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Trustees.

Pursuant to notices issued in the usual manner by the Secretary the Trustees met on the seventeenth day of June A.D. 1848 at 12 o'clock M. at the office of C.P. Curtis Esqr Boston; present Messrs Crockett B.R. Curtis, C.P. Curtis Gould, Gray, Isaac Parker and Read.

The Secretary not being present Mr Isaac Parker was chosen Secretary pro tem. C.P. Curtis Esqr was chosen Chairman. The record of the last meeting was read

Chapel

Mr Read on behalf of the Committee on repairs and the furnishing of the Chapel reported in part, that the platform and other preparations had be provided, the seats had been agreed upon and were in preparation, and that the plans were being prepared for the other articles, also that the roof had been repaired. It was stated that near the eaves but one course of slate had been put on where there should have been two, that this error had been corrected and that it was now believed that the roof was tight.

Deed to a Trustee authorized.

On the application of Edward D. Sohier Esq^r who is the Executor of the will of Phineas Blair deceased, _ it appearing that the deceased requested said Sohier to inter his remains in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn and appropriated a sum of money, for that purpose. Voted. that the Treasurer and Secretary be authorized to issue a deed to said Sohier as Trustee under the will of Phineas Blair.

Lot. 758.

The Committee on the application of E.P. Clark for the correction of an error in his deed by altering the word Pilgrim to Snow-drop reported that the word Pilgrim was inserted by mistake Mr Clark's lot not being on that path, but on Snow-drop path - where upon Ordered

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Lot 758. Plan to be altered.

A letter from Mr Howe, made it known that it appeared from an examination of the ground plan of the Cemetery that number 758, had been used twice. Thereupon Voted - That the surveyor be authorized to erase one, and substitute another, approved by the Committee on lots, to be in unison with the deeds.

J H Monroe [sic] & A. Stewart petition for purchase of small Lots to be paid for in labor - without choice money

Mr Howe's letter also preferred the request of John H. Munroe and Andrew Stewart, two men who have been in the employ of the Corporation for the last four years, and who have selected each a remnant lot of 110 or 120 square feet each and both of whom have buried children, that they may be exempted from the payment of choice money for said lots, and may pay for them in labor. Voted, that this application be referred to the Committee on Lots with full powers.

Lots. 1080. & 1081. Perpetual Repair of.

Mr Tisdale presented a communication from himself and Mr S. K. Hewins, the proprietors of lots 1080 and 1081 particularly describing those lots and the adjoining land owned by them, and asking the Trustees to fix a sum to be immediately paid to the Treasurer, in consideration of which the said lots and grounds shall be forever kept, preserved, ornamented and repaired in the manner set forth in said communication, so that they may be forever secured in their good condition _ Referred to the Committee on Lots.

Adjourned. A true record Attest, Henry M. Parker Secretary