To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco: Gentlemen: I have the honor to herewith submit to your Honorable Body a report of the affairs of the City Cemetery for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879. The lots donated by your Honorable Body, during the past twelve months, to the following benevolent societies: Ohabai Shalome, Master Mariners', Italian Benevolent, Netherland and Congregation Sherith Israel, have been improved and inclosed with picket fences, as ordered by resolution of your Board. I would respectfully call the attention of your Honorable Body to the following much needed improvements: The main avenue of the Cemetery is greatly in need of macadamizing; its present sandy condition rendering it difficult of passage, both to pedestrians and carriages. This much-needed improvement could be made at a merely nominal expense, as there is a fine quarry of red stone at one side of the entrance, from which the macadam can be obtained. Several of the societies have signified a desire to improve the avenues surrounding their lots; and are but awaiting the improvement of the main avenue. The rail fence surrounding the Cemetery should be rebuilt, as many of the posts have decayed at their base. I would suggest that a picket fence be built on the front or southerly side, which, if whitewashed, would add greatly to the improvement and appearance of the Cemetery- the present fence could be utilized in the repairing of that at the read and sids of the grounds. The house of the Keeper should be repaired and renovated, as it is ia very dilapidated condition; and without a much needed office for the transaction of the business of the Cemetery. As a matter of economy the above improvements should be made with a protracted delay. During the year the expenses of the Cemetery have been as follows- Cost of head and foot boards...............$534.50 OPERATIONS Number of interments by the City 404 Number of Chinese 17 Number of blacks 10 Number of disinterments 2 INTERMENTS BY SOCIETIES Chinese Companies 521 Christianized Chinese 3 Beth Olam 8 A.P. STANYON, Keeper of the City Cemetery SF Muni Report, 1878-79 ==================== Carolyn