OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1867. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE. BOSTON: WRIGHT & POTTER, STATE PRINTERS, No. 4 SPRING LANE. 1867. Obituary. Hon. JOSEPH A. POND, President of the Senate, was seized with an apoplectic fit while entering his carriage at the State House, on the 24th of October, 1867. He was taken to his home and survived until the 29th, when he died. Funeral services were performed at the Shawmut Avenue Baptist Church on the 31st. At a meeting of members of the House of Representatives, held in the Library on the day of the funeral, the Hon. James M. Stone, Speaker, in the Chair, and Mr. W. S. Robinson, the Clerk, acting as Secretary, the following Resolutions, offered by Harvey Jewell, Esq., of Boston, were unanimously adopted : Resolved, That the members of the House of Representatives have heard with deep grief the tidings of the death of Hon. JOSEPH A. POND, President of the Senate, who, by his long term of service in the legislative department of the government, by his uniform courtesy in his intercourse with his fellow-members, and by his great skill as a presiding officer, had endeared himself to all associated with him. Resolved, That while we recognize these qualities, displayed in the discharge of his public duties, we recall with greater pleasure, as worthy of higher regard, his character as a Christian citizen, constantly devoted to all good and noble philanthropic and Christian labor, displaying in his private and public life those personal traits which endeared him to us as a neighbor and friend, and which make his example worthy of imitation by all. Resolved, That we will attend the funeral services of our departed friend and associate; and that a copy of these resolutions, attested by the Speaker and Clerk of the House of Representatives, be transmitted to his family with assurances of our sympathy with them in their deep affliction. |