Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the City Government and Citizens of Roxbury, at the Consecration of the Cemetery at Forest Hills, June 28, 1848 The Report of a Committee of the City Council, presented in September last, and since widely distributed, sets forth fully the advantages and the necessity of a Rural Cemetery, to be established within the limits of this city. With brief delay, justified by the important financial questions connected with the subject, the Municipal Author ities have made liberal provision for the object. Their design has been carried out thus far with energy and good judgment by those intrusted with the conduct of it, and the result is before and around us, or rather that effective be ginning which guarantees the progressive accomplishment Of the object desired. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.