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property so taken, either in equity, or by due process of 

 law. llespectliilly submitted, 



Samuel E. Sawyek. 

 Witness, E. E. Patridge. 



I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of 

 the protest made and presented to James W. Kicker, 

 City Collectoi', this twenty-ninth day of December, 1883. 



Signed, E. E. Patr[dge. 



The following letter was written on the receipt of a 

 notice from the park commissioners, dated May 2, 1881, 

 stating that they had also taken all of Montglade, on 

 the western side of Walnut avenue, embi-acjing the 

 property on Glenroad and Kavenswood Park, with their 

 charming forests, lovely lawns, and domes of stone, con- 

 taining 1,192,510 square feet of land, which was like 

 taking the apiAa of my eye. 



Boston, May 15, 1881. 

 Messrs. Charles H. Daltox, 

 William Gray, Jr., 

 Henry Lee, 



Park Commissioners : 



Oentlemen: — Although I firmly protest and remon- 

 strate against the exercise of such arbitrai-y power that 

 deprives me, without my lief or consent, of a large, 

 elegant, and very valuable property, yet when I consider 

 its position in relation to other sections of the park 

 domain, its only elevated hills, its charming terraces, its 

 views of the valley of Jamaica Plain, and the city of 

 Boston in the distance on the north, and on the south 



