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Bigelow be authorized to have a plan of the grounds 

 of Mount Auburn lithographed, and to give names to 

 such ponds, avenues, or places as required them ; also 

 to alter any names before affixed. In the execution 

 of the latter duty, similar to one previously ordered by 

 the sub-committee, and for which his early studies 

 and tastes had eminently qualified him, Dr. Bigelow 

 adopted the beautiful and appropriate names of trees 

 and shrubs for the paths and avenues ; and this course 

 has since been followed, with occasional deviations, 

 made to gratify the desire of parties interested. Mr. 

 Wadsworth's plan of the grounds was submitted and 

 accepted at this meeting, and afterwards lithographed 

 on a reduced scale. At the same meeting a vote was 

 passed to permit single interments to be made in the 

 grounds by persons not proprietors. The enclosure, 

 since named St. James's lot, on Cypress Avenue, was 

 shortly after set off for the purpose, and surrounded 

 with a slight fence. 



About one hundred lots at Mount Auburn having 

 been surveyed, it was voted, in November, to oifer at 

 auction to proprietors, for a premium, the right of 

 choice among the lots laid out. Liberal bids were 

 made at this auction, the highest of one hundred dol- 

 lars, by Samuel Appleton ; and the next, fifty dollars, 

 by Benjamin Adams. The whole proceeds of the sale, 

 after deducting auction expenses, were $944.92. 



It will be remembered that on the 3d of August, 

 1831, the one hundred lots necessary to be purchased 

 to secure the grounds of Mount Auburn were disposed 

 of. But such was the demand for lots, that, by the 

 18th of November of the same year, upwards of twenty 

 additional lots were taken. On this last-mentioned 



