Mount Auburn Cemetery

Boston June 10, 1862 Mrs. C. P. Sumner

Dear Madam,

I have communicated your request to have your lot taken care of for the present year; Mr. W^m H. Spooner Jr., the Gardener, will take charge of the same for ($3) three dollars. I was requested by the lady who called yesterday to return this information.

Very truly yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y Mt Auburn

Boston June 4, 1862 Geo. W^m Bond Esq Treas^r

Dear Sir,

At the meeting of the Trustees of Mount Auburn June 2^d 1862, the following votes were passed;-

"That the Committee on Grounds be authorized to raise the upper part of the Lawn one & a half feet higher than it has already been raised, and at an expense not exceeding $500.-"

That the Committee on Grounds be authorized to complete the Receiving Tomb now in progress, or a part thereof, as they think proper, at an expense not exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars. ($3,500).-

That the Treasurer be authorized to pay to Mr Spooner the amt of said Spooner's note to Jona. Mann, amtg. to $250 and interest, being one of the votes secured by the mortgage of the Greenhouse now owned by the Trustees, upon the said note being deliver [?} the Treas- canceled." [?]

that more land has been enclosed than the proprietor is entitiled to, to require him or her to remove the fence from the land trespassed on. They do not necessarily exercise that right, unless the trespass is injurious to the Corporation or to some other proprietor.

In this case, the space between your lot and Mr Bradford's, by reason of this Encroachment, is too narrow at the rear end of the lots: and I am instructed by the Committee on Lots to notify you that they expect the obstruction to be removed. This they have the right to require of the proprietor at his or her own expense. Under certain circumstances, perhaps they would authorize it to be done at the expense of the Corporation. I should like to confer with you on the subject at an early day.

Very resp.y yours A.J. Coolidge

Boston, Oct. 6. 1862 Mr W^m. H. Spooner

Dear Sir,

The Trustees, this day voted to accede to your request so far as relates to your resignation as Gardener is concerned: And that the Treas ^r be authorized to cancel the case with you upon a full settlement of all accounts amounts due from you to the Corporation, and upon a surrender, by you, in good order, of the leased premises.

Truly yours A. J. Coolidge Sec.y Mt Auburn

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Boston, Oct. 6 1862

Capt. D.L. Winsor Esq. Sup^t [?]

Dear Sir,-

The Trustees of Mount Auburn today chose James Derby, Jr. as Gatekeeper for the remainder of Mr. Safford's year---upon a salary of four hundred dollars.

It was also voted, "[?] the additional sum of 75 dlr per week be paid him to enable him to compensate a substitute whom he shall procure to him from his duties as Gatekeep one half of every Sabbath. Said substitute must (in the judgment of the Committee on Interments and the Superindent) be as [?] and competent as Mr. Derby.

The Trustees also adopted the recommendation of the Special Com^ee upon Mr. Spooner's communication-in termsto accede to Mr. Spooner's his relinquishment of the office of Gardener, and that the Treaurer be authorized to cancel the lease with Mr. Spooner, upon a full settlement of all amounts due the Corporation from Mr. Spooner, and a surrender by him in good order of the leased premises:-

that the office of Gardener be abolished, and that the care and superintendence of lots be committed to the Superintendent in such manner and under such directions as the Trustees shall prescribe.

The carrying out the above orders was committed to Messrs Andrews, Rand & Cheever (the old Com^ee) with power to make such purchases and arragements as may be necessary in the premises.

Truly yours, A. Coolidge Sec.y

Only on a [?]be made of the late fee for substitute on the Sabbath as he produces [?] from the payment of.-

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Safford T. H.	3.	Sales, H. W.,	409
Sawin Nathl D.	7	Shedd, Mr.	424.
Shedd Mrs V.A.	8	Simpson, Robert	455
Sanderson Mrs Ede	20	Stearns, A.C.	456
Safford De Forrest	21
Silsbee, Nathaniel	52
Spooner Wm H.	64.
Sumner Mrs. C.P.	61
Shimmin C.F.	100, 168 174.
Snow H.A.	111
Shedd & Edson	112, 148, 186 206 252
Stevens H.G.	124
Safford, Wm H.	124 141 271 303 307 308 313
Spring Grove	147.
Sturtevant John D.	154
Stearns Josiah O.	169
Stone Wm W.	180, 411.
Savell, Chas E.	196
Superintendent of Cemetery	204
Smith F. & Son	261, 266, 375.
Stevenson, J. T.	274.
Southwick, John P.	283
Shedd, J.H.	289 303, 372, 472
Southwick Mrs John	290
Sawyer Amos	319
Simmons John	331
Spring, Isaac H.	332
Southack Geo P.	336, 364
Singleton, T.C.	340
Shute, Jas. M.,	343
Silsbee, Nathl,	349
Safford, F.M.,	362
Stimson, A.G.	382

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[Treasurer's Annual Report _ continued]

For Interest on money borrowed	1.40
To A. J. Coolidge for salary & office rent	950.00
For notes of Wm H. Spooner Jr. for Greenhouse assumed by Corporation, without interest and expenses	1.050.83
To D. L. Winsor, Superintendent,	1.141.50
" [To] Geo. Wm Bond, Treasurer	800.00
" [To] Mass. Hosp. Life Ins. Co for 1/5 of gross sales	6461.80
" [To] Mass. Hort. Soc.y for proportion of sales of 1864 & Intermt in Public Lots 1863 & 1864	7.719.49
" [To] $5.000 U. S. 5/20 Bonds	5.028.10
Remaining in his hands	1.896.38
___	___	74.092.79

He has received for Fund for Repairs:

For New Endowments	3.760.00
" [For] Notes Receivable	4.800.00
" [For] 8 Shares Fitchburg Railroad, sold	997.60
" [For] Income of Investments	1.086.20
Balance January 1.	475.58
" [Balance] due Corporation, Jany. 1 1865	654.46
___	___	$11.773.84

He has paid for said account:

For Stone work to Lot 313	315.00
" [For] Care of Lots,	570.60
" [For] Certificates of Indebtedness, $7.000	6.827.50
" [For] Interest due on same	6.81
" [For] $3000 5% 20 U.S. Bonds	3.031.20
" Temporary Loan to United States	800.00
" Geo. Wm Bond for ½ per ct. on Investments for '63-64	222.73
___	___	$11.773.84

Boston Dec^r 31. 1864 Geo. W^m Bond, Treasurer