FINANCE committee's REPORT. 69 



Extract from the Eeport of the Superintendext of the 

 Cemetery of Moukt Auburn. 



Garden Pond Meadow has been excavated from the north upland over 

 to the ridge that extends from Fountain Avenue, through the meadow, 

 to near Coolidge Avenue; and the high ridge of land running from Yew 

 and Fountain Avenues, easterly, towards Coolidge Avenue, has been cut 

 down, averaging from six to seventeen feet in depth, and removed to fill 

 up Garden Pond excavation, before referred to, and by measurement of 

 our Surveyor there has been 390,309 cubic feet of marsh land filled up 

 the past year, at a cost of S5,85.5.53, independent of the cost of exca- 

 vating the mud, and carting off the same, which is worth to the " Cor- 

 poration" the expense of excavating and removing. But one-fourth part 

 of the amount above should be charged to the Horticultural Society. 



Halcyon Avenue, and the piece of ground south of it, which backs on 

 to Lime Avenue, has been excavated, six feet deep, and an area of 8,880 

 square feet, and has been filled this year and last with gravel to an 

 average depth of ten feet, making, as per Surveyor's account, 88,880 

 cubic feet, at a cost of - - - - - $1,333 20 



Fountain Avenue, excavated and filled last year, in width 

 12 feet, and depth 10 feet, making 23,041 cubic feet, at a 

 cost, exclusive of excavating and carting off" mud, of - 345 60 



1,678 80 



The New Public Lot has been in progress of comi^letion, at intervals, 

 through the season, such as completing the stone wall, putting a flight 

 of stone steps in, cutting down and filling up, forming banks, »fcc., and 

 has caused an expenditure of $1,400.00 this year, and I am hapi^y to 

 say is now nearly finished, and will be completed early in the coming 

 spring; and when finished, one-fourth part of the expense will also be 

 chargeable to the Horticultural Society. 



