New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-08-17

| eighth of the revenues of the estate, and
| the cities of New Orleans and Baltimore to
| receive only one-half of the ne, yearly
revenue until they are paid
The language of McDonogh in the will
| is emphatic in stating the intention OF the
deviser that no part Of the real estate shall
| be sold. He also said Il hereby declare
that my intention is not that any part OF
| said general estate or revenue from rents,
| arising from said general estate, shall go
into the hands of the corporators OF said
cities. No compromise shall ever take
place between Baltimore and New Orleans"
"And should they" he continues, " CON-
blne together. and knowingly and willfully
violate any of the conditions hereinbefore
| or hereinafter directed for the management
| of the general estate and the application OF
| the revenues arising therefrom, then, in
that event. give and bequeath the rest,
residue, remainder and accumulation of my
| said general estate to the States OF Louis
| lana and Maryland, in equal proportions to
| each of said States, of half and half, for the
| UuIpUSc VI CAuCAL1uS lAC pOoA ia oG>fA
States under such general system of edu-
cation as their respective Legislatures shall
establish by law"
He appointed seventeen executors the
majority Of whom did not qualify. They
| were to administer the estate. and then
turn over all funds, books. papers, etc. to
| the commissioners and agents of the gen
eral estate. who were to be appointed by
the cities of New Orleans and Baltimore.
lie asks the people Of New Orleans to elect,
on the second Monday of January of each
and every year. two citizens as commission
ers out of each of the three then munich
| palities, who, with three others, to be elect
ed by the Councils OF the municipalities,
will constitute the board, who shall serve
| for the year and be ineligible for re-
| election.
| ut is my WISH" says Mr.. McDOnogh, in
this will, "and I direct the commissioners
for the city of New Orleans to estab-
lish as many schools a, may be
necessary and wanted, SO that, if pos
s.ble. every poor child and youth may
receive an education. The schools should
be established in different parts of the city
OF New Orleans. its suburbs, liberties and
outskirts, in such situations as would be
for whom these institutions are alone in
tended
incidentally, in the body Of his will, he
says:
l am convinced that the first and most
imperative and sacred duty which each and
every government on earth is bound to per
form, is that of providing by law for
the education of every Child within the
limits of their respective governments. To
that effect, parents and guardians of youth
should be made, under heavy penalties to
send their children to schools supported al
the sole expense Of the government.
He states and reiterates that it is the
chief aim and object and desire Of his life
that "every poor child and youth Of every
color in these places New Orleans and Bal
timore,. may receive common school edu'
cation
Upon almost the LAS: page of this remark
ably perspicuous document he says:
request my executors to see that my
funeral is plain, and made without parade
|
IL was near forgetting that | have still
one small request to make. one little favor
still! to ask, and it shall. be the last. 1t is
that il nay be permitted annually to the
children OF the free schools situated nearest
to the place of my intermen: to plant and
water i few flowers around my grave.
| This little act will have double tendency.
It will open their young and susceptible
| hearts to gratitude and love to their divine
| TOW f,rh ha raIaQN II the hIlmnip
| instrument of HIS bounty to them poor,
| fraiI worm OF earth like me. and teach
| them at the same time what they are,
| whence they came and whittier they must
| return.
In a memoranda addressed to his ex-
ecutors he gives the following list Of his
| real estate:
| IL squares, 800 lots at the lower end of
! PnyGras street.
| 2000 lots in McDonoghviiie.
800 acres in rear of McDonogbviile.
| 50 acres in upper end OF McDonoghviiie.
1000 acres in rear oS Caze.ar estate.
| 1870 squares, 1893 lots. in suburb Wash.
ington.
! 800 acre. in rear OF suburb Livingston.
Al SQUARES, 900 lots. Third Municipality.
| iigS acres in rear of suburb Washing ton.
A claim Ot 200, 600 arpent. i'll the Florida
| parishes subject to the action OF Congress.
| 20. 600 acres. east side Mississippi river,
| I6 leagues above New Orleans.
1886 acres adjoining.
| 1000 arpents on Bayou des Families.
| lilo arpsnts right bank Mississippi. 70
leagues below New Orleans.
ABB acres above last lot.
| 3l,Sl6 arpents rear Of risat bank. Bayou
| Lstourche.
300 arpents, parish OF Iherviiie.
.iSS acres adjoining last lot.
The island OF Grand Chinere.
An island of Grand Lake Harataria.
iGxS0 arpents below Baton Rouge.
20C5 acres on River du Chene.
| 2fx:0 acres Oa canal OF Bayou LatoU!che.
! ll59 acres townships thirteen and
| fourteen.
| I0xSJ acres on right bank of the Mis,is-
| sipp river. eleven leagues below New
! Orleans.
| $40 acres on the left baui. Of the Amite
| river.
1900 acres parish Of Ope:oUsas.
| Many other parcels Of land. not embraced
| in this LIST. we're found aoted uuon his
ledger.
| From 4 bundle Of mus:y, yellow pages
| some twenty-six in number, some OF them
| tae backs Of old letters upon which the ad
dress and postmark are visible. and covered
with writing in Mr.. McDonogh's own clear,
legibie hand. the clearly written lines OF
which have been faded with age-ts which
we have been permitted access in preparing
| these memoranda, we make the !Ollowir z
| extracts:
The plan which my mind formed tinha
enced. trust. by the Divine spirit), and
has pursued for near forty years, to accu
| nulat re- and oct fopAfher a large estate in