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How consoling tlie reflection that, when we have finished our 

 earthly work, and our ashes repose beneath the green turf and 

 leafy bowers of Mt. Auburn, this elegant building shall be the 

 enduring memento of the intelligence and wisdom which formed 

 that sacred garden of the dead, aAvay from the busy haunts of 

 the living. In this temple, dedicated to the elegant art of hor- 

 ticulture we shall transmit to our successors a record of our 

 earnest labors to accomplish the two-fold task of decorating and 

 beautifying our homes while living, and of adorning and conse- 

 crating; our homes in death. 



Entertaining these views your Committee would recommend 

 the passage of the following Resolutions : 



Resolved^ That the present Committee be constituted a Build- 

 ing Committee, and that they be, and are hereby authorized 

 and directed to proceed with the erection of a building on the 

 Montgomery House estate, recently purchased by the Society, 

 according to the plans, specifications, and estimates, prepared 

 by Gridley J. F. Bryant, Esq., approved by the Committee, 

 and now submitted to the Society, and that they have full 

 power to enter into and make all contracts and agreements, in 

 the name of the Society, necessary for the erection and comple- 

 tion of said building. 



Resolved, That the Committee now having in charge the 

 Montgomery House estate be authorized and directed to termi- 

 nate the present lease on the first of May next. 



C. M. HOVEY, 



JosiAii Stickxey, 

 Marshall P. Wilder, 



C. O. WlIITMORE, 



Wm. R. Austin, 

 h. ii. hunxewell, 

 James F. C. Hyde, 

 Leander Wetherell, 

 JosERii S. Cabot, 



Committee on Building. 

 Boston, Feb. 6th, 1864. 



