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250
31
30
61
20
.33
.31
Northville
Joseph W. Bixby,
*36
30
37
67
52
.49
.79
Chamberlain
Martha W. Barnes,
250
11
18
29
19
.52
.65
North Pond.
Frances Bates,
+7
23
16
39
21
.62
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The foregoing is a complete catalogue of the public schools of this City, with the names of the teachers under whose care they were left by the Committee of 1855, the salaries of the teachers as fixed at their re- election, and the attendance at the schools during the year.
*Per month.
tPer week.
#Approximate.
Ratio of attendance.
Eliza A. B. Brigham,
250
Caroline E. Putnam,
250
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GRAMMAR SCHOOL EXAMINATION.
The following are the questions used in the first department of the Thomas' Grammar school at the written examination in December. With each set of questions is given the number of pupils in the class examined, the highest and lowest percentage of correct answers given, the average percentage of the whole classs, and the number of perfect papers.
ARITHMETIC, 1st CLASS.
From 728205 take fifty-one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight billionths.
Multiply twenty-five cents by twenty-five cents.
Divide 27 by .003. Divide .0270 by 2.2.
Reduce 6 feet to the decimal of a mile.
How many ounces in 20 lbs. of gold ? How many in a ton of hay ?
Find the prime factors of 1327. 5940.
At $7 1-2 per cord, what will a load of wood cost that is 7 1-2 feet long, 4 feet 2 inches wide, and 3 feet 9 inches high ?
What is the interest of $362.51 for 2 years 4 months and 17 days, at 1 1-2 per cent. per month ?
I have a lot of land 25 rods on one side, and containing 20 acres ; how many steps of 3 feet each, must a man take in passing around the entire lot ?
How many feet distant are the two opposite corners of the above named lot ?
Whole number examined 8
Highest ,80
Lowest ,40
Average of the class ,63
ARITHMETIC, 2d CLASS.
Write out in words the following numbers, 10100081010.1234567.
Multiply 3207.63 by .0005.
Multiply 2-3 by 3 3-8.
Divide 1-2 by 16-40.
How many half dimes are there in 4 eagles ?
How many seconds in the month of February 1852 ?
In 2 miles, 3 furlongs, 30 rods, 12 feet, how many inches ?
If I sell 5 shares Rail Road stock, which cost me $87 5-8 per share, at an advance of 3-4 per cent. how much do I gain by the sale ?
A man bought a house lot for $1.22 per foot, at what price per foot must he sell it in order to gain 37 per cent. ?
How many rolls of paper 3 yards long and 18 inches wide, will it take to paper a room 10 X 12 feet, with walls 8 feet high ; the room having a door 3 × 7 feet, and 2 windows 3 × 6 feet ?
Whole number examined 12
Highest ,90
Lowest ,40
Average of the class ,67
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ARITHMETIC, 3d CLASS.
Express in figures the following numbers-one hundred and one thousand and one hundred and one thousandth.
What is seventeen thirty-fourths of the sum of the following num- bers? 7062, 21.017, 1.976784 ?
Take one mill from $1000.
The product of 68 X 9.0172 is what ?
What number multiplied by .011 will produce 968 ?
Write an example of a simple fraction, a compound fraction, a com- plex fraction, an improper fraction, and a mixed number.
Reduce 7-9, 6-12, 5-15 to a common denominator.
Reduce 5-8 to a decimal fraction.
What is the interest of $623 for 7 months, 6 days ?
A man bought a farm for $100, a yoke of cattle for $125, a cow or $30, at what price must he sell the whole to gain 9 per cent ?
Whole number examined 17
Highest
1,00
Lowest ,60
Average of the class
,86
Perfect papers 5
ARITHMETIC, 4th CLASS.
This class was examined by the same questions with the third class.
Whole number examined 11
Highest ,90
Lowest ,20
Average of the class ,51
GRAMMAR, Ist CLASS.
What is Language ?
Whence are derived the laws of Grammar ?
Distinguish between a common, and a proper noun ?
Why are Pronouns used ?
How do you know that a noun is in the nominative rather than the objective case ?
Why is "She is more benevolent" a better expression than "She is benevolenter ?"
"I came to get your signature" is preferable to "I come for the pur- pose of obtaining your signature" for two reasons-what are they .?
