Mount Auburn Cemetery

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There are invested & in the Treasury as per annexed Trial Balance $31853.80 Showing an increase of $1648.86 from last year, from the proceeds of Sales & from income on Investments, after paying Mess Oct Rogers & Co $4785 in part pay for the new Gateway & to others $801.02 for Iron fence & other improvements

The number of Lots sold during the year is 76

The Superintendant reports the following Interments & Improvements to wit;

Interments this year	236	whole number	1866
Tombs built " [this] " [year]	9	" [whole] " [number]	204
Monuments Erecd " [this] " [year]	27	" [whole] " [number]	214
Lots Sodded " [this] " [year]	80
do [Lots] Fenced " [this] " [year]	40

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Trial Balance 12^th Year 1843

Tomb under Park St. Church	200.--	Public Lot	576.--
Cemetery	50146.04	Proprietors Fund	76761.17
Cash	1115.90	Donations for Chapel &/e	100.--
Sales 12th Year	32.33	E. F. Bunnell	25.--
Stock in New England Bank	1200.--	Octavius T Rogers & Co	4750.--
" [Stock] " [in] Hamilton do [Bank]	2000.--	Rufus Howe Supt.	20.--
" [Stock] " [in] Shawmut do [Bank]	2500.--
" [Stock] " [in] Boston & Lowell R.R. Road	3000.--
" [Stock] " [in] Stark Mills	4000.--
" [Stock] " [in] Boston & Prove R Road	2000.--
" [Stock] " [in] Eastern do [R Road]	2000.--
" [Stock] " [in] Eastern N.H. do [R Road]	2000.--
" [Stock] " [in] Portland Saco &	___
Portsmouth do [R Road]	2000.--
" [Stock] " [in] Merchants Bank	2500.--
" [Stock] " [in] State do [Bank]	780.--
" [Stock] " [in] National Inse Co.	1000.--
" [Stock] " [in] Union Bank	2000.--
Loan to Portd Saco & Portsh	757.90	___
United States 6% Loan	3000.-	___	________
___	$82232.17	___	$82232.17

This certifies that I have examined the Treasurers Accounts for the year past & find them well vouched & correctly cast, that the balance in his hands is Eleven hundred & fifteen 90/100 Dollars & that he has exhibited to me the evidence of Stocks belonging to the Corpor=ation as appears by the preceding Trial Balance of his Books

Boston Feby 2^ond 1844 B.A. Gould

Auditor of Accts to Propr^rs of Mt Auburn

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[Bro't forward.]	$28.321.63.

He has paid as follows. to wit;

To Octavius T. Rogers & Co balance of a/c for gateway	4750.--
" [To] Sundry persons for expenses of which about	___
$15.000 was for fence, and a large sum for expense of drawing	18.917.86.
For 6 shares in the Merchants Bank.	600.--
To the Treasurer of the Mass. Horticultural Society	___
for 1/4 net sales	3350.81
" [To] Parker Wilder & Parker for interest on	___
money borrowed of them	19.98
Balance in the Treasurers	682.98	$26.321.63

Errors Expected. Boston December 31. 1844. Geo. W^m Bond. Treas^r

There are invested & in the Treasury as per annexed Trial Balance $29.362.90 being a reduction of only $1490.82 from last year notwithstanding the large outlay of nearly $21.500 for Gateway Fence & draining the Cemetery owing to the liberal donations in aid of these improvements & to the great increase in sales consequent in part thereon, which is a result far better than the most sanguine dared to hope for.

The number of lots sold during the past year is 150.

The Superintendant reports the following interments and improvements, to wit:

Interments in the past year.	263.	Whole number	2129
Tombs built	4	" [Whole] " [number]	208
Monuments erected	35	" [Whole] " [number]	249
Lots sodded	110
do [Lots] enclosed with fences or hedges	70.