Mount Auburn Cemetery

did not ask to have it taken from the $14. but paid it to R.B.S. -- When R.B.S. brought the bill of $6.00 for care of lot for 1867, (Mr B. not having then rec^d anything back of his $14.00) asked R.B.S. if this should not come out: to which Safford assented, and then promised to take good care of his lot for 1868 also for $8.00, and that then the 6.00 & 8.00 would square the account. He therefore asks to pay the 1868 bill in this way. --

I find however (whether correct or not) on the cash book of Treas^r and also on R.B.S.'s list, that the $6. for 1867 was p^d Dec^r 18, 1867. -- Unless that should have been credited to some other person, & Mr Burge's story is correct, we shall still owe him after this last year's bill is settled.

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge

The following is the vote adopted by the Trustees at the last meeting --

"Voted -- That the practice of charging for land in case of a second interment in a public lot be abolished, and that the by laws relating to interments be so amended as to substitute further clause --

"Where more than one interment is made in the same grave, the last shall be at least three feet below the surface of the ground," the following --

"Not more than two interments shall be made in the same grave, the latter of which shall be at least three feet below the surface of the ground."

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

June 18, 1869

Please show ^^{or state} this to the Gatekeeper & undertaker --

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