Trustees Records, Vol. 2, 1854 (page 157)

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Expenditures limited _

B. F. Hallett Esq. then offered the following resolution
That hereafter no expenditure exceeding the sum of
one hundred dollars shall be ordered or authorized,
unless the same shall be voted by a majority of
the Board of Trustees.

Pending this W^m Brigham Esq. offered
the following as an amendment to the same: _

"That the Proprietors recommend that the
Trustees adopt a By-Law for the action of the Board
that no money beyond the sum of one hundred
dollars in any on instance be appropriated without
the consent of a majority of the whole Board."

After the discussion of the same by Messrs
Hallett, Brigham. J. M. Wightman & C. P. Curtis, the
amendment, by common consent, was withdrawn. _

The original resolution was thus put and adopted.

Mr Prince Hawes then submitted the following
resolution _

"That the Trustees shall not be allowed to
expend more than three thousand dollars for any one
object until the consent of the Proprietors shall have
been given at a meeting legally called for that purpose."

It being suggested that the motion in this
form applied to the ordinary expenses for the care of the
Cemetery as well as to other objects, the same was withdrawn.

The meeting then adjourned without day.
Attest Austin J. Coolidge Secretary.