Strictly speaking how many tenses are there ?
Write a trisyllable.
Correct, "I came for to converse with you."
Whole number examined 8
Highest ,98
Lowest ,73
Average of the class ,87 12
123
GRAMMAR, 2d CLASS.
Write a monosyllable, a polysyllable.
What is the difference between a noun and a verb ?
Give the rule for the formation of the plural of nouns.
Give the rule for the formation of the possessive case in both num- bers.
Give the feminine of "Sir," "Hero," "Sheep."
"The unceasing flow of time." What here is "unceasing" and why ?
Give three examples of transitive and three of intransitive verbs.
What is the distinction between the Subjunctive and Potential moods ? Conjugate "Break," Sweep," "Climb."
Correct "He went and done contrary to my orders."
Whole number examined 16
Highest
,93
Lowest ,41
Average ,69
GRAMMAR, 3d CLASS.
The same questions were used in the second, third and fourth classes.
Whole number examined 8
Highest ,97
Lowest ,69
Average ,85
GRAMMAR, 4th CLASS.
Whole number examined 9
Highest ,98
Lowest ,53
Average of the class ,65
GEOGRAPHY, Ist CLASS.
What is a great circle ?
The equator and any given meridian are called great circles, but which is actually the greater, and why ?
Why are the boundaries of the zones fixed at 23º 28' and 66º 32' north and south of the equator ?
Into how many branches is the Government of the United States divid- ed, and what are they called ?
How is each State represented in the congress of the U. S. ?
What is the Gulf Stream ?
Why are there no large rivers in Chili ?
What countries in Europe lie upon the Mediterranean Sea ?
Name the divisions in Africa lying upon the Mediterranean in their order, beginning on the west.
Bound Virginia.
Whole number examined 8
Highest ,90
Lowest ,68
Average ,81
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GEOGRAPHY, 2d CLASS.
Is the length of a degree of latitude always the same, or variable ?
In what respect is a degree of longitude always the same, and in what respect is it variable ?
What is the width of the North Temperate Zone ?
Whence is the sea supposed to derive its saltness?
What other circumstances beside latitude affect the temperature of places ?
Through what lakes, rivers and gulf do the waters of Lake Superior flow in reaching the ocean ?
What three capes on the coast of North Carolina, and which is most dangerous to navigation ?
Where is Cuba, to whom does it belong, and what is its capital ?
Where is Great Britain, and of what countries is it composed ?
Mention the countries of Europe with their capitals.
Whole number examined 16
Highest ,84
Lowest ,51
Average ,69
GEOGRAPHY, 3d CLASS.
Which is the largest state in N. E .- and what are the three chief sources of its wealth ?
Bound the largest state in the Union.
How many counties in Massachusetts-and what are their names ?
Name the least populous country in S. America, and tell why it is the least populous.
What country in South America has no capital, and why ?
What states are in the same latitude as Kansas ?
Name the capitals of Europe.
Where is Halifax ?
What countries are called the Levant ?
For what is China celebrated ?
Whole number examined 16
Highest ,81
Lowest ,43
Average ,63
The 4th class was not examined in Geography.
HISTORY, 1st CLASS.
Whatis the date of the first settlement in the United States ? Who were the first settlers of New England, and why did they come ? In what year did the war between the colonies and the French begin ? What was the Stamp Act ?
What was the Boston tea party ?
When did England acknowledge the independence of the colonies ?
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How many States were there at the close of the revolutionary war ? Who was the first President of the United States, and for how long ? When was war again declared against Great Britain ? Name the Presidents in their order ?
Whole number examined 8
Highest
1,00
Lowest
,74
Average
,88 1-2
Perfect Papers
1
HISTORY, 2d CLASS.
The same questions were given to this class as to the first.
Whole number examined
16
Highest ,90
Lowest
,50
Average ,72
The third and fourth classes were not examined in History.
SUMMARY.
