The question of the proposed encroachment on the area of the Public Garden for the purpose of widening the Bund thoroughfare can be viewed from a standpoint entirely different from most of those which have already been put forward, and it concerns chiefly the right of the Council to do that which is at present proposed. To understand the matter in its entirely it is necessary to examine the history of the garden as fully as possible, and while the documents immediately available may not be so full as could be desired there is ground for believing that matters might very well be held up pending a decision as to whether this proposed interference with what is a public trust can be carried through without proceedings to secure judicial permission to do There is evidence to show that the Public Garden is not municipal property at all, that the Council holds it in trust for the community under rather different conditions than the tenure of the other parks belonging to the Settlement.
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