ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, ON THE REMOVAL OF THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT, TO THE OLD STATE HOUSE BY HARRISON GRAY OTIS, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF BOSTON. BOSTON: JOHN H. EASTBURN.... MDCCCXXX. IN COMMON COUNCIL, SEPTEMBER 17, 1830. Ordered, That the Committee of Arrangements be and they hereby are directed to present to the Mayor, the thanks of the City Council, for the impressive and eloquent Address delivered by him to the City Council in Convention, on the morning of this memorable Aniversary, and to request a copy of the same for the press. Sent up for Concurrence, The Undersigned, the Committee of Arrangements for the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of Boston, have the honor to enclose you an attested copy of a vote of the City Council, and respectfully ask your compliance with the request contained therein. BENJAMIN RUSSELL, BENJAMIN T. PICKMAN, THOMAS MINNS, JOSEPH EVELETH, JOHN W. JAMES, WASHINGTON P. GRAGG. aust Live cover ADDRESS. Gentlemen of the Common Council : I have the honor to announce to you that the Mayor and Aldermen have concurred with your request to change the name of this building, and to order that it be henceforth called and known by the name of the City Hall. Gentlemen of the City Council, The intimations which I have received from many individuals of your body have left me no room to doubt of your general expectation that this first occasion of our meeting in this Chamber should not be permitted to pass away without something more than a brief record of the event upon your journals.— The spot on which we are convened is Patriot Ground. It was consecrated by our pious ancestors to the duties of providing for the welfare of their infant settlement, and for a long series of years was occupied in succession by the great and good men whom Providence raised up to establish the institutions and liberties of their country. There are none, who have paid even a superficial attention to the process of their perceptions, who are |