Average of First Class in Arithmetic ,63
" Grammar
,87 1-2
66
" Geography ,81
,88 1-2
60
66
" All Studies ,80
Average of Second Class in Arithmetic
,67
66
66
66
" Grammar
,69
66
66
" Geography ,69
66
66
66
" History ,72
. 6
66
66
" All Studies ,69
Average of Third Class in Arithmetic ,86
66
" Grammar
,85
66
" Geography ,63
66
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66
" All Studies ,78
Average of Fourth Class in Arithmetic ,51
66 61
"' Grammar ,65
66
66
" Two Studies , 58
Average of the whole school ,71 1-4
Whole number of perfect papers
6
HIGH SCHOOL EXAMINATION.
The following are the questions used in the Classical and English High School at the written examination, which occurred on the second day of January, 1856.
SALLUST AND VIRGIL.
Compare magnus ; give the simple root, and show how the comparative and superlative are formed.
Compare superus ; explain the form of the superlative.
Give the four participles of relinquo, deleo, mitto, redeo, and fero.
What English words are derived from capio ? from trado ? what from the third root of vivo ?
66
" History
126
Translate into Latin the following sentences.
These priestesses of Vesta are not permitted to marry a husband. It is not every one who can heal the diseases of the mind.
It does not escape me how odious a thing impiety is to the good. May a christian thirst for honors ?
I pity the old man now almost given over.
What were the Sibylline Books?
What is the caesura of the foot ? of the rythm ? of the verse ?
What is the derivation of the term Dactyle ? of the term Spondee ? Mark the quantity of the vowels in the following.
Justum et tenacem propositi virum
Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni, Mente quatit solida neque Auster,
Dux inquieti turbidus Hadriæ, Nec fulminantis magna manus Jovis.
Translate the following.
Ceterum ingentia animi bona, illam indolem, qua omnes reges antecessit, illam in subeundis periculis constantiam, in rebus moliendis efficiendisque velocitatem, in deditos fidem, in captivos clementiam, in voluptatibus permissis quoque et usitatis temperantiam, haud tolerabili vini cupiditate foedavit. Hoste et aemulo regni reparante cummaxime bellum, nuper subactis quos vicerat, novumque imperium aspernantibus, de die inibat convivia. * * Omnes incaluerant mero : itaque surgunt temulenti ad incendendam urbem, cui armati pepercerant. Primus rex ignem regiae injecit, tum convivae et ministri. Multa cedro aedificata erat regia : quae celeriter igne concepto, late fudit incendium. Quod ubi exercitus, qui haud procul urbe tendebat, conspexit, fortuitum ratus, ad opem ferendam concurrit. Sed ut ad. vestibulum regiae ventum est, vident regem ipsum adhuc aggerentem faces. Omissa igitur, quam portaverant, aqua, aridam materiem in incendium jacere coeperunt.
Hunc exitum habuit regia totius Orientis, unde tot gentes antea jura petebant, patria tot regum, unicus quondam Graeciae terror, molita mille navium classem et exercitus, quibus Europa inundata est, contabulato mari molibus, perfossisque montibus, in quorum specus fretum immissum est.
Class in Sallust
3 members
General average
,81 per cent.
Class in Virgil 5 members
Highest
,92
Lowest ,45
Average of the class
,70
NEPOS.
What is the difference of meaning between creber and frequens ? What is the difference between sed, autem,vero, and at ?
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What distinction of meaning between the verbs spernere, contemnere, despicere, and aspernari ?
Mention three ways of expressing purpose after mittere or proficisci ?
To what words are homo and vir opposed ?
Where was the Hellespont? What is its modern name ?
What were the Ephori? How many in number ?
What figure of speech occurs in the sentence ductus non magis amore, quam more ?
What English words are derived from the first and third roots of convenio?
Translate into Latin the following sentences.
Is death an eternal sleep, or the beginning of another life ?
I will leave nothing undone to finish the business to your satisfaction.
Both you and I have lost a good opportunity.
Whole number examined 15
Highest
1,00
Lowest ,31
Average of the class
,70
Perfect papers 1
LATIN LESSONS.
Compare magnus, parvus, malus, bonus, similis, senex, vetus, and felix. Write the terminations of bonus in both numbers, and in all genders. What nine adjectives have ius in the genitive, and i in the dative ?
Into what three classes are numeral adjectives divided ? Cardinal num- bers answer what question ?
Decline domus and respublica.
How many special roots has a regular verb ? where are they found ?
What is the first root of eo ? When is it used in the inflection of this verb? What exception ?
