The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-21


and subsequently as master and part owner of a
''The orphans admitted into the college shall
be there fed with plain but wholesome food,
clothed with plain but decent apparel (no dis
tinctive dress ever to be worm. and lodged i'm a
plain but safe manner; due regard shall be paid
TO their health and to this end their persons and
clothes shall be kept clean and they shall have
suitable and rational exercise and recreation.
They shall be instructed i'm the various branches
of n sound education, cOmprchending reading,
writing grammer, arithmetic, geography, navi-
CATION, surveying, practical mathematics, astro-
nomy, natural, chemical, and experimental
philosophy, the French and Spanish languages
q do not forbid, but l do not recon-
mend the Greek and Latin languages),
and such other learning and science
as the capacities of the several scholars may
merit or warrant. would have them taught
facts and things, rather than words or signs; and
especially, desire that by every proper means u
pure attachment to our republican institutions,
and to the sacred rights of conscience, as
guaranteed by our happy constitutions, shall be
formed and tostered in the minds of the scholars.
SHOULD it unfortunately happen that any
OF the orphans admitted into the college shall,
from malcOnduct, have become unfit companions
for the rest, and mild means of reformation
prove abortiye, they should no longer remain
therein. Those scholars who shall merit il shall
remain in the college until they shall respec-
lively arrive ut between fourteen and eighteen
years of age; they shall then be bound ont by
the mayor, aldermen and citizens of Philadel-
patiOns, those of agriculture, navigation, arts,
mechanical trades, and manufactures, according
to the capacities and requirements of the
scholars respectively, consulting, as far as pru-
dence shall justify it, the inclinations of the
several scholars as to the occupation, art or
trade to be learned.
'In relation to the organization of the college
and its appendages, / leave, necessarily, many
details to the mayor aldermen, and citizens of
Philadelphia and their successors; and | do so
with the more confidence, as, from the nature of
my requests, and the benefit to result from them,
! trust that my fellOW-C citizens of Philadelphia
will observe and evince especial care and
anxiety in selecting members for their City
Councils and other agents.
There are, however, some restrictions which
/ consider it my duty to prescribe and to be,
amongst Others conditions on which my
bequest for said college is made, and to be
enjoyed, namely-Frst, l enjoin and require
that if, at the close of any year, the income of
the fund devoted to the purposes of the said
college shall be more than sufficient for the
maintenance of the institution during that year,
then the balance of the said income, after de-
fraymg such maintenance, shall be forthwith in
vested in good securities, thereafter to be and
remain a part of the capital; but, in no event,
shall any part of the said capital be sold, dis
posed of, or pledged to meet the current eX-
penses of the said institution, to which devote
the interest income, and dividends thereof cN-
clusivey:-SecOndly, | cnjom and require that
no cCclcsiastiC, missionary or minister of any
sect whatsoever shall ever hold or exercise any
station or duty whatever in the said College;
nor shall any such person ever be adj
mitted for any purpose, or as visitor
within the premises appropriated to the pur-
poses of the said college. In making
this restriction, l do not mean to cast
any reflection upon any sect or person whatsO-
eVer but, as there is such multitude of sects,
and such diversity of opinion amongst them, |
desire to keep the tender minds of the orphans
who are to derive advantage from this bequest
free from the excitement which clashing doc
trines and sectarian controversy are so apt to
produce; my desire is that all the instructors and
teachers in the college shall take pains to instil
into the minds of the scholars the purcst princi-
Piles of morality, so that, on their entrance into
active life, they may from inclination and habit,
cvince benevOlenCc towards their fellow crea-
lures, and love of truth sObriety, and industry,
adopting ut the same time such religious tenets
as their matured reason may enable them to pre-
fer. If the income arising from that part of
the said sum of two millions of dollars, remain
ing after the construction and furnishing OF
the college and outbuildings, shall, owing
to the increase of the number of orphans apply
ing for admission or other cause, be inadequate
to the construction of new buildings, or the
maintenance and education OF as many orphans
as may apply for admission, then such further
sum as may be necessary for the construction of
new buildings and the maintenance and educa-
tion OF such further number of orphans as can
be maintained and instructed within such build
ings as the said square Of ground shall be ade-
quate to- shall be taken from the final residuary
fund hereinafter cNprcssly referred to for the
purpose, cOmprehending the income of my real
estate in the city and county of Philadelphia,
and the dividends of my stock in the Schuylkill
Navigation COmpany-my design and desire
being that the benefits of said Institution shall
be extended to rs great number of orphans us
the limits of the said square and buildings therein
can accommodate"
By a codicil to the original reading as follows,
the site for the college buildings was changed
to their present lOcatiOn:-
Whereas, l. Stephen Girard, the testator
named i'm the foregoing will and testament
dated February l6, $780, have, since the eXecu-
! tiOn thereof purchased several parcels and
| pieces of land and real estate, and have bHit
sundry messuages all which, as well as any real
estate that may hereafterpurchase, it is my in
| tentiOn to pass by said will: and whereas, in
! particular, l have recently purchased from Mr.
| William Parker, the Mansion House, outbuild-
! ings, and forty-fve acres and some perches of
! land, called Peel Hall, on the Ridge road, in
! Penn township: now | declare it to be my in
! tention, and direct, that the orphan establish
| ment provided for in my said WILL instead of
! being built, rs therein directed, upon my square
of ground between High and Chestnut and
! Eleventh and Twelfth streets, in the city of
! Philadelphia, shall be built upon the estate
so purchased from Mr.. w. Parker; and
/ hereby devote the said estate to
that purpose exclusively, in the same
| manner as / had devoted the said square,
hereby directing that all the improve
ments and arrangements for the said orphan
establishment, prescribed by my said will, as to
| said square, shall be made and executed upon
the said estate just if | had in my will de-
voted the said estate to said purpose-conse-
| Quently, the said square of ground is to cOnsti-
and remainder of my real and personal estate,
and given and devised for the same uses and
purposes as are declared in section twenty of
my WILL it being my intention that the said