Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 139)

March 22, [186]4

S.S. Osgood Esq
54 East 20^th St., New York

Dear Sir,

The subject of the amount
requisite for the perpetual care of your lot
no. 2151 in the Cemetery has been considered
by the Committee on Lots, who have instructed
me to inform you that they will
recommend the Trustees to assume
such care for the sum of five hun--
dred dollars.

This amount may seem some-
what large to you, but it is believed
that the value of the lot and its erections
together with the increased cost of such
repair would not justify the Corporation in
estimating it for a lower sum.—

I am very respy yours

A.J. Coolidge, Sec.y

March 29 [186]4

S.S. Osgood Esq^re
New York

Dear Sir,

I regret to
perceive from your note of 26^th last which
is just rec^d, that my explanation of our
regulations respecting the perpetual care
of lots, when you were at my office, was
to so little purpose.

If you will turn to Art. 29 of our printed
by-laws, which are contained in the two
last editions of the catalogue (1857, 1860) you
will find the following language— "The Trus-
tees will receive in trust from any pro-
prietor a sum of money not less than
one hundred dollars, the income of which
shall be appropriated to the repair of his
lot, according to the terms of trust given in
the appendix".

"The Trustees may also guarantee

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