Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Oct. 23, 1888.

Wm. C. Peters, Esq., Boston.

Dear Sir: -

Your note is received, cemetery lots are I believe appraised at a nominal value. Mr. Bradlee's lot #4655 cost $1960.00, and lot #4159 cost $500.00. Mr. Swett's lot #937 is worth about $500.00.

Respectfully yours,

Supt.

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Oct. 23, 1888.

Archibald M. Howe, Esq., Boston.

Dear Sir:-

Your note is received, lots non. 33 and 745 are each worth about $300.00

Respectfully yours,

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Trustees March 12^t, 1873. were designated for Lots as follows, viz: –

33 Susanna S. Folsom of Cambridge, Widow of Charles Folsom deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Thirty=three.

139 Israel G. Whitney of West Roxbury, Son of Israel Whitney deceased proprietor of Lot numbered One hundred & thirty=nine.

Voted – that this meeting be dissolved.

Sam^l Batchelder Jr., Secretary.

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Trustees. April 9^t, 1873.

April 9^t, 1873.

A monthly meeting of the Trustees was held on Wednesday, April 9^t, 1873, at Four P.M.

Present, Messrs. J. T. Bradlee, Choate, Lawrence, Little, Perkins, Pickering, Snow and Turner. Also, present after the adjournment, M^r N. J. Bradlee.

The record of the last meeting was read and approved.

Accounts &c. at the Cemetery: mode of Keeping – Report of Com.

A verbal Report was received from the chairman of the Committee on Finance that in pursuance of the vote of the Board adopted February 12, 1873, the Committee in company with the President, had visited the Cemetery for the purpose of ascertaining "what changes, if any, are desirable in the method and system of books and accounts at the Cemetery, and also what clerical force is necessary in said department." That they believed the system in use, though good, to be susceptible of improvement, especially in the matter of its application, and that they had made suggestions for the future conduct of