Mount Auburn Cemetery

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The subscribers, being Proprietors of lots in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, hereby signify their assent to the Act of the Legislature passed the thirty first day of March AD. eighteen hundred & thirty five, entitled an Act to incorporated the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn.— Dated April 21 1835.

Names	Names
John P Thorndike	Benjamin F. White	M Davis
Caleb Curtis	Chas. Barnard.	Joseph W Story
Henry J. Howe	Abel Adams	Isaac Parker
	Rob G Shaw	Saml Whitwell
Richard Fletcher	John Henshaw	Jacob Bigelow
Zeb Cook Jr	S. G. Williams	Charles Tappan
Robert Farley		Charles Brown.
B. B. Grant	Francis Watts	Charles P. Curtis.
Samuel R. Coolidge	Thomas Davis	John Farrar
Elisha Haskell	G. W. Pratt.	John C. Gray.
Oliver Eldredge	Andrew T. Hall	Saml Appleton
	Jas. T Buckingham	James Read
Henry H. Fuller.-		B. A. Gould
James Boyd	Chs. W. Foster	George Bond
C Frederick Adams	Francis J. Oliver	Aa Baldwin
Charles Scudder	Jas. Savage	Henry Lienow
Charles B. Shaw	Levi Bartlett	Robt Waterston
Elijah Cobb	Nathaniel Praxam	Amos Lawrence
	Henry Edwards	Abbott Lawrence
Tho. Motley	John Tappan.	Wm. W. Stone
J Martin	J. R. Ames?	Henry Rice
	Henry B. Stone	J Binney

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-ly reported as follows,

Whole number of Votes 492.

Necessary to a choice	- 247 -
Jacob Bigelow had	- 491
George W. Crockett " [had]	- 492
Charles P. Curtis " [had]	- 478.
Benj. A. Gould " [had]	- 492.
Andrew T. Hall " [had]	- 371.
George H. Kuhn. " [had]	- 492.
Charles C. Little " [had]	- 492.
James Read. " [had]	- 492.
Mace Tisdale " [had]	- 400.
Isaiah Bangs " [had]	- 391.
and were elected.	----
Isaac Parker had	-119-
L. Hosmer " [had]	-12-
Peleg Sprague " [had]	-2-
Lucius R. Paige " [had]	-2.-
Ebenezer Francis " [had]	-1.-
William Sturgis " [had]	-1.-
Gardner Brewer " [had]	-1.-
H. G. Clark " [had]	-1.-
J. C. Chaffin " [had]	-1-
and were not elected.	---

Voted. That the Trustees be requested to cause a correct edition of the catalogue to be published and furnished to the proprietors including the names of the Proprietors up to the present time.

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Vacancies

-ed meeting on any vacancies now existing in the offices of the corporation, and on a general plan defining the duties of the present and future officers.

Voted. That said committee consist of Messrs Bangs Read and Little.

Com^ee on Lots.

the Trustees then proceded to the election of a Committee of Lots for the ensuing year, by ballot and Messrs Bigelow, C. P. Curtis and Bangs were elected.

Finance, Com^ee - Auditor -

Messrs Gould and Little were elected a committee on finance for the ensuing year. Mr Kuhn was elected auditor of accounts for the year.

S't^adg. Com^ee on Grounds &c.

Voted. That the committee of three already appointed on motion of Mr Read, also consider the expediency of establishing a standing committee of three on grounds avenues & paths and to prescribe their duties and powers, reporting on this subject at the adjourned meeting.

Statuary Otis

Voted. That the President, Jacob Bigelow, be instructed and authorized in the name and behalf of this Corporation to contract with some suitable artist, to be selected by him, for a statue of James Otis in marble, the cost of which shall not exced five thousand dollars.

Winthrop omitted by mistake? Adams.

Voted. That the President Jacob Bigelow be instructed and authorized in the name and behalf of this Corporation to contract with some suitable artist to be selected by him, for a statue of John Adams, in marble, the cost of which shall not exceed five thousand dollars.

A. T. Hall.

A letter was read from Andrew T. Hall. Esqr.

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Trustees April 2. 1855

The regular monthly meeting of the Trustees was holden, agreeably to the usual notice, on the Second day of April A.D. Eighteen hundred &fifty five at the Office of C. P. Curtis Esq. at 12 M. _

Present, Messrs Bigelow, Bangs, Curtis, Gould, Read & Tisdale.

The Record of the last meeting was read and approved.

Inexpedient to fill vacancy in Trustees.

Voted,, that, whereas Mr Hall has declined to accept a place on the Board of Trustees to which he was elected in February last, _ it is inexpedient to fill the vacancy thereby created during the present year.

Future place of Meeting - referred to Mr Curtis and the Sec^y_

Mr Curtis stated that he had understood that the meetings of the Trustees were in future to be held at the Office of the Secretary & it was accordingly

Voted,, that the question of the future place of meeting be referred to Mr Curtis & the Secretary, & that the Seretary [sic] be authorized to call future meetings either at Mr Curtis's or his own office, as shall meet the wishes of Mr Curtis. __

Adjourned A true record Attest Austin J. Coolidge Secretary

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Lot 2222

Andrew T. Hall of Boston, guardian of minor children of late David W. Horton to represent his lot no. 2222.

Lots 2233 & 2234

John T. Kendall of Boston, son of late Sewall Kendall to represent his Lot 2233|lots. nos. 2233]] & 2234.

[Lot] 2269

John T. Bradlee of Boston, son of late John R. Bradlee to represent his lot no. 2269.

[Lot] 2278

W^m H. Taft of E. Douglas, guardian of minor children of late John Somes to represent his lot no. 2278.

The Meeting was then Adjourned Attest A. J. Coolidge. Secretary.

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Trustees May 4. 1857

The regular monthly meeting of the Trustees was held at the usual place on Monday, May 4^th at 10 O'clock A. M. _

There were present, the President, Messrs Cheever, Crocker, Curtis, M^cKean, Nazro and Tisdale = 7. _

The records of the last monthly meeting and the adjournment thereof were read. _

Lands west of Chapel _ Price of _

Upon Motion of Mr Curtis, Chairman of Com^ee on Lots,

Voted that the inquiry by Mr Mann, the