Trustees Records, Vol. 4, 1865 (page 294)

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Trustee's Annual Report.

Sect. 5. Such parts of Sections two, three, four, and five of
Chapter ninety-six of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred
and thirty five, or of any Act in addition thereto, which may
be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby
repealed.

Approved April 17, 1869.

In compliance with the foregoing Act of the Legislature,
the Trustees at their meeting held December 14, 1869, voted,
to proceed to divide their board into six classes, and to
decide, by lot at what time the period of service of each
of the present incumbents should expire. The lots being
drawn, the result was declared as follows, (the name of
Mr. Charles C. Little, deceased, being omitted,) _
To go out of office at the Annual Meeting

1870,	James Read.
1871,	{ Paul Adams,
___	{ Edward S. Rand.
1872,	{ J. Ingersoll Bowditch,
___	{ Loyal Lovejoy.
1873,	{ Edward Austin,
___	{ Jacob Bigelow.
1874,	{ Isaac Livermore,
___	{ Jacob Sleeper.
1875,	{ James Cheever,
___	{ Otis Norcross.

During the past year many trees, constituting nearly
half the whole number standing at the beginning of the
year, have been culled out and removed, greatly improving