MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY. 89 



Brought forward, - - - Sl,001 70 S2,726 96 



Excavation and Filling on Halcyon, near Vibur- 

 num Avenue: 

 376 c. yds. X 27 = 10,152 c. f., at 2 c., - - 203 04 



On Garden Avenue, near cor. of Yew: 



879 c. yds. X 27 = 23,733 c. f., at 2h c, - - 593 33 



1,798 07 



S4.525 03 



I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of account of improvements 

 for the year 1869, rendered by the Superintendent. 



A. J. COOLIDGE, Treasurer. 



Mount Auburn Cemetery, 16 Pemberton Square, 



Boston, January 30, 1869. 



Messrs. C. O. Whitmore and H. H. Hunnewell, 



Finance Committee, of Mass. Hort. Society. 

 Gentlemen: 



I regret that you should have been disappointed in the amount of 

 money you were entitled to receive from our Corporation, for the Horti- 

 cultural Society, on the first Monday of January. A portion of the 

 amount now charged to the Horticnltural Society, for the improvement 

 of otherwise useless land, should have been charged in former accounts; 

 and if it had been so done, your receipts in previous years would have 

 been smaller. 'No doubt that course would have been more satisfactory 

 to you. As I first entered upon my duties of Treasurer in June last, I 

 cannot give the reason for the omission to charge in the accounts the 

 improvements referred to, other than that I learn there was a misap- 

 prehension by the Superintendent with regard to a portion of the work 

 referred to. There seems to me to be no reason to fear a repetition of 

 the omission in the future. Your examination of the work completed, 

 as well as that in jjrogress, I trust has satisfied you that all that has been 

 undertaken is for the mutual benefit and profit of the two corporations. 



From a communication of the Superintendent, I gather substantially 

 these facts : 



The expenditures for 1866 and 1867, Garden Pond and surroundings, 

 were S7,534.32, of which the Horticultural Society were charged, Jan- 

 uary, 1868, $1,833.58. Filling up and grading Garden Pond, from 

 January, 1868, to January, 1869, $4,050.29. 



