1856-04-21 Trustee Committee on Statuary: Majority Report, 1831.039.003-004- p1

The Committee appointed "to examine
consider & report whether any or all
of the contracts for making Statuary for
the Chapel can be rescinded" have met
& considered the subject referred to them,
& and a majority of the Committee report -
that although a legal contract can be
rescinded by the consent of both the parties
to it, one of the parties cannot do so:
He may repudiate or break the contract,
subjecting himself of course to reclamation
by the other party, but he cannot rescind
it. - As the Artists with whom the
contracts for Statuary have been made are
in Italy, it has not been possible to con-
sult them touching the descission [sic] of their
engagements ^with this Corporation; - But as this might be
done in a few weeks, the undersigned
deem it proper to express the opinion
that they do not consider it expedient
to take any further ^steps in this matter. -

Whether, if the purchase of Statuary
for the Cemetery were now an open ques-
tion, it were expedient to do so make such purchase as a very
different one from that of rescinding contracts
made many months since, upon which