Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Gardener.

and Robert L. Emmons be a committee to employ a Gardener for one year at a salary not exceeding two hundred sixty dollars.-

Voted that the building on the grounds be placed at the disposal of the Gardener, till further ordered

Com^ee to purchase land.

Voted that Mr Brimmer be a Committee to contract for a parcel of land lying on the West side of the grounds, containing about 4-1/2 acres, at a price not exceeding $_0,00, subject to the approval of the Horticultural Society - provided funds can be obtained by loan or otherwise without encroaching on the funds now in the Treasury Charles P. Curtis, Sec^y

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Aug 10. 1832

At a meeting of the Garden & Cemetery Committee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, held August 10^th, 1832, present, General Dearborn, D^r Bigelow, and Mess^r Brimmer, Bond, Gould & Everett-

Superintendant.

Voted that General Dearborn be joined to the Committee on the appointment of a Superintendant and Gardener;

Dwelling & Office for Superint^t

Voted that Gen. Dearborn, Mr Brimmer & D^r Bigelow be a Committee to remove the barn (on the estate of Mount Auburn,) and fit up the fence for a dwelling & office for the Superintendant & Gardener, provided the expense does not exceed five hundred dollars--

Charles P. Curtis Secretary