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Oct. 1, 1888.

Geo. S. Hale, Esq., Boston.

Dear Sir:-

Your note is received. The rent for the deposit of the remains of Noble Maxwell in our tomb is paid until Oct. 15th.

Please sign the enclosed order filling in the day and hour when you wish the removal to take place, and return the order to me giving at least 24 hours notice. At the present season the office is open from 8 A.M. until about 5 P.M., but if convenient it would be advisable to make the removal in the forenoon.

If the body is to be removed to a lot in this cemetery the location of the grave in the lot will have to be given beforehand. If it is to be removed to another cemetery a permit will have to be obtained from the clerk of the Board of Health of the town of Watertown.

Respectfully yours,

Supt.

March 29. 5 [1865]

Geo. S. Hale Esq -- Ex^or &c.

Dear Sir,

The Committee on Lots have instructed me to notify you that they will contract, subject to the approval of the Trustees, for the perpetual care and preservation of lot no. 1397 belonging to the estate of the late Solomon Sargent, for four hundred dollars; and of that lot together with 1398, belonging to Thomas Stearns -- being in one enclosure -- for seven hundred dollars.

I am Respectfully

Your Ob^t Serv.^t

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

March 29 5 [1865]

J.C. Converse Esq^re

Dear Sir,

The Committee on Lots have instructed me to notify you that they are ready to contract with, subject to the approval of the Trustees, for the perpetual care and preservation of lot no 726 belonging to the estate of the late Catherine Peabody, on payment of four hundred and fifty dollars.

If their terms are satisfactory, I will prepare the papers for you. --

Respectfully

Your Ob^t Serv^t

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

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248 Maria Perabean of New York, daughter of Jacob Bender, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 248;

1397 George S. Hale of Boston, trustee under the will of Solomon Sargent, deceased prop^r of lot numbered 1397;

1627 Irwin R. Cheney of Boston, eldest son of Gustavus Cheney, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1627;

3379 Lucy R. Stedman of Boston, widow of Charles H. Stedman, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 3379.

Petition of Hannah D. Hammond for leave to remove bodies from Lot no. 1000

A petition was presented signed by Hannah D. wife of Nath^l K. Hammond, proprietor of lot numbered 1000, representing that her husband left this part of the country many years since and had not been heard from for thirteen yers, and asking leave for her to order the removal of certain bodies interred in said lot. _

allowed as to body interred by her own order.

Voted that the petitioner be allowed to order the removal of the body placed in said lot by her own order, but that this board have no authority to allow the removal of the body placed there by order of her said husband many years ago.

Adjourned Attest Geo. W^m Bond Clerk pro tem.