1854 Trustee Committee on Statuary: Legal Opinion on Statuary Appropriation (page 09)

extrinsick" - Though a little pompous this
definition seems to us remarkably exact,
and to precisely describe the place which statuary
will supply in the Chapel at Mount Auburn-
Webster's definition is satisfactory "any thing
that adds beauty or elegance, that which renders
any thing pleasing to the eye or agreeable to the
taste in dress, furniture, manners or the fine
arts" - and by way of illustration he says "Rich
dresses are embellishments of the person - Virtue
is an embellishment of the mind, and liberal
arts are an embellishment of society" - And we ^ think
commemorative statues are an embellishment of
a Cemetery -

There are other arguments which might be
drawn from the express language of the Act of
1831. which would tend to confirm the opinion
which we have thus expressed ; but we do not
think it at present necessary to address them,
since the legality of the appropriation is sufficiently
and fully sustained even by the clause in which
the limitations upon the powers of the existing
Corporation were created.

Boston. Sept. 30. 1854.

Charles P. Curtis

Henry M. Parker.