What English words are derived from the third root of video ?
Inffect the verb fero in the indicative mode, present tense, of both voices.
Conjugate cano, cado, and caedo, and mark the quantity of the penult in the perfect indicative ; also conjugate lego, deleo, confodio, and contemno.
Whole number examined 25
Highest
1,00
Lowest ,03
Average ,71
Perfect papers 1
ALGEBRA.
Reduce a3 - ay2
a2 + 2 ay + y2 to its lowest terms.
Reduce , 9 and a 75 to a+ 5 -to a common denominator.
128
From 3a + - subtract 2a - 2. b
Multiply together a ++ a x a x
a - x - and x - a+ x
a x +b b x -a
idea XT by b 3 x
Express in words the Equation X
4 + 24 = 2.
ren 64 - 23 = 4, ar 2 x = 5 , and 7 - 9y 10, to find the values of x and 'y.
Find the square root of the polynomial 1 - 6y + 13y2 - 12y3 + 4y4.
Divide 4 ~ 12a by 2 ~ 6.
Find a number such that if it be divided by 12, twice the sum of its divisor, dividend and quotient, will be 128.
Ist Division-whole No. 17 2d Division-whole No. 10
Highest 1,00 Highest ,80
Lowest ,27 Lowest ,10
Average of Div. ,71 Average of Div. ,45
Perfect Papers 3
Whole number examined 27
Average of the whole ,61
GEOMETRY.
When four magnitudes are in proportion, show that equimultiples of the antecedents and equimultiples of the consequents will be propor- tional.
Give the enunciation and demonstration of the proposition concerning the area of a trapezoid.
Give the proposition in regard to the segments of two chords which in- tersect in a circle.
If two sides of a right angled triangle are 12 and 5, what is the hypoth- enuse ?
What regular polygon has its side equal to the radius of the circum- scribed circle ?
Prove that parallel lines included between parallel planes are equal?
If the altitude of a pyramid is 24 ; and its base a triangle whose alti- tude and base are 4 and 6, what is the solidity of the pyramid ?
Define a spherical segment, and a zone.
What formula will represent the solidity of a cone, if R be the radius of its base, and H its altitude ?
.
129
What is the ratio of the solidity of a sphere to that of the circum- scribed cylinder ?
Whole number examined 11
Highest 1,00
Lowest ,80
Average of class
,95
Perfect Papers
3
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
Name the parts of a common pump.
How high can water be raised in a common pump ? What causes it to rise ?
What is the Torricellian vacuum ?
To what depth must the earth be covered with mercury, to make it equal to the weight of the atmosphere? and how great would be its pressure upon a square inch ?
What is the weight of a cubic foot of water ? If a cubic foot of men- tal weighs 5500 ounces, what is its specific gravity ?
When a body falls, is its momentum uniform or variable ?
What is the law for the relation between the times and final velocities of falling bodies ? What for the spaces and times ?
What is a pendulum ? define the centre of oscillation.
Enumerate the mechanical powers, and give the general law of equilibrium in all.
What is the use of the speaking trumpet ? of the hearing trumpet ? of the stethoscope ?
Whole number examined 18
Highest 1,00
Lowest ,62
Average of class ,82
Perfect Papers 1
PHYSIOLOGY.
What is Hygiene ?
Of what are human bones composed ?
Name the bones of the fore arm, wrist, and hand ; name the corres- ponding bones of the lower limbs.
What is the use of a muscle ? of a tendon ?
What is the function of the veins ? of the arteries ?
Describe the heart.
What effect is produced upon the blood which is introduced into the lungs ? what upon the air that is inhaled ?
Name the different parts of the eye.
What do the principles of Physiology teach us respecting the use of tobacco, and intoxicating liquors ?
130
What practical rules of living are essential, in order to secure long life ?
Whole number examined 17
Highest 1,00
Lowest ,39
Average ,72
Perfect papers
2
FIRST AND SECOND CLASSES IN FRENCH.
He was guided by the force of his genius.
In everything we must consider the end.
Every age has its pleasures, every situation its charms.
Correct the false syntax in the following.
S'il est ordinaire d'être vivement touché des choses rares, pourquoi les sommes-nous si peu de la vertu ?
