1886 Trustees Meeting Minutes, Volume 7, 1831.005.007

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Treasurer Quarterly reports The Treasurer having presented his reports for the quarters ending respectively June ⁴⁷⁸ 30^th and September ⁴⁷⁹ 30^th the same were referred to the Committee on Finance

Representative appointed /13/ Voted. That Representatives be designated for lots as follows.

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charge for Cremation Voted. - That the rates for cremation be modified from time to time to meet the rates charged by any crematory situated in New England, subject however to the approval of the President.

C.P. Bowditch Petition A Petition from Mr C ⁴⁸⁰ P. Bowditch, requesting the corporation to recognize a transfer of the right of deposit of incinerated ashes in the monument on lot ^#1208 and give to such transfer the force of the order required by the by-laws before interment is allowed, was referred to a special committee consisting of Messrs Choate and Hutchins.

Dissolved

John L. Dill

Secretary Protem.

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1907

Alterations to Receiving Tomb Appropriation Voted In accordance with the notice given at the last meeting the President asked for an appropriation of Fifteen Hundred dollars to be expended in making the required alterations in the Receiving Tomb, and it was Voted that the appropriation be granted.

Storage House for Half-Hardy Plants, &c. The President then gave notice that at the next meeting of the Board he should ask for an appropriation not exceeding Four Thousand dollars to be used for the erection of a storage house for half-hardy plants and a small greenhouse for the propagation of trees and shrubs.

Henry H. Fay appears in support of request Pursuant to the vote passed at the meeting of January 9, Mr. Henry H. Fay appeared before the Board and presented reasons _arguments in support of his request that separate accounts be kept with the several proprietors of Lot under perpetual care, and that any surplus from the _of annual income be applied to the care and restoration of the Monuments and Headstones on said Lots. After hearing Mr. Fay's remarks, the President replied that there were in the minds of the Board three definite and specific reasons why his request ^ought should not ^to be granted.

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first, that it was a serious question whether the corporation wished to bind itself to keep separate ledger accounts with Lot owners, perpetually: Second that for two generations there has been inserted in the contracts for the care of Lots a provision that any surplus of income shall be expended for the general purpose of the Cemetery: and third that as a charge of Fifteen dollars is made for the care of a Headstone upon the assumption that it will last for about eighty years, the result of the adoption of the plan proposed by Mr. Fay would be that ^^many Lot owners would ^^{decide to take the chances & not} _{not care to} pay this amount, and that the revenues of the corporation would be proporationally diminished.

The subject having been fully discussed later in the meeting, it was voted that the President communicate with Mr. Fay and inform him courteously that the Board had given the matter of his request this careful consideration and had concluded that it was inexpedient to grant the same.

Henry M. Warren A request was received from Henry M. Warren

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