Trustees Records, Vol. 4, 1865 (page 086)

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Trustees _ Nov^r 5. 1866

Contract for perpet. repair of Lot 3553 _

the lot of Isaac W. How, numbered (3553)
thirty five hundred and fifty three, for the
sum of six hundred dollars. _

Voted that said contract be concurred in.

Application of Alex^r M^cDonald to cancel Old Lease _

The President read a communication from
Alexander M^cDonald, a ground tenant of the
Corporation of land on Brattle Street, Cambridge, adjacent
to the Greenhouse, and occupied by him for the manu-
facture of monuments, , under a six years lease, (one
year of which remains unexpired) at a rent of
seventy five dollars per annum, making the
following proposition: _

and take from Corporation New lease for Ten Years

To cancel the present
lease and take a new ground lease of the
Corporation at one hundred dollars per annum _
for the term of ten years, on the condition
that he should be allowed to remove his shop
back ten feet from the street, raise the same three
feet, setting it upon brick foundation, occupying
the same amount of land as now, to be set
off to him in such shape as shall be satisfactory
to the Corporation _ he to furnish the materials and
do the work at his own expense. _

referred to Com. on Grounds with full power _

On motion of Mr Livermore,

Voted that the proposition be referred to the
Committee on Grounds with full power. _