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Daniel L. Winsor
Aug. 12. 1867
(fees for [deposit?] in R. T. &
Public Lots)

[Letterhead: Mount Auburn Cemetery.]

Mount Auburn, August 12 1867

To the Trustees
Mount Auburn Cemetery

Dear Sirs.

I beg leave to offer the following for
your consideration

The price for the deposit
of a body in the Receiving Tomb has ever
been $20⁰⁰ and if a lot was selected within
4 months $14⁰⁰ was returned & body was interred
free of charge! When the price of land and
interrment fees was raised, the matter of
increasing the amount of deposit was spoken
of but was not changed. At present, the
Receiving Tomb has a large number of bodies in [it?]
and some 6 or 7 bodies have remained
there over One Year and our custom has
ever been, to inter them, after having given
repeated notice that we should do so
Now, as the price charged for an interrment
in the "St Pauls Lot" say $30⁰⁰ to bury those
bodies which are left in the R Tomb to