Mount Auburn Cemetery

May 27 4 [1864]

Mrs Lucy Goddard Roxbury, Mass.

Dear Madam, A memorandum on a small slip of paper of the removal ^ ^{on the 26thultimo} of the remains of Martha West which were interred in No 85 St. James Lot, July 11,1848, lot to lot No 3251, which is represented by you, has been sent me for entry on the Register of Interments, be a regular order from the prop^r or representative of a lot should appear on our files, and to test the correctness of the record. I send the accompanying blank for your signature. Please return the same to me by mail, signed by you if all right.

Very respy yours A.J. Coolidge Secretary

May 31. [186]4

Edward Austin Esq

Dear Sir,

I enclose the report of the Superintendant upon the lot of John D. Sturtevant No 3367, on Fountain Avenue (next lot to Cha^s Merriam's) for the pur-- pose of ascertaining for what sum the Corporation will assume the perpetual care of the same.

Very resp.y yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

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2385 James M. Perkins of Boston, son of Mary Perkins, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 2385;

3627 Francis Jaques of Charlestown, one of the Trustees under will of Charles Merriam, jointly seized of lot numbered 3627;

Adjourned Attest Austin J. Coolidge, Sec.y

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Trustees _ Special Meeting _ June 20, 1866.

A Special Meeting of the Trustees was holden on Wednesday June 20, 1866, at 10 o'clock a.m.

There were present the President and Messrs Adams, Austin, Little, Lovejoy, Norcross, Rand and Read.

Subject of Notice to visitors referred to Com. on Grounds _ with power to Employ police _ &c _

The President stated that he had called the meeting at the suggestion of the Committee on Grounds, on account of a certain "notice to visitors" put up by the Superintendent, in the Cemetery, to which much objection was felt as not suited to the character of the place.

After some informed expression of opinion, and the offering and withdrawal of a motion,

upon motion by Mr Norcross, it was

Voted that the subject be referred to the Committee on Grounds, with full power, and that they give such notice to visitors, and employ such police force as they may think proper, and report their doings at the next meeting of this Board.

Adjourned Attest Austin J. Coolidge, Sec.y

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Final Report of Investigating Com^ee _

Mr Nazro for the Investigating Committee submitted the following report, _ which on motion of Mr Curtis, was accepted. _

The Committee on Investigation, &c. having completed their labors, so far as it is practicable to do so, now make their final report.

As it has been stated in our previous communcations, it must be obvious to all, that this examination must in the nature of the case, be only a partial one, and that there may be a further deficit of thousands of dollars entirely unknown to the Committee. As an instance of this, we will state the case of Mr Charles Merriam. Within a few days he has sent in two bills _ one of over a thousand dollars to the Granite Railway Co. which was paid to Mr Mann, and which we have ascertained was paid by him to the Railway Co: the other was for work done by the Cemetery amounting to $328, and the amount of which should have been credited by Mr Mann. Of this money, however, paid by Mr Merriam to Mr Mann, no trace can be found either in the cash book, leger or journals: the only place where Mr Merriam's name appears upon the books being for a small charge of $8 the following year. How many other cases of like nature may have occurred we have not the means of knowing, and we did not discover this until some three or four months after the proprietors had been requested to send in their bills.

The Committee addressed a circular to each of the