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opinion that the matter should be referred to the City Solicitor for him to report such action as he shall deem proper.
Providence December 8, 1862
Philip Case for the Committee
Resolved
That the subject of dispute in regard to the line of land between the City and Joseph Whelden be referred to the City Solicitor to report such action as he may deem proper
Passed December 8, 1862
Approved Dec. 11, 1862 Jabez C. Knight Mayor. [City Council Records No. 4, page 530.]
[January 13, 1863.] Resolved :- That the Committee on the North Burial Ground be instructed to inquire why the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground have not for the last two years made "a detailed statement of their accounts to the Municipal Court of this City, showing the amounts expended and the balances remaining on hand of the several trust funds " as required by the Act of the General Assembly passed at its January session A. D. 1861.
Passed January 12, 1863.
Approved January 13 1863.
Jabez C. Knight Mayor. [City Council Records No. 5, page 1.]
[February 6, 1863.] Chapter 466.
An Act in Amendment of Chapter 367 " Of an Act in Relation to the North Burial Ground in the city of Providence " Passed January Session A. D. 1861.
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows.
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Section I. Section 4 of said act is hereby amended by inserting after the words "their discretion" in the fifth line of said Section, the words "with the approval of the board of aldermen of said city of Providence "
Section 2. So much of said act to which this is in amendment, as is inconsistent herewith, is hereby repealed. [Acts of General Assembly, January Session, 1863, page 208. Original act passed March S, 1861- Amended March 16, 1865, April 25, ISS9 and May 25, 1895.]
[February 11, 1863.] Report of Committee on North Burying Ground.
The Standing Committee on the North Burial Ground respectfully Report
That in pursuance of a Resolution passed at the last meeting of the City Council, they have examined into the Conditions of the trust funds connected with the North Burial Ground and have received a report thereon from the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground, which is herewith submitted
Report of the Commissioners.
" To the Hon. City Council
At the last meeting of the City Council the following Resolution was passed (See City Council Records No 5, page I.)
To this Resolution the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground would respectfully reply : that "for the last two years they have not made a detailed statement of their accounts to the Municipal Court " for the reason that no accounts of any description had accrued prior to April 21st 1862. Their charge as Trustees did not commence untill that day. The Annual Report therefore is not due before April 21, 1863. A report however has been made, which report is on file in the Municipal Court. *
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The Commissioners are not ignorant of the time prescribed for them to present an annual statement of receipts and disbursements. The services enjoined upon them which are gratuitous, they have intended to discharge with commendable dilligence.
It is not nine months since they received the first income from any trust fund : and they feel that they ought not to be arraigned for a dereliction of duty embracing a period of two years. A charge unjust and ungenerous the City Council have recorded against the Commis- sioners without a solitary fact to sustain it. If it is to remain as a per- manent record, self respect will prompt us no longer to retain our trust. January 20, 1863
Joseph F. Gilmore } Zachariah Allen Trustees Henry L. Bowen 7
Read : whereupon is is ordered that the same be received
Passed February 9, 1863
Approved February 11, 1863
Jabez C. Knight Mayor. [City Council Records No. 5, pages & §. 9.]
[February 11, 1863.] Resolved :-
That the City Council are fully satisfied that the management of the several trust funds connected with the North Burying Ground, is in good hands ; and that the City is indebted to the Commissioners for the inter- est they have taken and the labor they have performed without pay for improving and beautifying the grounds.
Passed February 9, 1863.
Approved February 11, 1863
Jabez C. Knight Mayor.
[City Council Records No. 5, page 9.]
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[February 11, 1863.] Resolved :
That the deed of gift executed by Phebe Whipple, bearing date April 5th, 1862 conveying to the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground and their successors in office, the sum of one hundred dollars in per- petual trust, the income thereof to be applied for the preservation and care of the burial-lot belonging to her family, under the provisions of the Act in relation to the North Burial Ground in the City of Provi- dence passed by the General Assembly at its January session A. D. 1861, be and is hereby accepted by the City Council.
Resolved :-
That the Deed of gift executed by Zachariah Allen bearing date May 13, 1861 conveying to the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground and their successors in said office, the sum of forty three 66/100 Dollars, being a residuary balance in his hands of a fund originally subscribed by himself and others, the income of which is to be applied continually for the preservation and care of said burial ground generally, to be held in perpetual trust under the provisions of the Act in relation to the North Burial Ground in the City of Providence, passed by the General Assem- bly at its January Session, A. D. 1861 : be and is hereby accepted by the City Council.
