Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Plans.

The Secretary reported that he had discharged the duty with which he was charged at the last meeting as to pro curing a Port Folio for plans.

Fee for inserting Plans.

Voted That the Secretary be authorized to charge Proprietors who may see fit to have plans made and introduced into the Port Folio, ordered at the last meeting, one dollar for each Plan so made and introduc ed in full for his services in the matter.

Fees for interments

The subject of fees for interments &c. was referred to the Committee on Lots.

The subject of Mr E.P. Clark's lot and location was committed to Mr C.P. Curtis and the Treasurer.

C.E. Trott.

Voted. That C.E. Trott may be permitted to select a lot in place of the one in front of the Chapel now belonging to him, which lot shall be fitted up by this Corporation like the one he at present owns, and a deed thereof shall be delivered to him by the Treasurer on his giving a deed of his present lot to this Corporation.

New Public Lot.

Voted. That the Superintendent lay out a lot of land one hundred feet wide on Fir Avenue, between Crocus and Mistletoe Paths and extending Westerly to the fence, to be appropriated to the purposes of a public lot.

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

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Trustees.

Pursuant to notices issued in the usual manner by the Secretary the Trustees met on the seventeenth day of June A.D. 1848 at 12 o'clock M. at the office of C.P. Curtis Esqr Boston; present Messrs Crockett B.R. Curtis, C.P. Curtis Gould, Gray, Isaac Parker and Read.

The Secretary not being present Mr Isaac Parker was chosen Secretary pro tem. C.P. Curtis Esqr was chosen Chairman. The record of the last meeting was read

Chapel

Mr Read on behalf of the Committee on repairs and the furnishing of the Chapel reported in part, that the platform and other preparations had be provided, the seats had been agreed upon and were in preparation, and that the plans were being prepared for the other articles, also that the roof had been repaired. It was stated that near the eaves but one course of slate had been put on where there should have been two, that this error had been corrected and that it was now believed that the roof was tight.

Deed to a Trustee authorized.

On the application of Edward D. Sohier Esq^r who is the Executor of the will of Phineas Blair deceased, _ it appearing that the deceased requested said Sohier to inter his remains in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn and appropriated a sum of money, for that purpose. Voted. that the Treasurer and Secretary be authorized to issue a deed to said Sohier as Trustee under the will of Phineas Blair.

Lot. 758.

The Committee on the application of E.P. Clark for the correction of an error in his deed by altering the word Pilgrim to Snow-drop reported that the word Pilgrim was inserted by mistake Mr Clark's lot not being on that path, but on Snow-drop path - where upon Ordered

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16 Pemberton Square,

May 26, [186]8

T.A. Chapman Esq. Milwaukee Wis. --

Dear Sir,

Out Treas^r, Mr Bond, has sent me your note of May 13^th requesting me to reply to it:

I regret to perceive that you have got an erronous impression in the matter. The bill as I see, is $53.25 for the first grading and sodding the lot. Your lot (no 3530 Mound Avenue) was graded up with a line of lots of which Mr Collier's is first and Mr Clark's last -- in advance of sale. The Corporation only occasionally grades lot before sale, and invariably, when this is done, adds the price of grading to the piece of land. Your land (400 feet) as you find in your deed cost you $600. This was for land in its naked condition. You may have got the idea that the $600 covered the whole from the fact that it was graded when you first saw it. The reason we make the charge for the land and grading separate is that we divide proceeds of land with the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and it has no interest in the work -- so we keep separate accounts, & the bills are rendered separately to the purchaser.

Every other gentleman near you has been charged this separate bill in the same way and has paid it. The fact, that if one