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proceed with the erection from year to year until the whole is completed accor ding to the state of the funds. They also suggest that on the three other sides it is

Hedge

expedient to plant a ^^living hedge fence of buckthorn or some other suitable shrub on the inside of the present fence; believing that in a few years in this way a very handsome & permanent hedge may be thus obtained at a comparitively trifling expense.

Purchase of Land

Third. The com^ee also recommend the purchase, if it can be obtained upon reasonable terms of ten or twelve acres of land upon the western and southern side of the grounds at Mount Auburn continguous to the present fence as a suitable enlargement of the premises & also as giving a better permanent boundary. Upon traversing the land they found it well suited to the purposes of the Cemetery.

New Lots.

Fourth. The com^ee also recommended the adoption of the recent plan of Waldo Higginson laying out the lots at the South Eastern part of Mount Auburn & to have a suitable number of trees planted & seeds sown there to insure a good growth of ^^forest trees in the

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Trustees.

At a meeting of the Trustees of Mount Auburn holden at the Cemetery April 24. 1844. Present Messrs Story Bigelow Reed, Brimmer and Crocket it was voted.

Site of Chapel

That the site of the Chapel about to be built should be on a spot surveyed by Mr Higginson for that purpose, near Cypress and Pine Avenues.

That the Trustees will purchase if they can obtain

Purchase of Lots.

them on reasonable terms one or more of the lots numbered 88 - 699 - 700 & 446 for an entrance way to the Chapel.

Price of Lots.

That the term during which the new lots may be sold for $80 be extended to the first day of Au-gust next.

Pursuant to a notice issued by the Secretary, a meeting of the Trustees of Mount Auburn was holden at the office of C. P. Curtis on May 21. 1844 at nine o'clock in the morning. Presents Messrs Story, Bigelow, C. P. Curtis. B. R Curtis Brimmer Gould, Reed, and Crockett.

Grading the Town Road.

Voted. That the committee who have in charge the erection of the iron fence, be authorized to apply to the proper town authorities in Cambridge and Watertown for leave to grade the main road in front of the Cemetery at a Section where it interfered with the construction of said fence.

Com^ee on building

Mr Brimmer was excused from serving on the Committee on building and Mr Reed was chosen to serve in his place.

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April 6^th [18]80

Waldo Higginson Esq

Dear Sir

To enclose your lot with posts and chain will require, I find, 30 feet of enclosure on the front side on Indian Ridge Path, and if only the more level land is enclosed, 20 feet on the North side and 10 feet on the South side, making in all 60 feet.

I should place the posts every ten feet, and leave an entrance on Indian Ridge Path. In each of these posts would be upright iron rods from which the chain would be suspended. The cost of the whole including painting, and a woodbases at each post would be $35⁰⁰.

I will let you know tomorrow in regard to the perpetual care of the lot.

Yrs very truly J.W. Lovering

The subscribers appointed as a committee of the Trustees of Mount Auburn, to inquire and report on the practicability of introducing water into the grounds of the Corporation, respectfully reports.

That they have employed Mr Waldo Higginson as a surveyor to take the levels between the surface of Fresh Pond and that of different places in Mount Auburn and the intervening land, and have obtained from him the following results

The surface of Fresh pond at its ordinary summer level is about one foot above that of the tide at high water

The water in the meadow west of the gate was found July 27^th to be eight feet 35/100 above the level of Fresh pond; and the level of Garden pond six feet and 85/100 above the level of Fresh pond

Two methods are practicable, by which the water of Fresh pond may be conveyed within the inclosure of Mount Auburn

1. The water may be raised by a steam engine, or other power, to a reservoir on

some eminence near Fresh pond, from whence it may be conducted in pipes, or in a channel, through the next eligible part of the intervening land to Mount Auburn - The expense of erecting and keeping in repair the machinery necessary to afford a considerable stream of water, together with the other parts of the construction, would probably be found so great as to prevent the Trustees from entertaining this project.

2. A deep channel might be cut, a foot or more below the level of Fresh pond, passing through the intermediate ridge to J. Wyeths meadow, and entering the cemetery a few roads west of the gate, thence passing through Garden & Meadow ponds, and crossing in its way Central avenue and Indian ridge, and terminating in the salt marsh southereasterly from Mount Auburn.

The expense of such a work according to the accompanying estimates of Mr Higginson is as follows

Cost of excavation from Fresh Pond to M^T Auburn inclusion of crossing Wyeths meadow & Watertown road $4,194.

Cost of excavation through M^t Auburn & thence to Charles river marsh - - - 2064.

Continguous & superintend - - - 313.

Total cost by Mr Higginsons estimate $6571.

To which may be added $700. in case a stone culvert is laid through Mr J.C. Grays ridge, -1400 and $700 as a conjectured estimate for land

Total $7971.