. Passed February 9 1863
Approved February 11, 1863 Jabez C. Knight Mayor. [City Council Records No. 5, page 12.]
[April 15, 1863.] Resolved : -
That the City Treasurer be requested to give Namon Miller & Jeremiah H. Miller a deed of lot No 156 in group No 20 in North
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Burial Ground as per certificate given Oct. 29, 1862 by Nathan Smalley Superintendent of said ground for the sum of forty one 25/100 Dollars paid to the late City Treasurer, and no account of said money appearing on his books; upon the affidavit of said Nathan Smalley that he paid said money over to the late City Treasurer.
Passed April 13, 1863.
Approved April 15, 1863. Jabez C. Knight Mayor. [City Council Records No. 5, page 25.]
[May 12, 1863.] Annual Report of the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground :---
To the Hon. City Council of the City of Providence
The Commissioners of the North Burying Ground Respectfully Report For the year ending April 30 1863 they have expended eighteen hundred and 21/100 Dollars.
On Avenues
$666.12
Grading Groups
414.24
Cistern and Cottage
1 39.00
On Cox estate
557.28
" Superintendants house
5.57
" Bridge and clearing Snow
11.50
$ 1800.21
Credit.
Orders on City Treasurer
$1517.03
Rent of Tomb
65.99
Poundage
7.25
Trees
14.1I
Rents of Nichols and Cox estates
50.01
$1654.39
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The sum of $557.28 expended on cistern and cottage is a permanent improvement. The City Treasurer has received for sale of lots $1044.62 : other receipts as above stated $137.76 Henry L. Bowen Joseph F. Gilmore ) Commissioners.
Read whereupon it is ordered that the same be received.
Passed May 11, 1863.
Approved May 12, 1863,
Jabez C. Knight Mayor.
[City Council Records No. 5, page 36.]
[June 2, 1863.] Annual Report of the Superintendant of the North Burial Ground.
To the Hon. the City Council of the City of Providence.
The Superintendant of the North Burying Ground in conformity with law makes his annual report.
Received for interments from June 1, 1862 to June 1, 1863 $518.80
Received for fees on sales of lots
42.00
560.80
Providence June 1, 1863. N. Smalley Superintendent
Read : whereupon it is ordered that the same be received
Passed June 1, 1863
Approved June 2, 1863,
Jabez C. Knight Mayor.
[City Council Records No. 5, page 52.]
[January 12, 1864.] Resolved
That the gift of Rebecca M. Gladding to the Commissioners of the North Burying Ground, of the sum of one hundred dollars, in trust : the income thereof to be applied under the provisions of Chapter 367. of
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the Revised Statutes, to the preservation and care of the lot in said ground conveyed to George F. Gladding :- be and the same is hereby accepted by the City Council.
Passed January 11, 1864.
Approved January 12, 1864.
Jabez C. Knight Mayor. [City Council Records No. 5, page 118.]
[February 9, 1864.] Resolved : That the gift of John Barstow to the Commissioners of the North Burying Ground of the sum of one hundred dollars in trust the income thereof to be applied under the provisions of Chapter 367. of the Revised Statutes, to the preservation & care of the lot in said ground conveyed to said Barstow and others, be and the same is hereby accepted by the City Council.
Approved February 9, 1864.
Passed February 8, 1864.
Jabez C. Knight Mayor. [City Council Records No. 5, page 128.]
[May 11, 1864.] Annual Report of the Commissioners of the North Burying Ground .-
The Commissioners of the North Burying Ground Respectfully Report :- The grounds avenues and fences to be in good condition. For the improvement and protection of the same during the last year they have expended the sum of two thousand ninety four dollars and 63/100 For an exact account thereof they refer to the accounts on file
Providence May 26, 1864. Zachariah Allen Commissioners Henry L. Bowen S
To the Hon. City Council
Read :- whereupon is ordered that the same be received
Passed May 9, 1864.
Approved May 11, 1864. Jabez C Knight Mayor.
[City Council Records No. 5, page 143.]
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[June 6, 1864.] Annual Report of the Superintendent of the North Burying Ground.
To the Hon. the City Council of the City of Providence
The Superintendent of the North Burying Ground in conformity with law makes this his annual Report from June 1, 1863 to June 1, 1864.
