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CHANGE OF LOCATION. 



As the removal of the grounds from Dedham to Readville 

 marks a new era in the history of the Society, the following 

 brief statement of the proceedings in reference thereto is here- 

 with given. 



At the regular autumnal meeting of the Trustees, held Nov. 

 19th, 1<^67, the Secretary offered a proposition for the selection 

 of a committee for the purpose of making all necessary in- 

 quiries with reference to a change of location of the Society's 

 grounds, the committee to report either at the annual meeting 

 in March, or if necessary, to a meeting specially called for the 

 purpose. After remarks by the mover, and by several gentle- 

 men, all in favor of the proposition, the vote was unanimously 

 adopted, and the following gentlemen were constituted the 

 committee : — Marshal P. Wilder, Dorchester ; William R. 

 Mann, Sharon ; Otis Gary, Foxborough ; Axel Dearborn, Boston ; 

 Joseph H. Billings, West Roxbury ; Eliphalet Stone, Dedham ; 

 Albert Tirrell, • Weymouth ; Henry 0. Hildreth, Dedham ; 

 Augustus B. Endicott, Dedham ; Chauncey C. Churchill, Ded- 

 ham ; John D. Bradlee, Milton. 



At the annual meeting of the Society, held March 25th, 1868, 

 the committee was further enlarged by the addition of Erastus 

 L. Metcalf of Franklin, and Thomas Decatur of West Roxbury, 

 and the committee were authorized to make such purchases, on 

 such terms, and at such prices, as they might deem for the best 

 interests of the Society, and if, in their judgment deemed ex- 

 pedient, to make sale of the real estate and buildings of the 

 Society, upon such terms as they might deem best. 



In pursuance of the authority thus given, the committee sold 

 the real estate and buildings in Dedham, to Edward S. Rand, Jr., 

 Esq., and purchased of Hon. John S. Eldridge and Henry N. 

 Farwell, twenty-eight and one-half acres of land and twenty- 

 two of the barrack buildings, on what was known as the Camp 

 Ground, at Readville. 



