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Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the Governour and Council, Members of the Legislature, and Other Patrons of the Massachusetts General Hospital: At King's Chapel, Boston, June 3, 1819
You have assisted at the ceremony of laying the corner stone of the Hospital for the sick. We wish we could speak' to you of benefits already realized from this branch of the institution, but we have to lament, that the funds of the Corporation were exhausted, before the walls were completed. Not that we despair of soon hearing its advantages extolled. We have a sure pledge in this, that the legislature and people have given the fullest assur ance of their conviction, that'both Hospitals are of the highest importance to the welfare of the State for never, since the settlement of the country, has the legislature opened the treasury with so liberal a band to any public institution - never have you, my fellow Citizens, sprung with more alacrity to a good work-never have you poured out your treasure in so full a stream
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