Il n'y a de supériorité réelle que celle donnée par le génie et la vertu. Into how many conjugations are the French verbs divided ?
Give the termination of the infinitive mode of each.
How many modes are there ? And how many tenses has each?
Conjugate the verb "Aller" in the Indicative Present. The verb "Faire" in the Past Definite.
Conjugate the verb "Boire" in the Indicative mode Imperfect tense. The verb "Savoir" in the Subjunctive Present.
Votre ennemi cruel devant vous se déclare,
C'est lui ; c'est ce ministre infidèle et barbare
Qui, d'un zèle trompeur à vos yeux revêtu,
Contre notre innocence arma votre vertu,
Et quel autre, grand Dieu ! Qu'un Scythe impitoyable
Aurait de tant d'horreurs dicté l'ordre effroyable ?
Partout l'affreux signal en même temps donné De meurtres remplira l'univers étonné ;
On verra, sous le nom du plus juste des princes,
Un perfide étranger désoler vos provinces ;
First class, of one member,
Rank ,99
Second class, of nine members,
Highest
(5 pupils)
,99
Lowest ,83
Average of class ,96
THIRD CLASS IN FRENCH.
I amuse myself in learning German and French.
Which way did your brother come from Germany ? Has the gardener anything good in his garden ? A qui vous adressez-vous quand vous avez besoin d'argent ! Il n'en fera rien à moins que vous ne lui parliez. Vous enuyez-vous souvent à la campagne ?
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Conjugate the verb "Croire" in the Indicative mode Past Definite. Conjugate the verb "Chanter" in the Conditional Present.
Conjugate the verb "Ecrire" in the Subjunctive Present.
A peine eus je parlé qu'il s'éleva daus toute l'assemblée un bruit sourd, semblable à celui des vagues de la mer qui s'entre-choquent dans une tempête. Les uns disaient ; Est-ce quelque divinité sous une figure hu- maine ?
D'autres soutenaient quils m'avaient vu en d'autres pays, et qu'ils me reconnaissaient. D'autres s'écriaient ; Il faut le contraindre de régner ici. Enfin, je repris la parole et chacun se hâta de se taire, ne sachant si je n'allais point accepter ce que j'avais refusé d'abord. Voici les paroles que je leur dis.
Whole number examined 9
Highest
,96
Lowest
,73
Average of class .,85
FOURTH CLASS IN FRENCH.
I have neither yours nor his. I have the stranger's.
Has the merchant tea, chocolate, sugar and pepper ?
Has my brother your pens or my cousin's ?
Is anything the matter with your brother ?
Je n'ai pas votre bouteille, j'ai la malle de votre soeur.
Le boulanger n'a pas de volaille, il a du lait.
N'avez-vous ni le livre ni le papier ?
Je n'ai ni le vôtre ni le mien, j'ai celui du matelot.
Conjugate the verb "Avoir" in the Subjunctive Imperfect.
Conjugate the verb "Etre" in the Indicative mode, Past Anterior. 1st Division
17
2d Division 14
Highest
1,00
Highest
,98
Lowest
,77
Lowest
,82
Average
,95
Average ,93
Perfect Papers
2
Number of whole class 31
General average ,94
REPORT
OF THE
COMMISSIONERS OF HOPE CEMETERY.
To the City Council of the City of Worcester :
The Commissioners of Hope Cemetery, pursuant to a provision in the Act of the Legislature under which the Board is constituted, respectfully present their second An- nual Report.
As early as the season would permit, the last year, the Commissioners directed their attention to the prosecution of the work upon the grounds, which had been commenced the preceding year. The grubbing and grading, on the north of the principal entrance, were extended to the north- ern boundary of the land, and a new and convenient path opened from the front line, on Webster street, to the aven- ue near the Tomb. Trees were planted out, grass seed sowed, manure applied, and the grounds, in the most prom- inent and conspicuous locality, rendered neat and attract- ive. The reserved plot, about the Tomb, was enlarged, and in front, an ornamental circular curb of stone was placed, enclosing a mound of slight elevation, for the growth of a large shade tree. An entire new avenue, now marked on the Plan " Glen Avenue," winding round a pre-
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cipitous elevation, from Walnut to Sycamore Avenues, has been laid out and constructed, and the land grubbed and graded for two tiers of lots on the south, and for an open reserve on the north. On this new avenue, a well of last- ing, pure, cold spring water has been opened, and a pump placed in it, of most necessary use to those who labor, or resort to the Cemetery. In this locality, the grounds are rendered peculiarly beautiful, by the improvements which have been made.
