SIR: The Board of Trustees of Mount Hope Cemetery Department respectfully submit the following report of the department for the year 1891 and January, 1892, included: There was an unexpended balance in the treasury on the first day of January, 1891, of $1,083.99. The income of the Perpetual Care Fund for the year 1891 was $1,487.33. There were special appropriations for the Army and Navy Lot of $4,000; for the City Lot, $5,000; and a regular appropriation for the general fund of $6,000. The revenue derived from the cemetery for the year 1891 and January, 1892, was $22,197.05, making the total amount for expenditures under the regulations of the Trustees, $38,281.04, as will be shown by the schedule; there was an unexpended balance in the treasury, January 31, 1892, of $1,156.64. The Trustees during the past year have had ground prepared for 1,073 graves, constructed an avenue, loamed and seeded 3,700 graves in Sections B and C, in that part of the cemetery known as the City Lot, in which are buried the city's poor. The entire appropriation has been expended on the lot, and it is to-day in as good condition as any other part of the cemetery. The Trustees have also expended the appropriation of $4,000, enlarging the Army and Navy Lot, removing and remodelling the old, and putting in new granite curbing, steps, and posts. The ground has been prepared and graded, making an addition of 204 graves. Before proceeding to enlarge the lot the Trustees invited representatives from all of the Boston G.A.R. Posts to confer with them at the cemetery, relative to the best plan for laying out the lot. Accordingly, on the 15th day of July, representatives of the several Posts met the Trustees at the cemetery, and, by a unanimous vote, recommended the plan of enlarging, which has been carried out by the Trustees; regulation tablets will be placed on all the graves as soon as furnished by the United States Government. As regards general work in the cemetery, 270 linear feet of avenue, with rock drain through the centre, have been constructed; 400 linear feet of avenue have been repaired ; new hot-beds have been built in addition to the greenhouses, and many improvements have been made on the buildings and grounds. The number of interments for 1891, including January, 1892, was as follows, viz. : |