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be saved to the Corporation. -

Your Committee have ^^{The undersigned has} looked into
this subject and they finds it to stand
substantially thus: contracts have been entered
into with Randolph Rogers for a Statue of
John Adams - at a cost of $5000 - on
which $1000. have been paid - with Richard
S. Greenough for a Statue of Gov. Winthrop
at a cost of $5000. on which $1000 have
been paid. - and the preliminary to a
contract with Thomas Crawford for a Statue
of James Otis at a cost of $5000 on
which nothing has been paid. -

We are told that this Statuary was one
of the original designs of the founders of
Mount Auburn - This may or may not have
been the case. - But if it were so, the
Committee ^ ^undersigned can see in that fact no good
reason why the design should be carried
out if it be inexpedient to do so. - That
such however was the original design the
Committee would hardly ^ ^be gathered from the language
of Judge Story as quoted in the legal opinion
before referred to, or if it were the design _that