"Aspen Avenue" before laid out but not worked, has been opened, and the whole of the grounds between that Avenue and Chestnut Avenue, have been cleared and graded, and marked out into most desirable lots ; and Chestnut Avenue has been somewhat altered to conform to this great im- provement. A new avenue, called "Chapel Avenue," has also been laid out and constructed, connecting all the afore. mentioned central avenues with Maple Avenue, which is the leading exterior passage way from the public street to the common free burial place. In this vicinity, on Maple, Chapel, Aspen, and Sycamore Avenues, ninety-three contin- uous lots have been surveyed by the Commissioners, and with forty-nine lots before referred to, likewise laid out and opened between Aspen and Chestnut Avenues, make ONE HUNDRNED AD FORTY-TWO new lots added, this year, to those before offered for selection and purchase. Over all parts of the grounds, the Commissioners have exercised a care- ful superintendence, and caused all the avenues and paths, of necessary or convenient use, to be kept in repair ; while they have endeavored to guard all former improvements from neglect or injury.
It had been found by experience, that laborers, who are occasionally, although necessarily, employed on the grounds, often came to their work with insufficient and im- perfect tools, to a very material diminution of the results of their labor, and the Commissioners deemed it advisable to provide suitable implements, for their use. Accordingly, they purchased such as were of most constant and neces-
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sary requirement in labor upon the grounds, with a strong and durable tool chest for their safe keeping and preserva- tion, together with a grind-stone, which was in hourly de- mand. These will remain, at all times hereafter, in the control of the Commissioners, while their cost has already been saved, in a single season.
The operation of clearing the ground from stumps and roots, has been greatly facilitated by the use of a Stump Puller, hired for a short period, by which the work was more thoroughly performed, and at least, four fold the cost, which must otherwise have been incurred, has, unquestion- ably, been saved.
The Commissioners have received from the Treasury of the City, during the year, the unexpended balance of the appropriation of the preceding year, being $461 18 togeth- er with an appropriation of $1000, for the year 1855. They have also obtained, by the sale of wood, cut from parts of the land requiring to be leveled and graded for new av- enues and burial lots, the sum of $75 08, making in the whole, an aggregate of cash receipts of $1546 26. They have expended, in labor and improvements upon the grounds, inclusive of the purchase of tools, and the hire of the Stump Puller, the sum of $1527 43-thus leaving in their hands a balance of $18 83, to be carried to their debit, in a new account. A minute detailed statement of all their receipts and disbursements accompanies this report. Some small bills, which had been paid by the City Treas- urer, the principal of which was for surveys, and a Plan made by Mr. Valentine, are not included in the Commis- sioners' account.
By the books of the City Treasurer, it appears that, du- ring the year, he has given deeds of forty-four cemetery lots, and received therefor, the sum of four hundred and sixty-four dollars. As was suggested by the Commissioners, in their last report, they made it their earliest duty to re- vise the former tariff of prices affixed to the lots, so as to bring them in more just correspondence with their cost of
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improvement, and relative eligibility for selection and use. Accordingly, the prices of such as had been prepared at greatest expense, and which, from localities, were most de- sirable, were raised as high as twenty, thirty, thirty-five, and one, even to forty dollars, while by far the greater part were confirmed at the original low appraisement of five, six, eight, ten, and up to fifteen dollars. As an ap- proval of the propriety of this enhancement of the most eligible lots, is the fact, that the one of highest estimate, and several, next in value, were among those first selected. The Commissioners have not contemplated gain to the Treasury, from the sale of these grounds, but only, that, as improvements progress, and the lots are made suscepti- ble of use, with less expense to the purchaser, in the pre- paration, some indemnity may be obtained to the city for the public outlay, in their care, and the labor, which must necessarily ever continue to be bestowed upon them. Three fourths of the lots, now laid out, may still be had, at the former low prices-while the portion set apart for free burial, remains most ample, and greatly improved in appear- ance, and ease of access.
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