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have been feared if she insisted on sharing in the lottery 
mainly designed for the new colleges. Columbia had 
already been considering the question of removal; * and the 
garden grounds would certainly be useful to her at some time, 
either for sale or for her own occupancy on removal; and 
her acceptance of the land instead of money would leave 
larger sums for the other institutions. Some such considera- 
tions, no doubt earnestly pressed, probably led to the reluc- 
tant acceptance by Dr. Mason of the disguised treasure, 
which the trustees naturally enough at that time but lightly 
esteemed. 
Tue GARDEN 1N CoLumBIA’s Hanns. 
The grant of 1814 encumbered by the condition of re- 
moval, was not available for raising money by sale or mort- 
gage, and ‘* was not considered by the trustees an attractive 
or helpful gift.”+ They did not take formal possession until 
October, 1816, two years and a half after the grant, when 
repairs for the winter being needed, possession was tendered 
by the College of Physicians and Surgeons and accepted by 
Columbia. t 
There was no intention of a continued maintenance of the 
garden; but it was thought that if the condition of removal 
were repealed, an advantageous sale or exchange might be 
effected. Urgent memorials were accordingly addressed to 
the legislature in 1817, 1818, and 1819 for the repeal of that 
condition, the last being successful, with a further gift of 
$10,000, as the act of 1814 ‘*had not been productive,” as 
the preamble recites, ‘‘ of the benefit intended.” § The select 
legislative committee that considered the application in 1819, 
reported that the act of 1814 was intended to give relief to 
Columbia equal to the $40,000 given to a sister institution 
{Hamilton College]; that by depreciation the grounds were 
not of one fourth the value supposed; that as a mere botan- 
* Moore’s Hist. of Columbia Col., 82. 1846. 
+ Hist. Columbia Un., 36. 1904. 
{ Trustees’ Min. Col. pets and S.,2: Sept. 27, 1816; Trustees’ Min. 
Columbia Col., 2: 477- 
2 Laws, 1819, Ch. 19; ees Min. Columbia Col., 2: 423, 477, 493. 
