1854 Trustee Committee on Statuary: Legal Opinion on Statuary Appropriation (page 05)

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section you might properly allow the heir of any of
our military heroes to hang the trophies of his father's
victories above a mural tablet in the Chapel, and
the same might afterwards be given in trust to
your care. Other memorials of the worthy dead
might thus gradually accumulate under your
care, and eventually the number of these relics
of various kinds may make up such a collection
as you would not be authorized ^ in the first instance ^ to establish as
^ an independent thing as an embellishment of the Cemetery. An "embel-
lishment" of the Cemetery in the 10th section, -
means, we think, an embellishment appropriate
to, and in harmony with the place.

These distinctions, though perhaps not at
first obvious, are important. Smaller ones
have been made the foundation of decisions in
many instances connected with the execution of
trusts. In one instance where property was
given in trust to repair a chapel, a grave doubt
was expressed as to the propriety of expending
any portion of the large accumulated income in
the fittings up of the Chapel. 1. Anstruther Ref.
Attorney General vs. Forster. And funds for a
"grammar school" / which ^ in England means technically
in a school for instruction in English, Greek
and Latin) cannot, though amply sufficient,
be applied to the support of instruction in the

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Par. 1 l. 10 -- [independent? this..y?]
Par. 2 l. 9 -- [Ref.?]
Par. 2 l. 10 -- [Foyster?]