Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 104)

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if the proprietors prefer to have two bonds, the
Committee will issue them. The Trustees, however, will
not contract for the preservation of one lot alone.”

The above reply, of course, is not intended
to deprive any proprietor from exercising a right conferred
by the by-laws of depositing any sum not less than $100 with
[the] Corporation, the income of which will be devoted to the
care of his or her lot, upon the usual terms of trust;
It relates only to the guaranty of perpetual care.-

I am very respectfully yours

A.J. Coolidge, Secy of
the Prop^rs Cem.y of Mt. Auburn

Boston, ------- De^r 17 1863

Dear Sir,
Will you be so kind as
to confer with Mrs. Hemenway
as to the reconveyance of her ^^burial lots with
a view to receive a deed of the
Corporation of the whole in one lot.

The transfer of lot 2297 from L.F.
Merrill ran to the Corporation, & has not
since been conveyed to Mrs. H.- Lot 1463
stands in the name of Augustus Hemenway.
The two old lots contained 600 square feet.-
Her lot as curbed contains 790 square feet.
She must pay the Corporation for 190 feet
of land, and as the land is all enclosed in one
curb, it is impraticable to have more than one
number, which should be her old one – 1463.
As lots are indivisible, on order to preserve unity of
title, I see no way but for the Trustees of Mr H
to reconvey 1463 to the Corporation, & a new deed be
made to Mrs. H. of 790 feet.

Very rspfly yours A.J.Coolidge

I have fact rec^d & recorded the deed of ornamental grounds & fountain
to Mrs. H. - which she will probably receive tomorrow or next day.