Trustees Records, Vol. 1, 1835 (page 217)

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Commonwealth of Massachusestts.

Suffolk ss. February 17. A.D. 1851. Then personally appeared
Henry M. Parker and made oath that he would faithfully
perform the duties of Secretary of the Proprietors of the Cemetery
of Mount Auburn. Before me,
W^m. R. P. Washburn Justice of the Peace.
April 11^th 1851.

Trustees. April 11. 1851.

Pursuant to notice issued in the usual manner the
Trustees met at the office of Charles P. Curtis Esquire,
Court street, Boston, at 12 o'clock noon: Present Mess^rs
Bigelow, C.P. Curtis, I. Parker, Tisdale, Crockett &
Dixwell - Mr Gould joined the meeting at 12.30-

the Secretary being absent, Mr Dixwell was appoin-
ted Secretary pro tempore.

Painting Fence

Mr. Tisdale was appointed a Committee with full
powers to paint the iron fence on the roads, and
to replace the wooden posts and rails, on the edge
of the side-walk, near the gate, with iron.

Repairs on the Chapel.

Dr. Bigelow brought before the board the present con-
dition of the Chapel, stating that it has always leak-
ed, that the most skilful and faithful mechanics
have been employed at great expense to repair the
roof without remedying the difficulty; that Mess^rs
Washburn, Treadwell & Standish have examined
the building with him, and find great defects
in it, and that he has doubts of its safety. The
pinnacles are found to be hollow and admit
the rain and the walls of the clere-story crack-
ed, as if shaken by the wind, defects known from
the time of its erection but compromised with the