Trustees Records, Vol. 1, 1835 (page 242)

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Proprietors. 1853.

Mount Auburn Cemetery.

The annual meeting of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn
will be held at the office of the subscriber, in Boston, at no. 46 Wash-
ington Street, on Monday, the seventh day of February 1853. at 4 o'clock
P.M. to choose Trustees for the ensuing year, to hear the report of the
Treasurer, and to act on any others business which may legally come
before the said meeting. Henry M. Parker, Secretary.
Boston. Jan. 20. 1853.

Pursuant to the foregoing notice, which was
published in the Boston Daily Advertiser, a newspaper printed
in the City of Boston, more than seven days in succession before
the said time of the meeting, the Proprietors of the Cemetary of Mount
Auburn met at the time and place therein designated. A
quorum having assembled, the President, Dr. J. Bigelow took
the chair.

Annual Reports

The President proceeded to read a written report from
the Trustees, of the present condition of the Cemetary, and of
what had been done, and contracted for, during the past year,
as well as a historical account of the various improvements &c.

Thereupon, Voted, unanimously, that the President
be requested to prepare his report for publication, and
that it be printed in a neat form and distributed among
the Proprietors, by the Secretary, or under his direction.

The Treasurer read his report, but stated that by reason
of the inattention of the officers of the Mass. Horticultural Society to
their appointments, he had not been able to procure it to be audited
in season for this meeting.

Thereupon Voted. that the Treasurer's report be referred
to this Corporation's Auditor of accounts, and if passed by him that
it be entered at large upon the records.