Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Trustees July 7, 1856.

The regular monthly meeting of the Trustees was held at the usual place on Monday the seventh day of July A. D. 1856, at 10 o'clock AM.

There were present, the President, & Messrs Bangs, Cheever, Crocker, Lawrence, McKean, Nazro, Read & Tisdale. _

The records of the last monthly & the special meetings were read._

Appropⁿ for Supt^s House increased

Mr Cheever, chairman of the building committee of the house for Superintendent, having, at the special meeting on the 24^th of June asked an increase of $500 to the appro- priation therefor, so that the sum limited may be $4,000 instead of $3500 as before ordered, (see p. 77) and the same having thereupon been informally assented to, _ it was now

Voted that the appropriation for erecting the Super- intendent's house, exclusive of the foundation, be increased from $3500 to $4000. ~

Lot 2359 _ Representative designated

The Secretary presented the petiton of Edward Belknap, executor & Trustee under the will of the late John Belknap, proprietor of lot numbered 2359, for the appointment of Mrs Mary Belknap of Boston, widow of said John, as representative of the aforesaid lot. _

Voted that the petition be granted. _

Lot 989 _ Representative of designated _

The Secretary also presented the petition of the widow & heirs at law of Job Kent, late proprietor of lot numbered 989, that W^m H. Kent of Boston, one of the heirs at law,