1869-02-08 Letter: Coolidge to Trustees, 2021.021.022

Mount Auburn Cemetery. 16 PEMBERTON SQUARE, Boston, Feby 8, 1869

To the Trustees of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn: --

Gentlemen: --

The undersigned respectfully requests the Board to consider the propriety of increasing the compensation of Secretary & Treasurer for the last fiscal year, and to make such increase for the current year as they may think just and proper. --

Very Respectfully

A.J. Coolidge

Please turn --

Boston, Feby. 9th 1869.

At a meeting of the Trustees held on this date, communications from the Secretary and Gatekeepers respecting increase of salary were referred to a special Com^ee consisting of

Messrs Norcross Bowditch & Bigelow

and they were chosen a Com^ee to consider and report upon the whole subject of salaries at an adj^t meeting, to be called by this Com^ee when ready to report --

Voted also to refer to said Com^ee the Comⁿ & estimate of the Sup^t on the subject of cost & profit of gardeners & greenhouse.

Attest A.J. Coolidge Sec.y