Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Jany 24 [187]6

Joseph Collins Esq Gardener.

Dear Sir,

Oh and after Feb'y 1^st, I shall expect you to keep the time of all men employed in your department. M^cDonald & Curtin will divide the Sunday work, once when extra men are needed the other men at greenhouses will divide it, also without any extra pay for Sundays, when the need stay only so long as may be necessary to take proper care of the plants.

None of the men on your book, will hereafter attend the gate or interments on Sundays, as I shall make other provision for that, and when the force is increased in the spring, you will allow no man except tho his greenhouse men M^cDonald & Curtin, and the gardener's teamster Mr. Collins, for any days when it is too wet to work except by special arrangement with me. I expect you to dismiss your men working in the grounds, whenever it is too wet to work for the advantage of the corporation, without regard to whether the other formen's men are working or not.

The weekly reports at the end of the month should show the same total number of days, which your time book shows, and you will be charged with as many days as are on your time book.