Mount Auburn Cemetery

100

cents shall be added for a stone number, & that none be sold without that condition. ~ ."

and book for recording such interments _

"Thirdly,, That a separate book shall be kept for recording interments in the public lots, said interments to be also fully described in the general Records." _

Adopted - Com^ee to execute the same -

Voted that the report be accepted & adopted,, & that Mr Nazro be a Committee to carry the foregoing recommendations into effect.

[ Mr Cheever here left the meeting to attend another meeting at 11 o'clock.]

T. Dowse's application to purchase strip of land _

A communication was presented to the meeting, of which the following is a copy. _

"Cambridge Sept. 1. 1856 To the Board of Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery, Gentlemen,

I should like to purchase in behalf of Mr Thomas Dowse the land between the lots of Messrs Wetherell & Faulkner - and leading from Pine Avenue to lot of said Dowse.

Conditions of sale to be that said land shall be kept open as a Path forever.- Very Respectfully O. W. Watriss". _

Mr Curtis suggested that the proposition in behalf of Mr Dowse should be referred to the Standing Committee