Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-13
TILDEN,S WILL.
The Testator's Requests to Found Free
Libraries and Reading Rooms.

ana Rea0lnS Rooms.
by Telegraph
New YORK, August 12th.-Governor Til
den's will is published, but contains little
legacies, it is stipulated in all cases in
which special trusts shall be for the benefit
of any female, said income shall be kept
free from the control or interference of any
husband which said female now has or
may hereafter have, such income being in
tended to be sacredly devoted to the sepa-
rate personal use of said female and is not
TO be incumbered or anticipated by her.
The will proceeds: q authorize nv ex-
ecutors and trustees to cause the establish
ment of library and free reading-room in
my native town of New Lebanon. Ny
executors and trustees are authorized to ex-
pend for the creation and equipment and
to invest as a permanent fund TO maintain
said library and reading room the sum of
$50 600, and any further sum not to exceed
$50 goo which may in writing instruct my
said executors and trustees TO apply to these
objects. ! here authorize my said execu-
tors and trustees to appropriate out OF my
estate, i'll such manner as they may deem
expedieut, the sum of $4,000 toward the
establishment of library and free read
ing-room in the city of Yonkers, and
such further sum not exceeding $780,
600 as | may hereafter instruct my
said executors and trustees to apply
to that object. request my said executors
and trustees to obtain as speedily as posi-
BILE from the Legislature an Act of incorpo-
ration of an institution to be known as
The Tilden Trust, with a capacity to es-
tablish and maintain a free reading-room
in the city of New York and promote such
scientific and educational purposes as my
said executors and trustees may more par
ticularly designate. Such corporation shall
have not less than five trustees with power
TO fill vacancies in their number: and in
case said institution shall be incorporated
/ in form and mannes. satisfactory to my
said executors and trustees during the life
time of the survivor OF the two lives in
being, upon which trust of my general es-
/ tate herein created is limited, to wit, heirs
of Ruby S. Tilden and Susie Whittlesy, |
| hereby authorize my said executors and
trustees to organize said corporation, desig-
nate the first trustees thereof. and to con-
vey to or apply to the use of the same the
rest and residue and remain der of all my
real and personal estate not specifically dis
posed of by this instrument, or so much
thereof as they may deem expedient.
a | authorize my said executors and trus-
tees to apply the rest. residue and remain
der of my property, real and personal, after
making good the said special trusts herein
directed, or such portions thereof as they
may nos deem il expedient 10 apply to its
use, to such charitable, educational and
scientific purposes as the judgment of my
said executors and trustees will render the
said rest residue and remainder of my
property most widely and substantially
beneficial to the interest of mankind.
My said executors and trustees are
hereby invested with the following powers
First, to manage the funds herein directed
| TO be invested in trusts for specific persons
until such investments shall have been
made with like authorities as in cases of
other portions of my estate. Second, to sell
and dispose from time to time, in their
discretion. of such parts and parcels of real
estate and other property hereby devised,
given and bequeathed to them as they shall
deem advisable
Ten thousand dollars is bequeathed to
keep in order the cemetery at New Leban-
on, and provision is made TO erect three
monuments to his memory, to collect and
publish his speeches and public documents.