Mount Auburn Cemetery

124.

[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.