Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Names	Names	Names
Isaac Staples	H Andrews	John W Fenno
Joseph P Bradlee.	Dennis Brigham	Henry Grew
Thomas Curtis	B. Fiske	Caleb Chace
Levi Brigham	Amos Binney.	James Weld
John Kuhn	Sam. S. Lewis	Joseph Hay
James Russell.	Jabez Fisher 2d	Benj Fisk
Geo. W. Crockett	Horace Scudder
Arthur French	Wm P. Winchester.	Wm Lawrence
Peter Thatcher	Gurdon Steele	Henry Loring.
A. C. Fearing	James Means	James K Mills
Isaac [M. Gillam?]	Geo. H. Kuhn	Abrm Howard
J. W. Paige	Zelotes Hosmer	R D [Cillany?] by A Howard Atty
Daniel Denny	Thomas B Wales _	J Bender
Ozias Goodwin	Thomas Wiley.	Nathaniel Hobart
W Sturgis -		Geo Darracott
John Bryant	Z. B. Adams	Jos. [Mariner?]
J. Mason		HAS Dearborn
	Ebenr Bailey.	Geo. W. Coffin-
Deming Jarves	James L. L. Warren	A. H. Everett.
Simon Stearns	Geo. [Dorissett?]	A. E. [Belknap?] }
James Arnold	Nath'l K Lombard	agent for the Proprietors of/ Tremont house }
Jabez Fisher	Peleg Churchill	Thomas B. Curtis by?] CP Curtis Atty.. }
Jesse Bird	D. A. Simmons	Nath'l. Hammond
Stephen White		Isaac H. Cary
Josiah Quincy	[Melanethon?] Smith	[S.or G?] Bartlett
Daniel Henchman	William E Blanchard	Alpheus Cary.
Geo. C. Schattuck	Enoch Hobart	Dwight Boyden
Josp'h Coolidge	T W Ward.	John Albree
Henry Oxnard	Saml Swett.	Otis Daniell
Daniel P Parker	Jno. Randall	George. W. Lewis

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Copy the notes.

Com^ee on Lots

Voted. That Mess^rs Bond, Bigelow & C. P. Curtis by a committee on laying out & discontinuing lots in the said Cemetery, with power to employ as many hands as they shall see fit.

Do on Rules as to Visitors

Voted that Mess^rs Story & Curtis be a committee to Prepare Rules & Regulations concerning visitors & Interments at Mt. Auburn.—

Do on Seal.

Voted. That Mess^rs Bigelow & Story be a committee to devise a Seal for the Corporation & to report to the Trustees at a future meeting.—

Rules as to Visitors.—

Voted. That until further ordered, the Rules & Regulations adopted by the Garden & Cemetery Committee of the Mass^tts Horticultural Society, concerning visitors & interments at Mount Auburn be in full force.

Superintendent

Voted. That M^r John W. Russell be continued as Superintendant of the Mount Auburn Cemetery with all the powers & authorities heretofore conferred on him by the Mass^tts Horticultural Society, or the Garden & Cemetery Committee thereof.

Register of Interments

Voted. that M^r Gould be a committee to procure a book suitable for registering interments at Mount Auburn.

Voted. That Mess^rs Bigelow, Bradlee & Read

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Trustees.

Pursuant to notice issued by the Secretary, the Trustees of the Pros. of the Cemy. of Mount Auburn met at the house of Mr Bond the Treasurer on Saturday the 28^th day of January 1837, at at half past seven oclock P.M. Present Mess^rs Bigelow, Bond, Brown, Gould & Read.

In the absence of the President Dr. Bigelow was chosen chairman of the meeting.-

Treasurers Report._

The Treasurer then made his report, accompanied by a statement of Mr. Russell, the Superintendent.

Voted. To accept the Treasurers Report & that the Secretary lay the same before the Corporation at their next annual meeting,-

Voted. To adjourn sine die.-

A true record Attest B.R. Curtis Secretary.

Proprietors 1837.

Mount Auburn Cemetery

The annual meeting of the Pros. of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn will be held on Monday the 6^th day of February 1837 at 11 o clock A.M. at the Rooms of the Horticultural Society in Boston to choose Trustees for the ensuing year, to hear the report of the Treasurer, & to act on any other business which may come before the said meeting

Jan. 30^th B.R. Curtis Sec. Pro^m Cem. Mt. Auⁿ

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Treas Report.

the past year. By this it appears that the sum of $2985 Dollars has been inoested [invested] for account of the Proprietors $884.06 paid over to the Treasurer of the Mass. Hor. Society & $1253.59 remains in the Treasury.

The whole investments are as follows vis.

12 Shares in the N. E. Bank	1200	___
15 " [shares] Hamilton " [Bank]	1500	___
25 " [shares] Shawmut	2500	___
6 " [shares] in Bos. & Low R.Rd	3000	$8200

Mr. Russell, the Superintendant of the Cemetery reports, that during the year ending the 31^st ult. 43 tormbs have been built, 21 monuments erected, 45 Lots turfed & otherwise improved & 191 interments made - that the whole number of tombs is 122, of monuments 109, of interments 456 & of interments in the public Lot 14. All which is submitted

Sign^d Geo. Bond.

The Treasurer charges himself as follows vis.

For monies in his hands 31 Decr last	___	___	870.30
Sales 42 Lots during the past year	___	5256.24	___
Less annual payment to Mrs Pomroy	20	___	___
Pd C. Alger for iron waggon made in 1835	300	___	___
allowed for expenses pd agreed with Hor. Socy	1400	1720	3536.24
Amt. allowed as above by Horl. Society	___	___	1400.00
Dividends on Stock in N. England,	___	___	___
Hamilton & Shawmut Banks	___	___	299.00

of Labor & board being receipts for 4 years by Mr. Russell $60

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Trustees.

The Trustees of the Proprietors of the Cem^y. of Mount Auburn met, pursuant to notice from the Secretary at the Porters Lodge in the Cem^y. on Thursday the the 12^th day of April 1838. Present Mess^rs Bigelow, Bond, Brimmer, C. P Curtis, B. R. Curtis, Gould, Read & Story.

Premium

Voted. That Dr. Bigelow be authorized to offer a premium of Fifty Dollars for the best design of a monument.

Trees not to be exposed

Voted. That the Superintendent & the Surveyor of the Cem^y. be instructed not to lay out any Lot in such a situation that the digging of graves & the erecting of a Tomb thereon would be injurious to any valuable tree _

Voted. To adjourn to the Treasurers office at three oclock P.M. on Monday the 16^th instant.

The Trustees met pursuant to the above mentioned adjournment.

Irregular Lots.

Voted. That the Comm^ee on Lots be authorized to sell such irregular peices of ground as cannot be laid out in Lots of 300 feet & as it may not be expendient to reserve for public monuments, at their discretion provided however that the charge per foot shall not be less than 26 2/3 cents & the sum of 20 dollars for the right of selection.