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lives, beneath the shade of the trees in this secluded forest. It will 

 become the place of burial tor the University. Here will the dust of 

 the young men, wlio mny be cut off before their academic course is 

 run, be laid by their class-mates. Here will be deposited tliose who 

 may die in the offices of instruction and government. Nor is it impos- 

 sible, that the several class-associations, which form a beautiful feature 

 of our college life, may each appropriate to tiiemselves a lot, where 

 such of their brethren as may desire it, may be brought back to he 

 deposited in the soil of the spot where they passed their early years. 



The establishment contemplated will afford the means of paying a 

 tribute of respect, by a monumental erection, to the names and memory 

 of great and good men, whenever or wherever they have died. Its 

 summit may be consecrated to Washington, by a cenotaph inscribed 

 with his name. Public sentiment will often delight in these tributes 

 of respect, and the place niay gradually become the honorary mauso- 

 leum for the distinguished sons of Massachusetts. 



This design, though but recently made public, has been long in 

 contemplation, and, as is believed, has been favored with unusual 

 approbation. It has drawn forth much unsolicited and earnest con- 

 currence. It has touched a chord of sympathy which vibrates in every 

 heart. Let us take an affectionate and pious care of our dead ; let 

 us turn to some good account, in softening and humanizing the public 

 feeling, that sentiment of tenderness toward the departed, which is 

 natural and ineradicable in man. Let us employ some of the super- 

 fluous wealth, now often expended in luxury worse than useless, in 

 rendering the place where our beloved friends repose, decent, attrac- 

 tive, and grateful at once to the eye and the heart. 



At a meeting of the Horticultural Society on the second of July, the 

 following additional act was accepted. 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

 In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. 

 An Act, in addition to an Act entitled, " An Act to incorporate the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society." 

 Section I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 

 in General Court assembled, and bjj the authority of the same, That the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society be, and hereby are, authorized, in 

 addition to the powers already conferred on them, to dedicate and 

 appropriate any part of the real estate now owned or hereafter to be 

 purchased by them, as and for a Rural Cemetery or Burying-Ground, 

 and for the erection of Tombs, Cenotaphs, or other Monuments, for, or 

 in memory of the dead ; and for this purpose, to lay out the same in 

 suitable lots or other subdivisions, for family and other burylng-places ; 

 and to plant and embellish the same with shrubbery, flowers, trees, 

 walks, and other rural ornaments, and to inclose and divide the same 

 wi'h proper walls and enclosures, and to make and annex thereto other 

 suitable appendages and conveniences, as the Society shall from time 

 to time deem expedient. And whenever the said Society shall so lay 

 out and appropriate any of their real estate for a Cemetery or Burying- 

 Ground, as aforesaid, the same shall be deemed a perpetual dedication 

 thereof for the purposes aforesaid ; and the real estate so dedicated 



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