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On arriving, they fonnd that the City Authorities ' had
provided for them tickets of admission for the ceremonies of
the following,day, and had assigned to the .delegation a
proper place in the procession which was to do honor to the
memory of the distinguished dead.

On Tuesday, February 1st, at 9 o'clock, your Committee
assembled, by invitation, in the Council Chamber of the
Mayor, together with the officers of the English a»d Ameri-
can Navy, the Foreign Representatives, the Authorities of the
city and Governor of the State of Maine.

In due time the procession was formed and proceeded
through files of militia and guards of United States troops,
to the vast Hall, where lay in solemn state the remains of our
honored friend.

The Hall was draped with all the care and propriety that
the most respectful sympathy could suggest, and its mourn-
ing decorations were such as would do honor to the most re-
fined taste. Daylight being entirely excluded, the illumina-
tion proceeded from jets of gas artistically arranged to re-
present the rays of the sun, in the midst of which appeared
the monogram of the deceased, and on either side were em-
blazoned in silver the arms of England and America, while
around the Hall, in living colors, were mottoes to illustrate
the many virtues which he possessed.

After solemn music for the dead, impressive prayers were
pronounced by the Bishop of the State, when the funeral pro-
cession took up their march for the train which was to con-
vey them to the place of his birth.

Your Committee were duly provided with accommodations
upon the funeral train, and on arriving at the town of Pea-
body, the remains were transferred to the Institute which his
bounty had created, there to lie in state until the day of
their final interment.

In thus attending the obsequies which took place from the
City of Portland, and in view of the national character of
those proceedings, your Committee, upon consultation, de-
termined that the object of their appointment had been ac-
complished, and they now return to their duties deeply im-
pressed with the universal appreciation which they have wit-
nessed of the virtues of the deceased, and assured that the
sentiment of the State will approve of the action of the Gene-
ral Assembly in honor of this great occasion.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

JOHN LEE. CARROLL

GEO W. WILSON,

E. G. KILBOURN,
O. HAMMOND,
JOHN N. CARROLL,

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