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At the first meeting of the Garden and Cemetery Committee, 

 H. A. S. Dearborn, Jacob Bigelow, and G. W. Brimmer were ap- 

 pointed a sub-committee to report a plan for laying out the grounds; 

 and the Hon. Joseph Story, the Rev. Dr. Lowell, and otiiers were 

 instructed to report on t!ie propriety of consc'-rating the Cemetery by 

 religious ceremonies, who submitted the following: 



At a meeting of the Horticultural Society the following Report, 

 from a committee chosen by the subscribers to the Cemetery, was 

 made by the Hon. Judge Story. 



The committee, appointed at a meeting of the subscribers to the 

 Mount Auburn Cemetery, to consider jind report to the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, whether it is expedient to have any, and if any, 

 what religious ceremonies, for the purpose of consecrating the said 

 Cemetery, have had that subject under consideration, and beg leave 

 respectfully to report to the said Society : 



1. That, in the opijion of the committee, it is expedient to have the 

 said Cemetery consecrated by religious ceremonies on Saturday the 

 twenty-fourth day of September instant, in the afternoon, at Mount 

 Auburn. And if that day should not be fair, then on the next fair 

 day, excluding Sunday. 



2. That the religious ceremonies proper for the occasion would be 



An Introductory Prayer, 



An Address, and 



A Closing Prayer, 

 with an original Hymn to be sung by the Assembly, and other ap- 

 propriate music. 



3. That the choice of the persons to officiate at the religious ceremo- 

 nies of consecration, and all other arrangements suitable for the 

 occasion, should be made by a committee of arrangements, to be 

 chosen by the Horticultural Society, with full powers for that purpose. 



4. That the committee of arrangements should have full power to 

 fill all vacancies occurring in their own body, and to appoint all suit- 

 able officers to assist them in the discharge of their duties ; and that 

 they should give due public notice of the order of their arrangements 

 when they shall have been completed. 



All which is respectfully submitted. 



JOSEPH STORY, 

 By order of the Committee. 



Voted, That the Report be accepted. 



Resolved, That a Consecrating Committee of nine members be 

 chosen. 



The following gentlemen were elected : Hon. Joseph Story, Henry 

 A. S. Dearborn, Charles P. Curtis, Rev. Charles Lowell, Zebedee 

 Cook, Jr., J. T. Buckingham, George W. Brimmer, George W. Pratt, 

 Z. B. Adams. 



At a meeting of the committed above named, on the same day, 



It was ordered, that Messrs. Curtis, Buckingham, and Pratt be a 

 committee to invite the orator and clergyman, and to provide an ap- 

 propriate hymn and suitable music, for the dedication of the Cemetery. 

 1^: Voted, That General Dearborn, Mr. Brimmer, and Mr. Cook be a 

 committee to prepare the grounds at Mount Auburn, and to make 

 arrangements for the accommodation of the company. 



