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by the Treasurer and placed in the Cemetery be approved.

Lot 376.

Voted. That Mr Crockett be a committee of one to confer with Mr Pierce about the condition of a tomb on lot no 376. near Forest Pond, owned by said Pierce

Pyrola Path Bellwort Path

On motion of Mr Bangs. Voted. That a committee of three be appointed with authority to extend Pyrola Path from Orange to Walnut Avenue; also Bellwort Path from Orange to Walnut Avenue.

Messrs Bigelow Bangs & Gould were appointed to constitute said committee.

Well near Yarrow Path

Also Voted. That the same committee consider the expediency of constructing a well with a pump on Spruce Avenue near where Yarrow Path intersects it.

Privies near Gate

Also Voted. That the same committee consider the expediency of erecting privies near the Gate.

Side Gate.

Voted. That Mr Bangs be a committee of one with power to take such steps as he shall see fit to prevent improper entrances into the Cemetery at the side gate.

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

Trustees. Oct . 2. 1854.

At the regular monthly meeting of the Trustees holden October 2. 1854 there were present Messrs Bigelow, Curtis, Bangs, Gould, Little and Read. The Secretary being absent, and engaged in court. G. W. Bond was chosen Secretary pro tem.

The record of the last meeting was read and approved.

Statuary

Mr Curtis and the Secretary presented to the board their opinion that the Trustees are lawfully authorized to appropriate monies for the purchase of comemorative statues for the embellishment of the Cemetery, whereupon it was voted that the same be entered at length in the records of the Board.

Mr Curtis communicated to the trustees a letter to himself from

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Boston April 28.1862

E.L. Childs Esq. Washington D.C.

Dear Sir, It is some two or three years since the lot of the late Thos. C. Larkin was mentioned to me by you as one for sale. We have had several letters pass on this subject & on the endowment, and I have made several efforts for the sale of it, and at last found a customer who has taken it at your price: and has paid over the $500 to Mr Erving and I suppose the money has reached you before this time.

As Mr Erving appeared to have no instructions but to deliver the deed, I said nothing to him about my services, and concluded it was best to suggest the matter directly to you only. If you are satisfied to pay me $5., I shall think, and hope it may so appear to you, that the fee was well earned.-

I urged the sale to Mr Pierce, because I believed it as much for the interest of the Larkin Estate as for him - for it would be seldom that I could find a man willing to pay $500 for a lot situated just as this one is. People do not like a double terrace, nor to occupy a lot in common with a stranger, and I have found most persons object to this lot for those reasons.

I find the deed antedates the contract for repair of lot, but as that cont. same with the lot, regardless of ownership, the date is immaterial. -

I have the honor to be Very respy. your Ob^nt Servant

A.J. Coolidge