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and I am persuaded that the Committee will be satisfied that such is the fact, if they will take the opportunity to inquire into my duties and the method of performing them.

I am Very Resp.y Your Ob^t Serv^t

A.J. Coolidge

Apr. 25 [186]6

Jos. Tuckerman Esq

Dear Sir

Yours of 23^d is just at hand. I supposed I had sufficiently indicated in my note of 13^th inst that no record is made by our Corporation of any interest in any lot less than the entire ownership. This results from the provision of the charter that "lots are indivisible". The Corporation do not object to a man's owning a part of a lot, but there is no way to make such ownership appear upon our records. It results then that, unless all the separate interests of lot no. 496 are gathered up in you or someone else, and so the entire interest is recorded, the title of record must [ ? ]

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instrument of contract for the consideration of Fifteen hundred dollars, signed by George Gardner as Executor of the Will of James Read, instead of in three several instruments in the name of the several proprietors for $400.– $700.– and $400.– respectively as recommended by the Committee in their report of April 12^t, 1871; – it was

Voted, – that the above mentioned contracts, be severally concurred in on the part of this Board.

Upon the petitions of the parties in interest representives were designated for Lots as follows:

439 Mrs. Mary P. Shaw of Dedham, Widow of Charles B. Shaw, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Four hundred and thirty=nine.

496 Joseph Tuckerman of New York, ^^{Care Henry T. Tuckerman, 57 West Tenth St} Son=in=law of Henry H. Tuckerman, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Four hundred and ninety=six.

579 Lyman Beecher of Boston, ^^{5 State St}, Son of Katherine E. Beecher, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Five hundred and Seventy=nine.

940 George H. Doyle of Boston, ^^{108 High St} Brother=in=law of W^m W. Smith, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Nine hundred and forty.

1010 William S. Leland of ^^{Walnut Av.} Boston H., Grandson of Sherman Leland, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered One thousand and ten.

1117 William W. Carruth of Newton, ^^{b. 47 Sears Building Boston} Son of Francis S. Carruth, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Eleven hundred & seventeen.