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Excerpt from Report of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, 1858 The Secretary of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association respectft submits the following report of the present state of affairs: In the month of April last, as the public have been already informed by the Regent of the Association, a contract was exe cuted by Mr. John A. Washington, in due legal form, for the purchase of Mount Vernon. In this way the object, so long pursued by the government of the Association, has been obtained, it is believed, in a manner most in consonance with the public sentiment. The contract provides for the purchase of two hundred acres of the land belonging to the Mount Vernon estate, including the mansion-house and its appendages, the gar den, the landing from the river as already established, and, above all, the tomb which contains the mortal remains of the Father of his Country. 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.