1856-09-01 Trustee Committee on Lots: Interment in Public Lots, 1831.036.006 - p1

The undersigned, a Committee appointed
to examine the Public Lots at Mount Auburn
and ascertain their condition, and also what
arrangment can be made to have a more perfect
record of the interments therein, has attended
to that duty and submits the following

— Report —

Upon examination of the Records, your
Committee found them to have been very irregularly
kept - in some cases all traces of identity of the
persons interred there being utterly lost; and in
one case in which a relative desired to place
a marble stone over the remains of a friend, and
had the stone transported there; after some twelve
graves had been opened, was obliged to
abandon the attempt, and the stone is now
lying upon the ground.

It may be said that it is owing the negligence
of the persons who have the interments made - that
it is their duty to see that some evidence of
the place where the body of their friend is interred
should be placed upon it - but it is well
known that where so many individuals have