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and executed contracts with responsible parties for the 

 entire construction of the building within the amount to 

 which they were limited. In the plan submitted to the 

 Society the Tremont Street fagade only was of granite, 

 and the Bromfield Street and Montgomery Place fagades 

 of brick ; but the committee had the pleasure of in- 

 forming the Society, that, notwithstanding the very 

 important alteration they had made, in substituting 

 Concord granite for the two sides, the estimate for which 

 was about $5,000, they had been enabled to secure for 

 the Society a beautiful granite structure throughout for 

 the sum of $104,630. On the 2d of April the Society 

 voted to place all its available funds at the disposal of 

 the president and Finance Committee, for the erection 

 of the new building. At the meeting on the 7th of 

 May, the treasurer stated that the Montgomery House 

 had been formally given up by the lessee. The demoli- 

 tion of the old building and the erection of the new 

 were commenced immediately after. 



By the 13th of August the work had so far pro- 

 gressed that a special meeting of the Society was called 

 to make arrangements for laying the corner stone. 

 The president stated, that, while it was not the desire 

 of the committee to make any ostentatious display, 

 the importance of the building was such as to render 

 it proper that the corner stone should be laid with 

 appropriate ceremonies. A committee was accordingly 

 appointed to make the necessary arrangements, agree- 

 ably to which his Honor Mayor Lincoln, and members 

 of the City Government, the members of the Massa- 

 chusetts Charitable Mechanic Association and of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History, the trustees of 

 Mount Auburn Cemetery, the members of the Mass a- 



