The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-31

riably paid them from their own personal means
NIGH nigniy approve Of this course which fear is not
very usual; and direct that no part of the Rdgway
branch OF the Philadelphia Library shall ever be
used or expended In providing REFRESHMENTS lunches
BO-caned) feasts, or entertainments either for
managers visitors, shareholders or for any other
persons Whatsoever. -
Fifth do not wish that any work should be excluded
from the library on account OF its difference from
the ordinary or conventional opinion on the subjects
OF science, government, theology, morals or medi-
cine; provided 1t contains neither ribadry nor in
decency.
sixth; give and bequeath all my pictures, my pri
vate library, my manuscripts copyrights and papers,
and aso those OF my father, DR.. Benjamin Rush, TO
the library company.
Seventh. viii and direct that the library building
shall have basement story Of height not less than
eight feet six inches. The entrance to the front OF
the story Immediately above the basement shall be
by broad flight OF stone steps, other entrances may
be made in such places and manner as convenience
or necessity may require.
Eighth II the Library Company should omit OF de-
cline to accept my resduary estate the terms and
conditions in my will and codclI or fail to comply
with any Of the preliminary stipulahons and direc
tiOns therein mentioned, then give and devise the
whole residue OF my estate real and PERSONAL what
sOever, and wherever the may be, after paying
and securing all the annuities, bequests legacies,
and devses other than those 70 the said Library Com
pany, IN this or any future codci contained, unto
The remainder of the codicil is devoted to private
bequests and is dated May l6 1866.
SECOND CoDICIL.
do not desire that the Library Company shall have
income greater than is required to provide for the
legitimate increase Of the Library and their current
expenses | hereby authorize and direct my eXecu-
tor to eXpend the whole remainder of my estate in
the purchase OF lot and the erection of the Library
Building construction of books, cases. etc, leaving
the said company only income sufficient to defray
the ordinary and strictly appropriate expenses OF
such an institution
have given the copyrights of all my works to the
library company, and will and desire that they
snail for the next haf-Century publish every ten
years an edition of eight hundred copies of any and
all OF them so that they shall always have hand
Is snfiiGle9t number to supply any demand that may
ne maze ior any or either of them at price not eX
ceeding the cost of publication. If the library COM
pany shall in any respect violate omit to comply
viii, will and direct that the
PENNSYLVANIA Company for Insurance on Lives and
Granting Annuities shall and may apply to the pro-
per courts to compel said Library Company to COM
ply with the said provisions, or to remove them
from the said trust and transfer the whole of the
real ana personal estate to the said Pennsylvania
Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting An
nuities or if they shall neglect or refuse to accept
of I nj Soe o'ner rust company OIL te CITY
desire to express still more emphatically than I
nave yet done my wish and direction that the library
company snail never make any efforts to rival the
other libraries OF America or Europe in the mere
number of volumes they contain.
The codicl concludes by calling upon the contrbu-
tors to the library, to elect to the management, if
they can he found, at least one or two persons OF
general kHolcicdge; men OF more than College and
High School education, with broad observation re.
Election and taste, and liberal thoughts not secta-
ran to any of the professions nor to the gains OF
trade and speculation; not those who have been
| called ''men Of good choice" and who may have
wider views in government and selection than are
commonly taken by the conventional and popular
| character of II ost public benefciaries.
This was signed April II, 1867.
| THIRD CODICIL.
| The last cOdiCil was written April 12 1869 and /!
| very short and relates to private matters.
The personal bequests in the will are as follows:-
To Mary Lee, domestic, 5000.
To Anne Knee, faithful servant, 5000 yearly.
To Mrs. Catharine SOuder, Wife OF Jacob Souder
| 5000 yearly.
| To Thomas Craven, business agent, $500 yearly.
To Mrs. Caroline Little. and Mrs. S. II. Spruill ant
| to the survivor of them, $500 yearly.
To Miss Mary Ritche, $1,000 yearly.
To several nephews and nieCes, $3.50 each, yearly
| To niece, Mrs. Georgiana Clark, $500 yearly
To Major r. Manners and Mrs. Mary Manners &
| niece, $500 each, yearly.
TO Mrs. Alexander Biddle, niece, $500 yearly.