Trustees Records, Vol. 5, 1870 (page 048)

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Trustees' Report

Trustees' Report

During the past year liberal importations and
purchases of flowering shrubs and plants have been made
for the embellishment of the Cemetery, most of which are
now in good and promising condition.

The Reception House opposite the Gate has been
completed and supplied with various accommodations
for the use of visitors. the Superintendent's House and
appurtenances have been put in thorough repair.

Hazel Dell has been further improved by the com-
pleting of Tombs on the Northerly side, and laying out of
new lots on the Southerly side of said Dell, conformably to
a Plan submitted by the Superintendent and adopted by
the Trustees.

A strip of land outside of Coolidge Avenue, measuring
seven feet two inches in front, and thirty=one feet in the rear,
containing ten thousand four hundred and twenty square
feet has been sold to the City of Cambridge, at the rate of
twelve and a half cents per foot, for $1302.50

It has been voted to erect a new Greenhouse at
an expense not exceeding three thousand dollars, ($3000. –)

A tract of land lying West of the Cemetery, con-
taining about six and a half acres has been purchased
of R^t Rev. John J. Williams, Roman Catholic Bishop of
Boston, for the sum of six thousand five hundred dollars ($6500.)

The Trustees, at a meeting April 12^t, elected Col.
Charles W. Folsom as Superintendent for the current year.

At the same meeting they adopted the Report of a