Report of Trustees of the Cemetery.  City of Hallowell, Kennebec County, Me.:  Municipal 
Year Ending March 1, 1887.

Mayor's Address and Annual Reports
Made to the City Council of Hallowell,
For the Municipal year ending March 1, 1887.
With a List of City Officiers.

Augusta:  Charles E. Nash, Printer
1887
page 27-27

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Report of Trustees of the Cemetery.

To the City Council:

Gentlemen:  The Trustees of the Cemetery beg leave to report
that they have attended to their duties the past year, as the ordinances
of the city require.

T. E. Church was elected Superintendent, and as attended to his
duties to the satisfaction of the trustees.  For a detailed account of 
the expenses in the care of the Cemetery we would refer to the 
report of the City Treasurer.  Such care consists of clearing off the 
leaves in the spring, graveling roads, grading lots, &c., and breaking
roads in the winter.

Section 5, chapter 15 of the Revised Ordinances seems to provide
for the funds for the payment of these necessary expenses; but there
is no way provided for the use of such fund by the trustees, except 
by Mayor's warrant, by order of the City Council.  Section 7 of the 
same chapter seems to conflict with Section 5.  As there are no funds 
in the hands, or coming into the hands of the trustees, consequently 
they can use none for any purpose whatever.  If bills are contracted 
and meet with the approval of the City Council, they are paid, as has
been done heretofore, but the class of laborers employed by the 
trustees need their pay at once, and do not like to wait one, two or 
more months, while the City Council are making up their minds
in regard to the matter.  It seems plain to the trustees that this 
section (7) certainly assumes that the trustees have the use of certain
funds; that once in three months, at least, they have to account for,
and turn in the balance into the treasury of the city.

The facts in regard to the Cemetery fund are these:  When this 
ordinance was adopted, creating this board of trustees, there was no
Cemetery funds in the hands of the treasurer of the city.  The 
trustees, by this ordinance, had certain duties to perform and work 
to do, which had to be done at once.  The bills were paid, as we have
stated, some lots were sold, the pay for which went directly into the 
City Treasury, to the credit of the Cemetery fund, up to this date
the funds so received have not paid the necessary expenses, and the 
unusual expenses to start with, so that the Cemetery appears to be in 
debt to the city.

If a small appropriation could have been made the first of the year
to have paid the debt, the account would have been more than 
balanced now.

The Centennial Burial Ground Association, have spent consid-
erable money under the direction of the Trustees, in the care of 
trees and paths, re-setting head-stones, &c.

The Trustees would recommend for the coming year, that an 
appropriation be made for their use, for the care and ornamentation 
of the Cemetery.  As the old part of the grounds are now about all 
taken up and occupied, the new grounds and lots must be graded,
road-ways made, and quite a large number of trees set out, to corres-
pond with what we now have.

Respectfully submitted,

GEORGE S. FULLER
JOHN W. CLARKE
Trustees.
Hallowell, March 17, 1887.