1871-01 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, Together with the Reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent. January, 1871.

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

TRUSTEES

OF THE

Cemetery of Mount Auburn,

TOGETHER WITH THE

REPORTS

OF THE

TREASURER AND SUPERINTENDENT.

JANUARY, 1871.

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BOSTON:

1871.

BARKER, COTTER & CO., PRINTERS,

14 State Street.

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ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

TRUSTEES

OF THE

Cemetery of Mount Auburn,

TOGETHER WITH THE

REHPORTS

OF THE

TREASURER AND SUPERINTENDENT.

JANUARY, 1871.

BOSTON: 1S71.

BARKER, COTTER & CO., PRINTERS, 14 State Street

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TRUSTEES’ REPORT.

During the past year liberal importations and purchases of flowering shrubs and plants have been made for the embellishment of the Cemetery, most of which are now in good and promising condition.

The Reception House opposite the gate has been completed and supplied with various accommodations for the use of visitors. The Superintendent’s House and appurtenances have been put in thorough repair.

Hazel Dell has been further improved by the completing of Tombs on the Northerly side, and laying out of new lots on the Southerly side of said Dell, conformably to a plan submitted by the Superintendent and adopted by the Trustees.

A strip of land outside of Coolidge Avenue, measuring seven feet two inches in front, and thirty-one feet in the rear, containing ten thousand four hundred and twenty square feet, has been sold to the City of Cambridge, at the rate of twelve and a half cents per foot, for $1,302.50.

It has been voted to erect a new Greenhouse at an expense not exceeding three thousand dollars, ($3,000.)

A tract of land lying west of the Cemetery, containing about six and a half acres, has been purchased of Rt. Rev. John J. Williams, Roman Catholic Bishop of Boston, for the sum of six thousand five hundred dollars, ($6,500.)