Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 250)

March 29 5 [1865]

Henry Gassett Esq

My dear Sir,

I have laid
the subject of the perpetual care of your
lot, No 2113, before the Com^ee on Lots,
for a revision of their opinion, after
obtaining from the Sup.^t a new report
on the same -- and they have instructed
me to inform you that they will
contract for such perpetual preservation
for six hundred dollars. --

My own opinion is that you will
do well to accept these terms, as those
as low as any I have ever known
upon so large a lot, with such val-
uable appurtenances as yours. --

I mentioned that you were willing to
pay $500, but they did not feel it safe
to accept that sum. --

I am Very Resp.y yours

A.J. Coolidge
Sec.y

April 11^th5 [1865]

G.D. Norris Esq
Milwaukee Wis.

Dear Sir,

A note from
you which authorizes the interment of Henry
Wilkins in your lot on the 30^th Jany. 1865, contains
the information that your father S.H. Norris is not
living. As our records do not show his interment
in the lot, or in the Cemetery, I had no means
of knowing the fact of his death. --

The accompanying blank contains informa-
tion for the direction of heirs and devisees upon
the decease of a proprietor. It is applicable
in all cases, where the proprietor has left
more than one heir at law, or where he has
not devised his lot to one person, either directly
or indirectly in his will. --

Will you please have it filled up and
executed by the proper persons (if it applies to this
lot) ^^{including yourself,} and return it to me.

Respectfully yours,

A.J. Coolidge, Secretary

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