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ation of their fellow citizens, before making any recommenda- 

 tion in regard to the further improvement or final disposition 

 of this portion of the public lands entrusted to their care. 



The peculiar location and unsatisfactory condition of Wash- 

 ington Park demanded, and have received, a more particular 

 consideration. A plan for its improvement has been prepared 

 by our landscape architects, "which, with their report thereon, 

 will be found appended to this report. The Commissioners 

 think it will be perused with as much satisfaction by our citizens 

 generally, as it has been by the Board. The report will speak for 

 itself; but the Commissioners take this opportunity of directing 

 attention more particularly to a feature of the design which 

 was suggested by a resolution of the Common Council, request- 

 ing that a suitable vault should be prepared for the reception 

 of the remains of the Prison-ship Martyrs, preliminary to the 

 erection of a monument to their memory. They have, it will 

 be seen, accordingly provided for the construction of a suitable 

 vault, which shall furnish a permanent resting place for the 

 remains of those martyrs to civil liberty, whose memories are 

 enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen ; and they trust 

 that the ultimate object of the resolution will, in due time be 

 accomplished by the erection of a monumental structure which, 

 while it pays just tribute to the honored dead, cannot fail to be 

 creditable to our city, as well as ornamental to the beautiful 

 park in which it is proposed to be erected. The cherished 

 remains, having then found their long-sought asylum, will, un- 

 der the protection of a grateful country, at length rest in 

 peace. 



Dated January 11th, 1SGS. 



JAMES S. T. STEAXAHAX, 



President. 



AVALTEE S. GEIFFITH, 



Secretary. 

 JOIIX X. TAYLOE, 



Comptroller. 



