Mount Auburn Cemetery

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May 20 [187]6

Mr. A.A. Barker

Dear Sir

On and after this date, all brick graves will be built with a brick bottom, unless specially ordered built in some other manner by the Proprietor.

When built without brick bottom you will notify this office of the fact and circumstances.

Yours &c J.W. Lovering Sup.^t per Childs

May 20 [187]6

Mr. C. B. Raymond Trustee Lot 1994

Dear Sir

Your valued order on this lot was received this morn.

The bills for care &c, are rendered about Oct. 1^st, usually but, as you direct us to send the bill before June 15^th I enclose it herewith so that you may consult your own convenience as to the time of payment.

Very Respectfully J.W. Lovering Sup.^t per Childs

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Com^ee appoin^d to effect removal of tomb on Snowberry Path _

Mr Cheever stated the desirableness of effecting the removal of the lot and tomb no. 577 Snowberry Path, and lot no. 588 upon the same path, belonging respectively to Benjamin Blaney and Samuel D. Ward, and suggesting the appointment of a Committee for the purpose: _

Upon Motion of Mr Read, Voted to refer the matter to the Committee on Grounds.

Special Deed in Trust authorized _

An application was made by Charles W. Storey, Executor of the will of the late Matthias P. Sawyer, for the issuing of a deed of a lot containing two thousand square feet in the following special terms: _

..."in consideration of $1000 paid by Cha^s W. Storey, Executor of the last will of Matthias Plant Sawyer, late of Boston, Merchant, deceased _ .

At the request of said Storey, to Curtis B. Raymond of Boston, merchant _ ....in trust to permit the body of the said Sawyer and such suitable monument as said Storey shall select to be deposited and to remain undisturbed forever in and upon the said lot, and to use the said lot for the purposes of a burial ground for the families of said Raymond and his heirs in such manner as he or they may from time to time see fit not inconsistent with said trust, nor with the terms of these presents." _

Upon motion of Mr Gould.

Voted that said deed in the form above stated be approved. _

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procured of the Cambridge Water Works, stated that the Committee were unable to report on the subject. _

Price of land west of Chapel _ Unfinished _

The President for the Committee upon Grounds, to which was referred the question _ What price shall be charged for land westerly of the chapel upon and adjoining the land lately filled up, stated that the Committee were not prepared to report.

Loring A. M.'s Purchase & Improv^t of Meadow Pond _

Also, upon the application of Mrs. A. M. Loring to purchase land at the head of Meadow Pond, that the Committee had accepted her proposal, the land had been conveyed to her, and improvements had been made by stoning around a part of the pond: _

Tomb & Lots of Blaney & Ward _ Removal _

That they had effected the removal of tombs and lots upon Snowberry Path, _ those of Messrs Benjamin Blaney and Samuel L. Ward, owning respectively lots numbered 577. and 588. these gentlemen having accepted lots upon Primrose Path.

New Path to Raymond Lot _

That they had laid out a path from Moss Path to Lot numbered 1994, that of Curtis B. Raymond, upon the suggestion made by the Committee on lots and referred to them at the last meeting. _

And their report was accepted. _

New Mayflower Path _ Old discontinu^d

Dr. Bigelow, to whom was referred the subject of naming a short path between the two branches of Elm Avenue, reported, that he had given the same the name of Mayflower Path, agreeably to the request of

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[Report of Com^ee on Grounds, on Improving, filling up] & grading unsold lands _

of which report the following is a copy. _

"That the Committee on Grounds be instructed to expend one thousand dollars per annum in grading and improving the unsold parts of the land within the Cemetery, and that the earth removed by this process be applied towards filling up the superflous ponds and hollows in the grounds.

Embellishing with oramental trees _

That the same Committee be authorized this year to introduce ornamental trees and shrubs into suitable parts of the ground, at a cost not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Constructing Drain through Indian Ridge _

That the same Committee be authorized, if they deem it expedient, to construct a drain through Indian Ridge, from Garden Pond to Meadow Pond, so arranging the banks made by cutting this drain, that they may hereafter be used for constructing catacomb tombs; the outlay not to exceed one thousand dollars."_

The President being called away Mr Read was called to the Chair.

Upon motion of Mr Curtis, the following vote was passed.

Path laid out as a branch of Moss Path to Raymond Lot _

"Whereas C. W. Storey Esq. Executor of the late M. P. Sawyer has purchased a lot of land containing three hundred square feet, in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, situated between Moss Path opposite to Central Square and the Northerly side of the lot of C. B. Raymond, Trustee, numbered 1994, for the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, for the purpose of making a way to said lot numbered 1994, – and whereas said lot is wider than is necessary for