Trustees Records, Volume 2, 1854 (page 024)

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Vacancies

-ed meeting on any vacancies now existing in the offices
of the corporation, and on a general plan defining the
duties of the present and future officers.

Voted. That said committee consist of Messrs Bangs
Read and Little.

Com^ee on Lots.

the Trustees then proceded to the election of
a Committee of Lots for the ensuing year, by ballot
and Messrs Bigelow, C. P. Curtis and Bangs were
elected.

Finance, Com^ee - Auditor -

Messrs Gould and Little were elected a committee on finance
for the ensuing year. Mr Kuhn was elected auditor of accounts for the year.

S't^adg. Com^ee on Grounds &c.

Voted. That the committee of three already ap-
pointed on motion of Mr Read, also consider the ex-
pediency of establishing a standing committee of three
on grounds avenues & paths and to prescribe their
duties and powers, reporting on this subject at the
adjourned meeting.

Statuary Otis

Voted. That the President, Jacob Bigelow, be in-
structed and authorized in the name and behalf
of this Corporation to contract with some suitable ar-
tist, to be selected by him, for a statue of James Otis
in marble, the cost of which shall not exced five
thousand dollars.

Winthrop omitted by mistake?
Adams.

Voted. That the President Jacob Bigelow be
instructed and authorized in the name and behalf
of this Corporation to contract with some suitable
artist to be selected by him, for a statue of John
Adams, in marble, the cost of which shall
not exceed five thousand dollars.

A. T. Hall.

A letter was read from Andrew T. Hall. Esqr.