The Iola register., 1886-08-20
TlLoEM.s WILL.


Terms Of the Wlll-Pf0va41ng for Public
Libraries and Relatives.
New YORK, Aug. IA Governor Ttlden's
will was made public yesterday, but con.
tains little not already known. After max.
Ing the family legacies It II stipulated that
In all cases In which special trusts shall be
for the benefit of any female the income
shall be kept FREQ from the control or inter.
ference Of any husband which the female
now has OF may hereafter have. such income
being intended to be sacredly devoted to the
separate personal use OF the heiress and 10
not to be pledged or incumbered or antic-
pated by her. The will proceeds:
authorize nv executors and trustees to
cause the establishment OF library and free
reading room in my native town OF New
Lebanon. My executors and trustees are
authorized to expend for the erection and
equipment aud to invest as . permanent
room the sum Of $4,000 and any further
sum not exceeding e.5.O00, which may in
writing instruct my said executors and trus-
tees to apply to these objects.
hereby authorize my said executors and
trustees to appropriate out OF my estate or
such manner as they may deem most ex-
Hediens the sun nm Of sso@o to. toward the estan.
In the city Of Yonkers, and such. further sum
not exceeding s5OOM, ~ may hereafter in
struct my said executors and trustees to ap-
1 request my said executors and trustees to
obtain as speedily as possible from the Leg.
islature an act OF Incorporation of an insti-
capacity to establish and maintain a free IL
br,iry and reading room in the city OF New
York, and to promote such scientific and edu.
cational objects ~ my said executors and
trustees may more particularly designate.
Such corporation shall not have less than
five trustees, with power to fill vacancies in
their number. and in case said institution
satisfactory to my said executors AND trUs-
tees during the lifetime of the survivor of
the two lives In being, upon which the trust
Of my general estate herein created Is limited,
The lives of Ruby z. Tilden and Susie Whit
tleaey. thereby authorize my said executors
aud trustees to organize the said corporation,
designate the FIRST trustee thereof and con-
vey to or apply to the use OF the same tho
rest. residue and remainder Of all my real
and personal estate not specifically disposed
of by this instrument, or SO much thereof as
they may deem expedient.
j authorize my said executors and trustees
to apply the rest. residue and remainder of
my property. real and personal, after max
rected to be constituted, or such portions
thereof as they may not deem II expedent to
apply TO it's use to such charitable. educa-
tiOnal and scientific purposes as in the judg-
ment of my said executors and trustees will
render the said rest, residue ard remainder
of my property most widely and substan-
tally beneficial to tho interests OF mankind.
My said executors and trustees are hereby
invested with the following powers: First.
to manage the funds herein directed to be in
vested in the trusts for specific persons un.
til such investments shall have been made
with like authority as in cases of other pOr-
tions Of my estate: second, to sell and DIS.
pose from time to time in their discretion Of
such parts and parcels Of the real estate and
other property hereby devised. given and be-
oneathed to them as they shall deem advis-
able.
Three thousand dollars Is bequeathed to
keep in order the cemetery at New LabanOn.
Provision is made to erect there mOnu-
ment to his memory and to collect and pub
lish his speeches and public documents
Any legatee attempting to contest the will
Is excluded from Its benefits.