1891-01 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, for 1890, Together with the Reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent. Fifty-Ninth Year.

FIFTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT.

Mount Auburn Cemetery.

JANUARY 1, 1891.

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ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

TRUSTEES

OF THE

Cemetery of Mount Auburn,

FOR 1890,

TOGETHER WITH

THE REPORTS

OF THE

TREASURER AND SUPERINTENDENT.

FIFTY-NINTH YEAR.

BOSTON: ALFRED MUDGE & SON, PRINTERS, No. 24 FRANKLIN STREET. 1891.

OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION FOR 1891

Trustees.

Treasurer. H. B. MACKINTOSH.

Secretary L.G. FARMER.

Superintendent JAMES W. LOVERING.

Office of the Corporation. 5 TREMONT STREET, BOSTON.

Offie of the Superintendent AT THE CEMETERY, P.O. Address, Cambridge, Mass.

Orders for work on lots may be given at the office of the Superintendent or sent by mail to his address.

FIFTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT.

The Trustees herewith submit the fifty-ninth annual report, together with the reports of the Superintendent and the Treasurer.

The results of the year have been successful. The receipts from sales and other sources have been larger than in the previous year, while the expenses have not been proportionally increased. The exhibit of the various funds is as follows : —

The Repair fund amounts to $643,700.28, showing an increase of $42,747.10 for the year.

The Permanent fund: amounts to $298,108.55, showing a gain of $11,226.69.

The General fund has increased $6,107.65, and amounts to $74,488.54.

During the past year the Secretary bas been engaged in preparing an abstract of the deeds of the proprietors. It has occupied much time, and the work has been done with ability and intelligence. The abstract fills three thick folio volumes, and is intended for consultation and use in the Boston office. The original volumes have been removed to Cambridge and stored in the brick fire-proof vaults of the corporation. ‘The original documents can be readily consulted, when desired, on application to the Superintendent, while their safety is insured against dangers from fire or otherwise, in buildings not owned by the corporation.

At the last annual meeting suggestions were made in regard to a new plan of the property owned and occupied by the corporation, to be printed in the next annual report; and also as to the expediency of preparing a new catalogue of the proprietors. Both sugeestions were laid by the President before the Board of Trustees, and by them favorably received. A new plan has accordingly been pre-