The San Francisco call., 1895-07-16
receipts therefor to the court on behalf of

receipts therefor to the court on behalf of
the society.
The full amount of the trust was $604,-
654 0S. The difference between the last
mentioned sum and the cash paid over to
the society's officers represents the cancel
lation of mortgage in the sum of three
hundred thousand and odd dollars and ac-
crued interest.
The requirement of this handsome sum
by the Society of California Pioneers is
due to the eighteenth clause OF the James
Lick deed of trust, which reads as fol-
lows:
And In further trust, after discharging the
trusts and making the payments herefnbefore
mentioned, in the order hereinbefore set forth
Except as herein otherwise directed), to make
over and transfer the residue of the proceeds
of the property hereby transferred and con-
veyed, and intended to be, in equal proper
tions, to the California Academy of Sciences
and the Society of California Pioneers, to be
ton OF the buildings mentioned in the deeds of
the party of the first part, to said societies,
dated October %, 1878, and in the purchase,
after the erection OF such buildings, OF q su1ta,
BILE library, natural specimens, chemical and
philosop phical apparatus, rare and curious
things useful in the advancement of science,
and generally in the carrying out OF the objects
for which said societies were respectively estab-
nshed.
The largest portion OF the $204, ,684 08 will
be invested and the interest applied to the
benefit of the relief fund. AT present
there is only about $1,000 in that fund; and
with forty -four names on the relief list this
large acquisition will come in most oppor-
tunely. Even now the benefactions under
the relief fund amount to about $1,000
month, and the number is bound to In,
crease rapidly. The average amount paid
to each member is about $25, depending on
condition, age, etc. The $1,000 a month
paid in relief benefits does not include the
expense OF funerals and the purchase OF
burial lots.
Last years death roll, ending June 80,
1895, mum mbered sixty-six seniors. Two
have died so far this month. The majority
of the 700 seniors left in the society are
over 70 years of age. Most of the deaths
last wear were of members between 20 and
80 years of age.
The membership at present numbers
1112, segregated as follows: 1856 seniors,
334 sons and grandsons, and honorary
members. The total number of signatures
on the roll is 3540, the difference between
that number and the up-to-date member
ship denoting the number of deaths that
have taken place since the organization OF
the society.
Willard B. Farrell, who is at present en-
gagged in writing 1.-THE Life of James
Lick" in speaking about the trust, yester-
day recalled the effort that was foolishly
made by some of the society's members to
defeat the grand benefaction. "They no
doubt saw their mistake long ago." he
added, ''and are as gratified as any of US
for what we have received. But they were
laboring under misapprehension in the
first place, having been misled in their zeal
by the attacks made by some of the
papers. However, it is ours now and we
ought to be able to do much good with it
among our members. We are dying off
rapidly, and it will be but a few years at
best until all will be gone. The sons and
grandsons will perpetuate the society after
we have been gathered unto our fathers"