Trustees Records, Vol. 1, 1835 (page 159)

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Suffock ss. March 20^th A.D. 1847. Then personally
appeared Henry M. Parker and made oath that he
would faithfully perfom the duties of the Secretary
of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn.
Before me.
Benj^m F Brooks -- Justice of the Peace

Trustees

Pursuant to notices issued in the usual manner by the Sec-
retary the Trustees met at the office of C.P. Curtis Esquire
on the sixth day of August A.D. eighteen hundred and forty
seven at twelve o'clock M. Present Messrs Bigelow, C.P.
Curtis, Crockett, Gould, Gray and Parker, and Read

Treasurer's salary.

The committee on the Treasurer's salary made a verbal
report concluding with a recommendation that the
Trustees make no change in the salary of the Treasurer,
and the report was unanimously accepted.

Bowditch Statue.

Voted. That the Committee on Lots be authorized, in
regard to the land to be sold to the Committee on the
Bowditch Statue, to dispense with the choice money.

Statue of Mr Justice Story.

Voted. That C.P. Curtis and J.C. Gray be a committee
with authority to make a contract if they shall deem
it expedient, with William W. Story Esquire, for a Statue
in marble of the late Mr Justice Story to be delivered
at Mount Auburn -- provided it can be done, of full
size with pedestal, for the sum of money in the Treasu-