“In case I should leave no grand-nephews, I bequeath my property, after the death of Madame Duhem and Mdlle. Verdun, to the three cities of Guingamp, Morlaix, and Lannion, on condition that the revenues of the same shall be employed to give marriage portions annually, and alternately, in each such city, to five young girls of small means.
“I desire that they shall begin by Guingamp and follow with the others in regular order.
“I further request the republican members of the conseil-général of the Finisterre, to the number of five—to the absolute exclusion of Legitimists, Orleanists, Imperialists, and above all of Clericals and Communards—to find five young girls whose parents, and who also themselves, hold the same opinions as myself. If at the conseil-général there should not be found the required number of members, those there are must call upon the municipal counsellors of the above-named towns, and if they should refuse to accept, on all the municipal counsellors.
“The Breton people is dominated, enchained by old prejudices; it must be liberated from its bondage.
“I believe in an unknown God whom I invoke daily, but not in a God of human creation.
“(Signed) Adolphe-Théodore-Ange, du Laurens de la Barre.
“Guingamp, 5th October, 1872.”
A Provision for Twins
Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Mills, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, are the first claimants under a bequest made in the will of Hon. James J. H. Gregory, which provides that the income of $1000 shall be divided each year among the parents of twins born in Marblehead. The Mills twins were born July 10, 1910, and are boys.
The will, which was probated about a month after Mr. Gregory’s death in February, 1910, reads as follows: