Trustees Records, Vol. 1, 1835 (page 029)

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Proprietors

Monday February 1^st 1836. 11 oclock A.M. Horticultural Rooms.

Pursuant to adjournment the Proprietors met at the
abovenamed time & place, were called to order by the
Secretary & B.A. Gould Esq^e was chosen chairman to
preside at this meeting.

1836 Treasurers Report

The Secretary then read the report of the Treasurer
which is as follows.

"The Treasurer begs leave to report, that since the annual
meeting of the Mass. Horticultural Society in September
1834, when his last report was made, every debt due
from the Garden & Cemetery Committee has been
paid, & there remains in the Treasury, per certificate
of the Auditor B.A. Gould Esq^e the sum of $1,210.74
He further reports that the payments for the Mount
Auburn Estate & improvements thereon, up to the
30^th of June last, when the account for ^of the Garden
& Cemetery Com^ee were closed, amount to the sum
of $27,006.25; that the total number of Lots sold
to the same date is 390 producing the sum
of $26776.44, leaving a balance due from the
Mass Horticultural Society to the Proprietors of the
Cemetery of Mount Auburn of $1029.81. To this
must be added some bills against the Garden
& Cemetery Committee not yet received rendered,
particularly one for an iron waggon, designed to
transport stone within the grounds), which may
amount together to $300, & of which a considerable
portion is expected to be paid in Lots. Since the
30^th of June 36 Lots have been sold, producing $2951.20