The servants, $5000.
I give and bequeath to the servants who may be living with me at the time of my decease the sum of five thousand dollars, to be distributed among them in the manner and according to proportions fixed upon by my beloved wife.
To his Executors, $200,000 for public uses.
And I do also hereby give and bequeath to my executors hereinafter named—or such of them as shall accept the trust, the survivors or survivor of them, to be by them applied, disposed of, and distributed, for scientific, literary, religious, or charitable purposes—the following manufacturing stocks at their par value, estimated at two hundred thousand dollars, and situated as follows, to wit:—
1st. At Manchester, State of New Hampshire.
Fifty shares in the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company.
Forty shares in the Stark Mills.
Ten shares in the Manchester Print Works.
2d. At Lowell, State of Massachusetts.
Twenty shares in the Merrimac Manufacturing Company.
Twenty shares in the Appleton Manufacturing Company.
Twenty shares in the Hamilton Manufacturing Company.
Twenty shares in the Suffolk Manufacturing Company.
Twenty shares in the Massachusetts Cotton Mills.
My wishes in regard to the particular institutions or objects to which the aforesaid manufacturing stocks are to be applied, and also the time and mode of the application thereof, I intend to make known to my executors; and I feel sure that they will strictly comply with the same; and, in default of any such directions from me, I have confidence in their making such a disposition and distribution of said property as they will think would be most likely to meet my approbation.
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