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FIFTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT.

The Trustees herewith submit to the proprietors the *fifty-sixth
annual report.

The usual details of the operations of the cemetery are fully given
in the reports of the Superintendent and the Treasurer, herewith
submitted.

It will be seen that the various funds have increased, as fol-
lows : —

The addition to the Repair fund is $33,821.46, and that fund
now amounts to $530,473.71. It should be remembered that the
Repair fund is not to be regarded as an asset of the Corporation.
The full amount is estimated to be balanced by the obligations
which have been assumed for the perpetual care of the lots and
monuments.

The Permanent fund has increased $6,964.69, and amounts to
$271,368.75.

* Mount Auburn Cemetery was consecrated by public religious exercises on Satur-
day, Sept. 24, 1831. Its first four years were spent under the auspices of the
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and its affairs were managed by a committee
of that body, called the ‘‘ Cemetery and Garden Committee,” who duly reported their
doings to the parent society. April 25, 1835, the act incorporating the proprietors
of the cemetery of Mount Alburn was accepted, and the proprietors proceeded to
organize by the choice of the following nine Trustees: Joseph Story, Samuel
Appleton, George Bond, Jacob Bigelow, Benjamin A. Geuld, Charles Brown, Charles
P. Curtis, James Read, and Joseph P. Bradlee. Subsequently Hon. Joseph Story
was chosen President, George Bond, Esq., Treasurer, and Benjamin R. Curtis, Esq.,
Secretary. Their first report was made in 1886 and copied on the records. This
report was made orally, as were all subsequent reports until the year 1856, when
the series of printed reports commenced. This, therefore, including the years
passed under the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, is the report for the fifty-
sixth year.