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gested by a resolution of the Common Council, requesting 

 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 will ever be 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 cred- 

 itable 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, 

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

 peace. 



Dated January 14th, 1868. 



JAMES S. T. STRANAHAN, 



Peesideist. 



WxYLTER S. GRIFFITH, 



Seceetaey. 



JOHN N. TAYLOR, 



COMPTEOLLEE. 



