Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-17
FORESTS WILL.
Most Liberal Provision Made for Inflrm
and SuperannHated Actors and Ac-
tresses-The Edwin Forrest
Home.
His Name PerpetHated in the Profession
The Wil Provides for the Manage
ment OF the Institution.

PHILADELPHIA, December l6.-The
will Of Edwin Forrest, dated April s,
1855, contains provisions for his sisters.
which has become inOperste by their
death. 1t appoints as trustees, James
Oaks, Of Boston, James Sampson, Of
New York, and Daniel Dougherty, of
Philadelphia. 1t directs the sale of
all his property, except Spring
Brock,n which he fixed a.
the location of the Edwin Forrest Home,
which institute viii be for the support
of actors and actresses decayed by age,
or disabled by infirmities, v ho If natives
of the United States and shall have
served at least five yesrs at the theatri-
cal profession, and foreign birth shall
have served at that profession ten years,
whereof three years next previous 10
application for admission to the Home,
shall have been spent in the United
States, and who shall in all things com
ply with the laws and regulations Of the
Home; otherwise to be discharged by
the managers, whose decision shall be
final The number of inmates shall
never exceed the annual net rent and
evenuesOf the Institute, and after the
number Of inmates shall exceed twelve,
the Others to be admitted shall be such
only as shall receive the approval of q
majority of the inmates, as well as of
the managers. Said corporation shall
be managed by a board of managers,
chosen by the trustees, and shall include
themselves as long as there are any liv-
ing, and also the Mayor of PHILADELPHIA
for the time being; and as vacancies
occur, the managers shall fill them so
that only one vacancy shall ever exist
at one time. The managers shall elect
one of their number President, and ap-
point a Secretary, Steward and Matron, |
and, If needed, a clerk, except a treas
1rer. The officers shall be chosen from /
among the managers, but the Treasurer
and Secretary shall not be managers. |
Provision is made TO remedy the failure |
TO ill vacancies, caused by failure or
breach Of trust, by application to /
the Orphans Court. The pur- /
poses are said to be intended purely a.
and self-sustaining, as well /
rs eleemOsinary, and never TO encourage
dleness or trifers, nor any who are ca
Dable Of eXertiOn. 1t provides that his
library shall be located at the Home,
which shall also contain a picture gal
cry for preserving his collections, and a
neat theater for private exhibition and
listrionic culture, to which pupils will
)e admitted. Lecturers on science and
literature will also be provided for, as
gell as celebrations on the Fourth Of
Iulyf and Shakespeare's birthday. 1t
iirects that the charter for the institute
,e obtained from the State Legislature.
The codicils Of the will give an an
luity OF two thousand and five hundred
IOllsrs TO Jams sOaks, bequests five
thousand dollars each to James LoYeson
nd Daniel Dougherty. Ten thousand
Ollars 70 Miss Elizabeth Welsh, daugh-
er Of John R. Welsh. Twenty thou
and dollars to S. Smith Circis, and
weuty thousand dollars to the Actors
)rder Of Friendship, Philadelphia.
Now that the sisters are dead, al the
rOceeds Of the sale of property are to
o to the "Home," with the exception
f special bequests.