Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 403)

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The by-laws are now sufficient for making
a finish of all such cases & it is high
time we had done with the matter of getting
lots bounded. --

Can you not, as fast as you get the raking
along, have this work going on? I presume
there are comparatively few cases where raking
the leaves would be an assistance to this work.

The Committee some time since decided
to have all the unbounded lots reported, and
posts put to them.

I have before me some papers that have
been a good while on my files, & wish to finish the
matter. A bill dated Sep. 28, 1862 was made &
sent me for putting bounds to lot no 498 -- S. Lathrop
amounting to $8. -- Just before this sending the bill to
Mr Sam. E. Sewall who is the Trustee under L's will,
he wrote me a note stating that the heirs com-
plained that we have removed from the lot four
freestone posts & chains from the lot, and no one
could give any account of the matter. I well
remember that the lot had these posts & chains, &
suppose it got reported without bounds by reason of
the absence of one of the posts -- perhaps all the chains. Have
you ever made any further discovery in the matter? If
not, & we have set new posts, we ought certainly to resend
the bill, which Mr Sewall very properly refused to pay.

Very Respy yours

A.J. Coolidge