 square feet.

"The Committee on Lots will recommend the Trustees to
guarantee the perpetual care and preservation of the two lots, nos.
407 & 408 for one thousand ($1000) dollars. As there is a
handsome monument to Mr Francis Stanton, standing
in the middle of the triangle, the Committee think it will
be best for all parties that there should be one
Bond embracing the whole of both lots; but