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The granite facade furnished by the contractors for a catacomb or
receiving tomb, not proving satisfactory, the Trustees have declined to
accept it, and the work of that structure still remains unfinished.

In conformity to the vote of the Proprietors, passed at their last
annual meeting, the suit against Mr. Jonathan Mann, late Superin-
tendent, has been discontinued, and the money deposited by him as
security, has been refunded to him.

During the past year the Corporation have experienced a great loss
in the death of Charles P. Curtis, Esq., one of the oldest and most
efficient members of the Board of Trustees. Mr. Curtis came into the
Board in 1833, two years after its establishment. During a period of
more than thirty years he has served the Corporation with great zeal
and fidelity, and has brought to its service his extensive practical
experience and great legal accomplishment. He was among the
foremost in all useful endeavors to carry out the original design, and
to promote judicious measures for the preservation, security and
embellishment of the Cemetery. The public buildings and enclosures,
the historic statuary, the permanent accumulating fund, and the pru-
dently reserved areas of vacant space, all received from him an active
and cordial support. His genial and familiar face had become almost
identified with the sittings of the Board, and will long be missed by
those who had enjoyed the pleasure of his presence and coöperation.

At different times since the incorporation of Mount Auburn Cemetery,
the attention of Proprietors has been called by the Trustees to the im-
portant subject of the future preservation and perpetual repair of their
individual lots. It will be seen by the By-Laws, that this object may
be effected in two ways, either by contracting specially, in the manner
there provided for the perpetual preservation and repair of a given lot,
or by depositing with the Treasurer a certain sum, the interest of which
only will be annually appropriated by the Trustees to such repair and
preservation. The common prudence which leads a man to attend to
the preservation of his worldly goods during lite, and to the disposal
of them after his death, should lead him to a similar care of the place
which is herafter to contain his remains, and those of his kindred.