Amount received for interments $632.00
Amount received for sale of lots
69.00
$701.00
N. Smalley Superintendent
Read whereupon it is ordered that the same be received
Passed June 6, 1864. Approved Thomas A. Doyle Mayor.
[City Council Records No. 5, pages 152-3.]
[June 6, 1864.] Resolved :-
That the Joint Committee who were appointed to cause the Mayors Address to be printed be and they are hereby directed to cause to be printed
The annual report of the Commissioners of the North Burying Ground made May 9 '64.
The Annual Report of the Superintendent of the North Burying Ground and * * * [City Council Records No. 5, page 156.]
[July 11, 1864.] Resolved :-
That the gift of Ferdinand F. Balkcom of North Providence, to the Commissioners of the North Burying Ground, of the sum of one hun- dred dollars in trust the income thereof to be applied under the pro- visions of Chapter 367 of the Revised Statutes, to the preservation and
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care of the lot conveyed to him by deed dated October 4, 1861 be and the same is hereby accepted by the City Council.
Passed July 11, 1864.
Approved Thomas A. Doyle Mayor. [City Council Records No. 5, pages 175-6.]
[August 8, 1864.] An Ordinance in relation to the registration of deaths and the Interment of the dead.
It is ordained by the City Council of the City of Providence as follows.
Section I. There shall be appointed by the city council a sufficient number of persons to act as undertakers, removable at the pleasure of the city council.
Sect. 2. Whenever any person shall die in the city it shall be the duty of the physician attending in his or her last sickness upon applica- tion to furnish to the undertaker attending the funeral, or to the city registrar, a certificate, giving the name of the person, date of death, and the disease or cause of his or her death.
Sect. 3. Every physician omitting or refusing to furnish such certifi- cate as aforesaid shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars for each offence.
Sect. 4. No person shall bury, or place in a tomb or remove from the city, or otherwise dispose of the body of any human being who shall die in the city, without first reporting the death to the city registrar, and obtaining a permit from him under a penalty of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars for each and every offense.
Sect. 5. No permit shall be given, as provided in section four until the city registrar is furnished with the information in relation to the deceased person, required by the laws of the state, for record, so far as the same can be ascertained, together with the physician's certificate of the cause of death, whenever a physician has been in attendance or a coroner's certificate, whenever a coroner's inquest has been held.
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Whenever a permit for burial is applied for, in a case of death without the attendance of a physician, or if it is impossible to obtain the physician's certificate it shall be the duty of the city registrar to inves- tigate the case so far as may be necessary, and when he has obtained satisfactory evidence in relation to the cause and circumstances of the death, he shall sign the certificate and give the required permit If not satisfied in relation to the cause and circumstances of the death, or if, in his opinion, the public good requires it, he shall report the case to a coroner for investigation.
Sect. 6. Whenever the body of a human being who has died out of the city shall be brought here for burial it shall be the duty of the undertaker or other person attending the funeral to furnish the report required in sections four (4) and five (5) with the exception of the physician's certificate and in case of neglect or failure so to do such person shall forfeit and pay not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars for each and every offense.
Sect. 7. All funerals shall take place between sunrise and sunset, unless otherwise permitted or directed by the board of health. The top of every coffin deposited in the ground shall be at least three feet below the usual surface thereof.
Sect. 8. The city registrar shall cause an abstract of the returns of death made to him to be published in all the newspapers which con- tract to do the city printing, monthly, and oftener if required by the board of health. He shall also, on or before the first day of April, annually, prepare and present to the city council a statement of the number of births, of marriages solemnized, and of deaths which occurred in the city during the year ending with the thirty-first day of December next preceding, with such other information and suggestions in relation thereto as he may deem useful for the promotion of the public health, and other interests of the city.
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Sect. 9. No undertaker or other person shall bury or cause to be buried the body of any deceased person in this city except in such grounds as are now known and used as burying grounds or such as shall hereafter be by the city council designated as burying grounds, and authorized to be used as such and every person violating this section of this ordinance shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars for each offence.
Sect. 10. The ordinance passed in December 1855 entitled "An Ordinance in relation to undertakers and the interment of the dead " and all other ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
Passed August 8, 1864. Approved Thomas A. Doyle. Mayor.
[Ordinance Book No. 2, page ISI, City Clerk's Office, Providence.]
