Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . WASHINGTON S BIER. 330 MOUNT VERNON brick, and upon a larger scale, iriaj be built at the foot ofwhat is called the Vineyard Enclosure, on the ground which ismarked out, in which my remains, and those of my deceasedrelatives (now in the old vault), and such others of my familyas may choose to be entombed there, may be de]) THE OLD VAULT IN I6bb. For thirty years the remains of Washington lay undisturbedin the old vault, when the tomb was entered and an attemjjtwas made to carry away the bones of the illustrious
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . WASHINGTON S BIER. 330 MOUNT VERNON brick, and upon a larger scale, iriaj be built at the foot ofwhat is called the Vineyard Enclosure, on the ground which ismarked out, in which my remains, and those of my deceasedrelatives (now in the old vault), and such others of my familyas may choose to be entombed there, may be de]) THE OLD VAULT IN I6bb. For thirty years the remains of Washington lay undisturbedin the old vault, when the tomb was entered and an attemjjtwas made to carry away the bones of the illustrious were taken by mistake, and the robber being detected,thev were recovered. A new vault was soon afterward erected AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 331 upon the spot designated by Washington, and the old one isnow a gaping ruin. Congress was in session at Philadelpliia, when informationof the death of Washington reached them on the day of hisfuneral. On the following day the announcement of it wasformally made on the floor of the House of Representatives,by the Honorable John Marshall, of Virginia (afterward chief-justice of the United States), and after some appropriateaction, the House adjourned. On Monday, the 23d of December, the Congress adoptedjoint resolutions—^^/vsY, that a marble monument should beerected at the capitol; second, that there should be a funeralprocession from Congress Hal
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