Excerpt from Mount Hope Cemetery in Dorchester and West Roxbury: With the Exercises at the Consecration "Every one of our cemeteries," he remarked, "is already full, to an extent which, in a greater or less degree, is prejudicial to the public health." Acting upon this suggestion, a joint special committee, appointed by the city government, made a critical inspection of every suitable site for the contemplated purpose, within reasonable distance from the city. The grounds now constituting Mount Hope Cemetery excited their most favorable consideration, and would have commanded their ultimate preference. Some difference of views, however, in regard to certain details connected with the subject, led to the conclusion that the desired object might be more successfully accomplished if left to individual enterprise, and its subsequent concerns confided to the control of an association of shareholders, personally interested in the promotion and continued duration of the undertaking, and duly organized under the perpetually binding provisions of our State laws. In strict conformity with the requirements of the Revised Statutes, this company was regularly incorporated in the year 1851 - on the 10th of November in which year it elected its first board of officers, as follows: Hon. John H. Wilkins, President; Francis O. Watts, Esq., Treasurer; Owen G. Peabody, Esq., Clerk; and Messrs. B. T. Loring, J. K. Porter, S. H. Jenks, E. H. Holbrook, and Wm. Brown, Directors. A code of appropriate by-laws for the guidance of the members, a system of suitable regulations for the management of the grounds, and all the requisite forms for the legal conveyance and protection of family lots, &c., have been framed and adopted. In fine, every measure has been carefully and advisedly taken, for establishing the Cemetery on the most secure, permanent and satisfactory basis, and for its unchangeable occupancy as a sacred home for the dead "until time shall be no more!" 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.