[November 15, 1864.] Resolved :
That the gift of Stephen Randall of North Providence, to the Com- missioners of the North Burying Ground, of the sum of one hundred dollars, in trust, the income thereof to be applied under the provisions of Chapter 367 of the Revised Statutes to the preservation and care of the lot of said Randall in the North Burying Ground : be and the same is hereby accepted by the City Council.
Passed November 14 1864.
Approved November 15, 1864. Thomas A. Doyle Mayor. [City Council Records No. 5, page 223.]
[March 16, 1865.] Chapter 572
An Act in Amendment of Chapter 367 "of an act in Relation to the North Burial Ground of the City of Providence " passed January Session A. D. 1861.
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It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows :
Section 1. The accounts required by section four (4) of said act, to be submitted to the municipal court of the city of Providence shall hereafter be submitted to the City Council of said City, at such time and in such form as said City Council may from time to time prescribe.
Sec. 2. So much of said section four (4) of said act to which this is in amendment, as is inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed. [Acts of General Assembly January Session, 1865, page 203. Original act passed March 8, 1861. Amendments February 6, 1863, April 25, ISS9 and May 25, 1895.]
[June 8, 1865.] Annual Report of the Commissioners of the North Burying Ground.
To the Hon. City Council of the City of Providence
The Commissioners of the North Burying Ground in conformity with law, make this their Annual Report for the year ending April 1, 1865.
Report.
First : The amount expended for and on account North Burying Ground for the past year is $2005.10
Second : The general purpose of the expenditure were for survey- ing and grading lots, beautifying the ground and gravelling the avenues per account rendered $2005.10 Paid as follows Orders on the City Treasurer $1830.34 Miscellaneous receipts 174.76
$2005.10
Providence May 1865
Respectfully submitted
Wm Earle For Commissioners
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Report of Trust Funds. North Burying Ground
Received from Jos Veazie
fund $11.60 Expended
$11.60
"
66 Phebe Whipple 5.40
5.40
66
R. M. Gladding 66 2.90
2.90
John Barstow
2.00
2.00
66
66 F. Balkcom
66
Stephen Randall
Unexpended interest. $21.90
Joseph Veazie Balance in Bank 248.78
Phebe Whipple
6.33
Rebecca M. Gladding "
66
3.10
John Barstow
65
2.50
253.71
Trust Funds invested as follows
Joseph Veazie 10 shares Boston & Prov. R. R.
par value $ 100 per share
$1000.00
Phebe Whipple deposited in Prov. Inst. for Savings on Interest
100.00
Rebecca M. Gladding Do.
100.00
John Barstow
Do.
100.00
Ferdinand Balcom
Do.
100.00
Stephen Randall
Do.
100.00
Zachariah Allen
Do.
43.66
$1543.66
Read : Whereupon it is ordered that the same be received In Common Council passed May 8, 1865. " Board of Aldermen " June 5, 1865.
Approved June 8, 1865. Thomas A. Doyle Mayor. [City Council Records No. 5, page 275.]
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[June 12, 1865.] Resolved
That the gift of Alexander Duncan, to the Commissioners of the North Burying Ground of the sum of one thousand dollars, in trust, the income thereof to be applied under the provisions of chapter 367 of the Revised Statutes to the preservation and care of the lots of said Duncan in the North Burying Ground be and the same is hereby accepted by the City Council.
Passed June 12, 1865.
Approved the same day, Thomas A. Doyle Mayor.
[City Council Records No. 5, page 279.]
[June 12, 1865.] Annual Report of the Superintendent of the North Burying Ground.
To the Hon City Council of the City of Providence
The Superintendent of the North Burying Ground in conformity with law makes this his annual report from June 1, 1864 to June 1, 1865.
Amount received for interments,
$677.00
.6 " sale of lots, 84.00
$761.00
N. Smalley Superintendent
Read : whereupon it is ordered that the same be received
Passed June 12, 1865
Approved the same day, Thomas A. Doyle Mayor.
[City Council Records No. 5, page 282.]
[January 8, 1866.] Resolved :-
That the Standing Committee on the North Burying Ground be and they are hereby directed to enquire and ascertain upon what terms the Randall Farm, (so called) containing about thirty acres and adjoining
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the North Burying Ground on the north, can be obtained for burial purposes ; and to report thereon to the City Council.
Passed January 8, 1866.
Approved the same day,
Thomas A. Doyle Mayor. [City Council Records No. 5, page 337.]
