1870-10-12 Trustee Committee on Grounds, 1831.033.003-028

Boston October 12^th 1870.

- The Committee on Grounds beg leave to report that they have attended to the various duties assigned them and recommend -

1 - That the lot of Mrs. Sarah J. Lock & the adjacent Lot of Samuel S. Osgood, be raised so as to restore the natural drainage, the obstruction having been caused by the authority of this board -

2 - That no Tombs hereafter be erected on the Southerly side of Hazel Dell, and that the plan presented by the Superintendent for grading (the land on the other sides of) the same be adopted, and the same be carried out under the direction of Mess^rs Livermore & J.T. Bradlee -

3 - In regard to the new Receiving Tomb, they have directed the Superintendent to furnish an estimate of the Expense of finishing the Vestibule and two Compartments, and they report progress -

4 - In regard to the Lots of Edward Palgemy - er and others, they have directed the Sup^t. to furnish a prospective plan for improving the tract

of land between Lavender, Myrtle and Hazel Paths, and Chestnut Avenue, which the Committee will at some future time lay before the Board.

5. - Upon the Application of the Commissioners of the Cambridge Cemetery for the purchase of a part of the Stone Meadow Lot on Coolidge Avenue, they recommend a sale to the City of Cambridge of a strip of the said land measuring seven feet^^{2 inches} on Coolidge Avenue, and 31 ft. in the rear containing 10,420 square feet at the rate of 12 1/2 cents per foot. -

- The Committee further report that the purchase of the Coolidge Estate is inexpedient, and they ask further time in regard to the purchase of the land on the Westerly side of the Cemetery, and of the Buckley Estate on Coolidge Avenue -

- They also report that it is inexpedient at the present time to remove the Engine House & its appurtenances to the Stone Meadow. -

For the Committee

Jacob Bigelow Ch

Report of Committee on Grounds on various subjects: accepted, & ordered to be place^d on file October 12^th, 1870 - (V=29=30.) Amended, November 9^th, 1870 (V=33)