Records of Committees, Volume 1, 1831 (page 020)

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July 19. 1834

At a meeting of the Garden & Cemetery on 19 July
1834, present— Judge Story, Gen: Dearborn, M^r
Bond, M^r Cook, D^r Bigelow, M^r Gould M^r Brown
& M^r Curtis

Fees for interment

M^r Bond offered a schedule of fees proper to be
charged by the Superintendant, for services relative
to interments, which was adopted

Lafayette

A letter signed by H F Baker, L. M. Walter & C. F. Adams
a Committee of the Young Men of Boston, requesting
to have a lot of land assigned for a Cenoptaph in me-
mory of Gen: Lafayette, was read, and thereupon
voted that the laudable design of the Young Men
of Boston to erect a Cenotaph in memory of Lafayette
has the cordial approbation of the Committee,
and ^^that a suitable piece of ground in the Cemetery
shall be laid out & appropriated to the erection
of such monument—
D^r Bigelow, M^r Bond & M^r Curtis were appointed a
Committee to designate the spot where the Cenotaph
shall be erected

Wagon

M^r Bond was appointed a Committee to procure
a Wagon for transporting stone & other heavy burdens
within the garden & cemetery.—

House

M^r Bond was appointed a Committee to repair
the Superintendant's House—

Posts

Also to erect an additional number of posts for
horses without the Gate & within the grounds, at
his discretion—

Benches

Also to erect such number of benches in the
grounds as he deems expedient