Trustees Records, Volume 2, 1854 (page 008)

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"ments of the person, virtue is an embellishment of the
"mind, and liberal arts ar an embellishment of so-
"ciety". and we think commemorative statues are
an embellishment of a Cemetery.

There are other arguments which might be drawn
from the express language of the Act of 1831, which
would tend to confirm the opinion which we have
thus expressed; but we do not think it necessary
at present to adduce them, since the legality
of the appropriation is sufficiently sustained even
by the clause in which the limitations upon the
powers of the existing Corporation were created.

Boston. Sept. 30 1854 (Signed)

Charles P. Curtis
Henry M. Parker

A true copy, recorded by order of the Trustees
Attest. Henry M. Parker, Secretary.

On the same day in which the above opinion was read to
the Trustees, Dr. Bigelow filed with the Secretary the follow-
ing paper, annexed to an attested copy of the vote referred
to in the above opinion. Attest Henry M. Parker. Secretary

- Copy -

On the above named conditions, the subscribers, trustees of
Mount Auburn Cemetery, approve the appropriation of fifteen
thousand dollars as above specified for the above named
objects (Signed) Jacob Bigelow, James Read, Isaiah
Bangs, B. A. Gould. Charles P. Curtis. Charles C. Little. Geo. H. Kuhn