The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-19

lie SCRANTON TRIBUN
Pennsylvania or Virginia, or in the
bonds Nof the United States, the interest
whereof shall be expended and laid out
in paying the expenses from time TO
time of the several institutions pro-
vided for in this my Will.
l hereby order and direct my eXecu
utors and their successors to rent or
lease the surface of my farm and min
eral lands. and to sell the timber and
bark thereon from time to time for the
best price that can be obtained for said
timber and bark. And also to lease
the mineral on said lands for the period
of twenty years, and thereafter to con"
vey and sell said lands as they are
hereinbefore ordered and directed to
sell other real estate.
| direct and order my executors to
pay over all money arising from the
sale of land situate in Virginia, West
Virginia, PENNSYLVANIA and other
states, and the timber and bark there
on, and all minerals In and under said
land to the directors and trustees afore-
said. and to the city of Winchester,
Virginia, aforesaid in the same proper
tions as named herein, namely. thirty
three and one-third per cent, of the net
income. Said income to be invested by
said several corporations as hereinbe-
fore directed and to be laid out and ex-
pended by them and each of said cor
porations and the city of Winchester as
hereinbefore directed.
| order and direct my executors or
their successors to collect and apply all
OF my life insurance or so much thereof
as may be required toward the payment
of any debts that may be of record
against my real estate at the time of
my death.
Education OF Young People
| order and direct my executors to
continue paying the expenses of each
boy and girl that | may have at school
or college ut the time of my death, until
each of said persons shall graduate
and when such scholars shall have fin
ished and graduated at his or her edu-
cation to pay to each boy or girl the
sum of $500 out of the income of my
estate.
| order and direct that If at the end
of any one year the income of the
money devoted to the support of the
library at Winchester. Virginia st. Pat
rck's Orphan asylum or the House of
the Good Shepherd shall be more than
sufficient to pay the annual expenses,
then and in that event | direct that
the balance of said income shall be
forthwith invested in interest bearing
bonds of the United States or the state
of Virginia and be added to the capital.
! order and direct that under no
circumstances shall any portion of the
capital of either or any of the inSti-
tutions to which have in this my last
will made pequests. sell. dispose, or
] MI h, M A
I the current expenses of said institu-
tions.
| do hereby declare that all of the
several bequests made in this my last
! will. are made upon the express con-
| dition that none of the moneys, princi-
| pal, interest. rents or royalties aris-
/ ing from such beQuests, shall be applied
/ to any other purpose Whatsoever than
| those especially mentioned and herein
| appointed.
All trust money mentioned in this will
| shall be invested by my executors or the
! directors or trustees of the corporations
named. and the city of Winchester,
| Virginia, in United States registered
bonds unless otherwise named and d-
reCted.
/ | hereby order and direct my eXecu-
tors, unless where otherwise specially
ordered. to pay the said persons, cor
porations and city of Winchester, Nir-
/ ginia, the said several sums of money
/ bequeathed, devised and given by me,
in manner following, namely:
How 1t viii Bc Divided.
The total income obtained from my
/ estate, real, personal or mixed, shall be
accumulated for the period of two years
from the date of my death and of the
paying of all just debts, taxes, insur-
ance and other charges for the pre-
ceding year; the balance remaining
shall be divided by my executors pro
rata among the several persons. corpor-
atiOns and the city of Winchester, Va,
named in my will, in proportion to the
amount bequeathed and devised to each,
and so continue to pay, from year to
year, on the first days of January in
each year, until each and every bequest
is paid in full by my executors and
! their successors.
/ | hereby order and direct that no act
or deed of my executors appointed
under this will, or their successors, shall
be valid or binding upon my estate
unless a majority thereof shall consent
to the same in writing when the amount
involved shall exceed the sum of 800.
Should any one or more of my eHecu-
tors depart this life without first nam
ing his successor in writing and have
/ the same acknowledged before some of
ficer having authority to take acknowl-
edgements, then and in that event | di-
rect the president judge of this judicial
district to appoint such successor or
SUCCESSORS as in his sound judgment he
/ may deem proper.
All the rest and residue of my es-
tate | give, devise and bequeath to the
[ city of Winchester, Va, to be accu-
mulated by said city for the period of
twenty years, the income arising from
said residue estate to be expended and
laid out in said city by the erection
of school houses for the education of
the poor.
| hereby appoint Hon. Henry w.
| Palmer Hon. Lemuel Amerman, B. T.
Leonard ana John r. Richards eXecu-
tors of this my last will and testament
| giving fun power and authority to each
of my executors to name his successor
said successor to have the same power
and authority as the original executors
named In my said WILL.
In witness whereof l. the said John
! Uandley, have hereunto set my hand
and seal this twenty-ninth day of De-
cember, a. d., 1870.
John Handley, O.. s.
Signed, sealed, published and declared
by the said John Handley as and fol
his last will and testament In the pres
ence of us who have, at his request
hereunto subscribed our names as wit
nesses thereunto in the presence of the
said testator and of each other.
G. w. Gunster,
=. J. O,Malley.
COdcil TO the VIII.
on July 81 1898, codicil was added
to the will rcvoking the appointment
of b. II. Leonard as one of his eXecu
tors. Mr.. Leonard had been interested
with Mr.. Handley In the operations OF
the winchester Improvement company
and about the date of the codicil Mr.
Leonard and =. II. Mulherin began al
action I'm the United States circuit