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time and has expressed an intention of devising the same to this Corporation to be by them held and maintained in good order and repair as aforesaid . _ therefore --

Lot 233.

Voted that upon receiving notice of a valid devise of said ot numbered two hundred and thirty three by virtue of which the title to the same shall revest in this Corporation, and upon the receipt at the same time and under the last will and testament of the said Mistress Elizabeth Williams of the sum of two thousand dollars, this Corporation will accept the said devise and bequest and from and after that time keep the same in perpetual repair in its present condition forever

Trustee chosen.

The Trustees then proceeded to the election of one person by ballot to fill the vacancy in the board of trustees caused by the death of the Hon. Martin Brimmer. The ballots having been collected counted and examined were found to be all for the Honorable Theodore Lyman, and he was accordingly announced to be unanimously elected.

Adjourned. A true record. Attest Henry M. Parker. Secretary -

Pursuant to notices issued in the usual manner by the Secretary the Trustees met in the office of C.P. Curtis Esqr on the twentieth day of August. A.D. 1847. at twelve o'clock M. Present Messrs Bigelow,

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B.R. Curtis. C.P. Curtis. Crockett. Gould Parker and Read.

The Secretary read a letter from the Hon Theo. Lyman declining to act as a Trustee.

Chapel.

The subject of accepting the Chapel and pay- ing for the same having been extensively dis- cussed. it was Voted. That Messrs Read & Crockett ^^{constitute a committee} with full powers to make a settlement with the contractors on the Chapel building.

Adjourned, A true record. Attest Henry M. Parker. Secretary.

Pursuant to notices issued in the usual manner by the Secretary the Trustees met on the thirty first day of Janu- ary A.D. eighteen hundred and forty eight at the office of C.P. Curtis Esqr. at one o'clock P.M. Present Messrs Bigelow, Crockett, C.P. Curtis, Parker and Read.

The Secretary being detained at home by sickness Mr Isaac Parker was chosen Secretary pro tem.

Chapel

Messrs Read and Crockett, the Committee appointed at the last meeting on the subject, reported verbally that they had settled with the contractors on the Chapel building having obtained from them an allowance of one thous- and dollars for bad stone and other deficiences in that building, and that the balance had been paid to them

Statue of Judge Story

C.P. Curtis Esqr from the Committee on the Statute of the late Mr Justice Story reported that that Committee had made a satisfactory arrangement with William

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Iron Fence

Dr Bigelow from the Committee on lots, reported that the iron fence contemplated in the order of this Board passed March 19^th 1847 had been com- pleted and paid for, but that owing to certain de lays and disappointments the ________, or wood- en fence, was not done.

J.J. Dixwell chosen Trustee

John J. Dixwell Esqr. was elected by ballot a Trustee to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Hon. Martin Brimmer, the Hon Theodore Lyman heretofore elected having declined.

The Treasurer presented his annual report which was accepted and ordered to be recorded and laid before the Proprietors at their annual meeting on Monday next.

Adjourned. A true record. Attest Isaac Parker Secretary pro tem. A true record ex relatione Isaac Parker Attest Henry M. Parker Secretary.

Proprietors 1848

Mount Auburn Cemetery. The annual meeting of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, will be held at the office of the subscriber, in Boston, at No 27 State Street, on Monday the seventh day of February, 1848, at 4 o'clock P.M. to choose Trus- tees for the ensuing year, to hear the report of the Treasurer, and to act on any other business which may legally come before the said meeting.

Henry M. Parker. Secretary. January 25.

[stamp: embossed, of building] Collected by Chas P. Curtis 530. - including his own & Mr. Brimmer