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poses iind trusts which the said Trustees hold the said prop- 

 erty to be as follows. 



Ist — The said Trustees shall not have the power to make 

 any sale, conveyance or disposition of the real estate herein 

 devised to them or any portion thereof, except as herein 

 specified. 



2nd — Said Trustees shall forever keep that portion of the 

 said tract first described, which is now occupied by the 

 Botanical garden, Fruti = [4] Fruticetum, Arboretum, Mu- 

 seum, my residence with such other extent of land as from 

 time to time they may find it expedient or necessary to add 

 thereto for the extension of the said botanical garden and 

 grounds, including the residence of the Director thereof as 

 a Botanical garden for the propogation and cultivation of 

 specimens of plants flowers, fruit, and forest trees for the 

 promotion of science and knowledge, which shall be kept 

 open during such hours, and under such regulations as they 

 shall prescribe every day except Sundays, for the use of the 

 public at large. 



3rd — The residue of the real estate not required for the 

 immediate purposes of the said Botanical garden in extend- 

 ing the same, whenever it shall appear or seem to the said 

 Trustees necessary, shall from time to time, as the same 

 can be advantageously done, be leased by said Trustees as 

 follows; such portions thereof as can be advantageously 

 leased upon building leases, shall be leased for a term not 

 exceeding sixty years, -with a provision in such leases for 

 perpetual renewal thereof for succeedmg terms of not more 

 than sixty years, at a rent to be fixed by valuation to be 

 made as therein provided at each term of renewal. Such 

 leases shall also contain a provision that the Leassee as a part 

 of the rent shall pay all taxes general and special, and as- 

 sessments that may be levied or assessed upon said land so 

 leased. It is my design and object not only that the lands 

 so leased shall afford an income or revenue for the support 

 of the said Botanical Garden, but that it may in the future 

 bo so leased as by its improvement its contiguity may be 



