1842-05-07 Letter: George W. Bond to Curtis, 1831.020.002-001

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B R Curtis Esqr

Dear Sir,

I think no organization of the board of Trustees of Mt Auburn has been made this year. You will probably have a meeting during my absence of a few weeks & I beg leave to suggest for full consideration the question which has often been agitated, of granting permits to strangers to drive into the grounds. I have been opposed to it from the difficulty of discriminating its lessening the inducements to become Proprietors merely for the value of the privilege of introducing strangers. This last reason is becoming of less & less consequence to us. The other remains in all its force -- still, cases have happened when it has been mortifying that the accommodation could not have been granted. Gov Ellsworth & family is one of them. If the thing is done I suppose tickets should be granted only to persons living more than 15 or 20 miles from the Cemetery in the City -- for a single time & either for a single vehicle or for a single party. Probably it would be best that each Trustee should be supplied with them.

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There is another topic which I beg leave to ask attention to. It is known that the Treasr's compensation has hitherto been the use of moneys lying in his hands. Sometimes the amt has been inconsiderable & I presume has fallen short on average of 2000 dolls, as I have kept well invested. My desire is to change the mode of compensation & that the collection be deposited, in some Bank in the name of the Treasr, as such, from time to time The duty & labor of the office have become very considerable & frequent enquiries relating to the Cemetery cause much interruption to business.

Still the object & means of the Institution may not justify the pay of a full compensation for the services rendered and if I continue as Treasr I shall submit readily to the views of the board. It may be proper that the salary commence on 1 June or July.

Yours truly

George Bond

Otis Place

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George Bond -- to B.R. Curtis

B.R. Curtis Esq Secy Prop'rs of Mt Auburn

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