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Show Tho natural inference to be drawn from the foregoing Is that the Citj sexton would like to have the City Council prowde for nn annual as-xsment as-xsment of $7.50 on each burial lot in the t'itj Cemetery, to be expended expend-ed under hb direction in improving and keeping the same in order. There are 142 acres in the cemetery enclosure, of which not less than about 100 acres have been sold in burial lots. Deducting streets there are abou 1 1 00 burial Iote i u each acre. Thb gives a total of about 10,-003 10,-003 butlal lob in the cemetery that have been plotted and sold. An annual assessment of S7.50 levied on each buriar lot would yield a yearly revenue of $75,000. Of coun-e the owners ofa great many lots would be unable or unwilling to pay the sum per lot named by Sexton Dunne; but It seems to us that only a small p:o-jortion p:o-jortion of them would need to pay it in order to put tho entire cemetery ceme-tery in appie-ple order. What kind of labor tbo City Sexton Sex-ton expects to employ, or what kind of material he expects to use, Inputting Input-ting the cemetery in the condition in which his lesthetic taste would like to see it, we do not know. If he intends in-tends to employ a corps of sculptors of the Bertholdi school to carve a monument for each grave, from unadulterated un-adulterated Italian marble, then hb estimate of $75,000 to be spent each year in beautifying the city of the dead over which he presides, b not an extravagant one. But an expense of SI50 per month for keeping an aero of land lu order, will strike agriculturists generally as pretty steep. Kltlicr remarkably high wages, or Improvements and ornamentation of an exceedingly lavish character, would seem to be contemplated. |