[March 12, 1866.] Resolved :-
That the bequest of Elizabeth Coville to the Commissioners of the North Burying Ground of eight shares in the Blackstone Canal National Bank, par value $25 each in trust, the income thereof to be applied under the provisions of Chapter 367 of the Revised Statutes to the preservation and care of the lot in the North Burying Ground conveyed to Elizabeth and Esther Coville by deed recorded in Book 4 page 213 of the records of deeds in said ground be and the same is hereby ac- cepted by the City Council.
Passed March 12, 1866
Approved the same day, Thomas A. Doyle Mayor. [City Council Records No. 5, page 356.]
[May 14, 1866.] Annual Report of the Commissioners of the North Burying Ground.
To the Hon. the City Council of the City of Providence-
The Commissioners of the North Burying Ground in conformity with law make this their annual report of. receipts and expenditures for the year ending April 30, 1866.
Report.
First. The amount expended for and on account of North Burying Ground for the past year is $2450.06
Second. The general purposes of the expenditures were for survey- ing grading lots beautifying the ground and gravelling the avenues per accounts rendered $2450.06
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Third. Paid as follows orders on City Treasurer for
Miscellaneous receipts
21 36.54 313.52 $2450.06
respectfully submitted
William Earle for Commissioners
Read : whereupon it is ordered that the same be received
Passed May 14, 1866.
Approved the same day,
Thomas A. Doyle Mayor.
[City Council Records No. 5, page 372.]
[June 4, 1866.] For the Annual Report of the Superintendent of the North Burying Ground see City Council Records No 5 page 387-388.
[City Council Records No. 5, pages 387-8.]
[June 4, 1866.] Resolved :
That the Joint Committee who were appointed to cause the Mayor's Address to be printed be and they are hereby authorized to cause to be printed
The Annual Report of the Commissioners of the North Burying Ground (made May 14, 1866)
The Annual Report of the Superintendent of the North Burying Ground.
[City Council Records No. 5, page 390.]
[July 9, 1866.] Report of the Standing Committee on the North Burying Ground.
The Standing Committee on the North Burial Ground who were instructed by resolutions to ascertain the best terms the heirs of Wil-
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liam Randall and John Carter Brown would sell to the City land ad- joining said Burial Ground Northerly and easterly Respectfully Report.
That they entered into the following agreement with said heirs of William Randall to ascertain a fair valuation of said Farm and agreed to leave the whole matter to two competent disinterested men to value said farm, containing nearly forty acres more or less and in case the two referees could not agree that they should call in the third person.
Your Committee selected Mr William G. R. Mowry as a suitable person to represent the City's interest, and the heirs of William Ran- dall selected Mr. Joseph W. Miller of North Providence to represent their interest, and the two gentlemen did agree with a written report here accompanying that the value of said farm is in their judgment, twenty thousand dollars $20000. and your committee agreed with said heirs of William Randall that the price agreed upon by said referees, to be a fair valuation of said farm containing 1.742.400 square feet.
Also the strip of land belonging to John Carter Brown Esq laying between the easterly side of said Burial ground and North Main Street, containing more than six acres or 251.476 square feet.
The increased demand for lots and the few remaining unsold re- quires addition of more land. Your Committee have been urged by many of the heaviest tax payers and by the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground to secure their two parcels of land for burial purposes without delay These additions would give more than one hundred acres in the whole burying ground, which would be entirely surrounded by streets roads and Moshassuck River.
Your Committee recommended the City Council to purchase said farm of the heirs of William Randall for the sum of twenty thousand dollars (20000) Also the strip of land belonging to John Carter Brown lying between the easterly side of said Burial Ground and North Main Street, containing more than six acres or 251.476 square feet and to pay Mr. Brown twelve thousand dollars $12000. and that the City Treasurer be
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directed to take deeds in the name of the City under the advice of the Standing Committee of the North Burial Ground, and the titles ap- proved by the City Solicitor.
For the Committee John D. Jones Chairman.
Read whereupon it is ordered that the same be received
Passed July 9, 1866.
Approved the same day, Thomas A. Doyle Mayor.
Resolved :-
That the City Treasurer acting under the advice and direction of the Standing Committee on the North Burial Ground be and he is hereby authorized and directed to purchase of the heirs of William Ran- dall deceased, the farm belonging to them adjoining the North Burial Ground and containing about forty acres ; and also, to purchase of John Carter Brown, the tract of land owned by him lying between said Burial Ground and North Main Street, containing between six and seven acres. Resolved :-
That the sum of thirty two thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated for the purchase of the foregoing estates.
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