1857-08-10 Trustee Committee on Grounds: Greenhouses, 1831.033.003-009 - p1

The Committee on Grounds report --

That the great and increasing number
of lots in Mount Auburn which are to annually
sold, surveyed, and prepared graded, and especially
of those which ^{after being made} are to be kept preserved in repair, -- ^also the
many miles of paths and avenues which are
to be kept in order, and the numerous ap-
plications from individual proprietors for
various services; constitute collectively a duty
too great to be well and advantageously performed
by any one individual

They believe that it would conduce to
the benefit of the corporation and the convenience
of proprietors, if a new subordinate officer
should be appointed, with the title of Gard^ener
who should shall have charge of the repair of lots
of proprietors and the sale of planting of flowers
shrubs &c. They therefore recommend that a
passage of the following By laws Gardener be forthwith appointed whose duties and tenor
of office shall be defined by the adoption of the ^following by law.

There shall be Gardener shall be
appointed annually in the same manner and
at the same time as the Superintendent, whose
duty it shall be to take charge of and keep