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REPORT OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE. 



At a quarterly meeting of the Society, held January 2, 1864, 

 on motion of C. O. Whitmore, a Committee of Nine, of which 

 the President should be Chairman, was appointed to consider 

 the expediency of erecting a building on the Montgomery 

 House estate, and report the probable cost of the same. 



The President, 



JosiAH Stickney, 



C. O. Whitmore, 



M. P. Wilder, 



J. S. Cabot, 



W. R. Austin, 



H. H. Hunnewell, 



J. F. C. Hyde, and 



L. Wetherell, 

 were nominated and unanimously chosen. 



At the meeting of the Society, February 6th, the Building 

 Committee made the following Report : 



The Committee to whom was referred the subject of the ex- 

 pediency of erecting a building on the Montgomery House 

 estate, recently purchased by the Society, and the probable 

 expense of the same, have attended to that duty, and submit 

 the following Report : 



Your Committee consider the subject referred to them of 

 very great importance to the Society, and they have endeavored 

 to give it the thorough deliberation and investigation its impor- 

 tance demands. A portion of the Committee having previously 

 examined the subject and made a general report, they were 

 desirous that other gentlemen, fresh from the Society, should 

 cooperate with them, and carefully examine the whole question 

 of building, and give such an opinion as Avould enable every 

 member to cast a satisfactory vote when brought before the 

 Society. 



