Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-20
The CIty sexton,s Animal Reports.

Below are the Annual Financial and In-
tsrment Reports of the City Sexton, for the
year ending March s1st, 1864, as submitted
to the Council last evening:
FINANCIAL REPORT.
To she Honorable he City Council of the City
Of Cieueiand
On the 14th day of April, A. D, 1868, I
entered upon the discharge Of the duties Of
the Office of City Sexton of the City Of
Cleveland. Sines that time the receipts of
the office, from all sources, have been SIS, ,8S2
made up as follows
Received for lots in Woodland Cemetery So, ,234.7
Received for lots in West Side Cemetery 1882 so
Received for lots in Old City Cemetery 226 90
Received for Intern ents in Woodland
Cemetery 1Z3UO
Received for Interments in City Gene
S65 90
Received for the use Of the City Vault. 17l5O
Collections old 49375
Received for improving lots............--.- 2S9C0
Received for 102o0
Received for Wood from Woodland. 43OO
Amount paid City Treasurer las per
vouchers S. $500
The amount paid for labor during the same
| tina has been 81, ,422 90, detailed account
of which will be found in the monthly pay
rolls, which 1 have already returned to
your HonOrs. For the amount paid for the
purchase of vault, tools, etc, see Auditors
report. Although the expenditures show
some increase, which is fully accounted for,
by the advance in the price of labor and by
the greater amount of labor rendered neees-
sary during the past year, yet it is CRAFTY
ing to be able to show that the amount real
lied TO tbs City from the Cemetery fund,
| shows a large increase over former years.
| By n comparison with the last three years,
| prior to the commencement of my term, it
will be seen, by reference to the Auditors
Annual Reports, that that the total receipts
of the Cemetery Fund, from all sources, dur
ing tho whole Of those years, was $40, ,225 20,
| while for the pastyoar alone, they have been
as above shown, SS,sS2.
As most of the desirable lots in Woodland
Cemetery have been disposed Of, it becomes
necessary to lay out, grade and gravel ave-
uues and walks, in several new sections.
With the approval Of the Committee on Parks
and Public Grounds, the north-hsIf Thirty
acres) of " Woodland " has been cleared of
underbrush and very much improved.
To comply with urgont requests for lots in
| the Erie Street Cemetery, l caused twenty
lots to be laid out, eight by ten feet, by mar
rowing a wide avenue passing through the
" Free Ground" )" most Of which lots are al
ready disposed of.
I found the practice established Of taking
notes for ODe-hslf the purchase price of lots
running six months,-in accordance with
which, now hold notes to the amount of
S642.75. 1t has been customary ever since
the annexation Of the Ohio City to the
City of Cleveland, to allow the Deputy Sex
ton, in charge of the Wost Side Cemetery, to
receive tho amounts paid for interments and
per centsge for tho sale of lots therein.
This custom have not changed and it still
continues.
It would be desirable that tho new Sec
tions, laid out in " Woodland" should be
ornamented with shrubs and evergreens, as
well to promote sales Of the new lots as to
besutify a place so sacred and dear to all.
1t would be great improvement, if pro-
vision were made, by extending wster-pipss
or otherwise, for a constant supply ef water
at " Woodland" inssmueh as the VOLS
upon which we rely, become dry in the latter
part of summer, making it necessary to bring
water from considerable distance.
I would also call attention to the neoessi-
ty of rebuilding the fences on tho north and
south sides of Erie Street Cemetery, All of
which is respectfully submitted.
A. 6. STEDMAN, City Sexton,