Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 421)

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who wishes to put on stone-work finds
it necessary to do a part of the work once again,
has nothing to do with the question. That is
an expense that we all incur if we see fit
to make an alteration in our dwellinghouse
or any other structure. In point of fact, how-
ever you were saved expense of the greater
portion of your ^^filling materials, when you curbed
your lot. --

The same land we sell today for
$2.00 per foot without any improvement.
I know you will cheerfully pay, when
convinced that our charge is no imposition.
We none of us are willing to submit to a
"gouge", as it is termed, and I am sure
the officers of this Corporation are as unwilling
to ask a purchaser to submit to any improper
charge as he can possibly be to pay it. --

You may feel assured, my dear Sir, that
what I tell you now is true -- that this
is a regular and proper charge, and one that
has been invariably made, where a lot is fitted
up in advance of sale. --

As I become Treas^r of the Corporation from
the 1^st of next month, you will please remit
the am^t of the bill to me.

I am respy your Obt Serv^t

A.J. Coolidge, Secretary.