The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-15
MEETING OF LOT OWNERS
OF EVERGREEN CEMETERY HELD
 LAST NIGHT.

Secretary, Treasurer and Auditing Com
 mittee Submiited-Matter of Riding Bi-
 cycles Referred to Board of Directors
 With Power to Act. The annual meeting of the lot owners of Evergreen cemetery was held last night in the office of the secretary, Benjamin R. English, on Orange street. There was very large attendance. After the regular routine business the directors of last year were unanimous ly reelected. They are Burton Mans field, Benjamin R. English, James D. Dewell, Herbert c. Warren and George M. Grant.
 The auditing committee elected is composed of D. A. Gessner and J. P. Augur.
 Walter Leigh brought up the matter of riding bicycles in the cemetery grounds. He said that many poor peo- pie who own bicycles are lot owners, and that they ought to be allowed to ride in the cemetery roads at mod crate rate of speed. He didn't see why any more damage was done by the riding of bicycles than by the driving of horses and wagons.
 Several persons objected to the same, one of whom was J. D. Dewell. He said that on nice days there would probably be 200 or 300 wheels in the cemetery and that they would be in- clined to ride fast much rather than slow.
 On motion it was voted to refer the matter to the board of directors with power to act.
 An attempt to change the time of the annual meeting from February to April was unsuccessful.
 A special meeting will be held in the near future, at which time the issuance of per cent. bonds and the cancella- tion of some outstanding 6 per cent. bonds will be considered. The money raised on the per cent. bonds will be used to erect new chapel iu the cem- etery to cost about $15,O00..
 The reports of the board of directors, secretary, treasurer and auditors fol- low:
 The Forty ninth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Evergreen Cemetery Association:
 To the Lot Owners of Evergreen Cemetery-In our last annual report your directors called your attention, as | we had frequently done before, to the great and immediate need for a new chapel, and urged upon you the destra- bility of procuring such a building as | oiy a y1n We also said that we had asked per- mission from the legislature to issue, subject to your approval, requisite | amount of bonds, or certificates of 1n- debtedness, to meet, with the funds on hand, the necessary expense: Such permission was granted by an act of the legislature passed May IS, 1897, as follows:
 Resolved by this assembly: Section l. That for the purpose of defraying the cost of additional land for extending the grounds of the Ever green Cemetery association of New Haven, and for meeting the additional expense of improving and developing l said extension, and for building chap | el for the uses and purposes of said
 association, and also for retiring any | of it's notes, bonds or certificates of | debt or other obligations now outstand- ing, said association is hereby author | ized and empowered to issue notes
 bonds or certificates of debt to an
 amount not exceeding the sum of fifty | thousand dollars, at a rate of interest
 not exceeding five per centum per an
 mum, the principal of which shall be | payable at some fixed time or times not
 exceeding thirty years from the date | hereof. Each of said notes, bonds oI | certificates of debt hereby authorized may be issued in such form and
 amounts and the payment of the prin-
 cipal and interest thereof may be fixeG l at such time or times as shall be pre-
 scribed by said association in lega
 meeting called for that purpose, anC | the rate of interest thereon may be
 fixed in the same manner. Said notes | bonds or certificates of debt shall be
 signed by the president and treasurer l of said association, and the treasurer
 shall register the number and amount
 of each note, bond or certificate of debt | on it's records. Said notes, bonds ol
 certificates of debt when issued shal | De Tree lIOIl letSdllOIi, anu SIldll De-
 come the legal obligations of said as.
 sociation according to the purport an6 1 tenor thereof.
 Section 2. Said association upon the
 issue of said notes, bonds or certificates of debt shall advertise the same fol
 sale in at least two daily newspapers
 published in the city of New Haver
 for not less than one week, and shal | dispose of the same to the person ol
 persons who shall pay the highest price
 therefor; provided. however, that none
 of said notes, bonds or certificates oi
 debt shall be sold at any time at less
 than their par value"
 The necessary authority therefore 1 having been obtained, we recommend
 that steps be taken immediately to-
 wards issuing the associations notes I or certificates of indebtedness, for the
 purpose of building a chapel.
 The fund now on hand for this pur
 pose amounts to about seventy-fivt hundred (S7,5Oo) dollars, and at leas
 as much more will be required in order
 to procure a chapel, such as the asso
 citation needs.
 At the same time we would further
 recommend the issue of new notes, ol 1 certificates of indebtedness, with which
 to take up those of the association now outstanding and amounting to twelve
 thousand five hundred (s12,5 ,500) dollars
 Those now outstanding bear interest a