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that said property by its contiguity may be pleasant and attractive to the 
visitors and students of the Botanical Gardens. Said trustees are also 
authorized in their discretion, before making such sales, to lay out, plat, 
grade and improve such portions of said tracts as they may deem 
desirable, as residence parks or districts, with such restrictions as to 
building lines, cost and character of improvements to be erected by pur- 
chasers, and the use to which said property shall be put, as said trustees 
may deem desirable and appropriate, in order to realize as far as prac- 
ticable the said intention of said testator as to the surroundings of said 
Botanical Gardens. Said trustees are also authorized to lay out such 
streets and alleys as may be necessary to said premises, and if deemed 
desirable or expedient, to dedicate the same, or parts thereof, as public 
highways. Plaintiffs and their successors in trust are also authorized 
and empowered to apply the moneys now on hand, and such of the future 
revenues of said trust as may be available therefor, or such parts of 
such moneys or revenues as may be deemed by them expedient, in paying 
the special taxes and other improvements on said premises, and the 
proceeds of sale of such premises, when sold, may be applied by them to 
the payment of special taxes which may be imposed on said tracts, or 
any of them, of the improvement thereof, or to the special taxes on or 
to the improvement of other of said tracts not so sold. Such of the pro- 
ceeds of sale as may not be required for such purposes shall be invested 
in approved securities or in the betterment, reconstruction or restoration 
of the income-producing property of the trust, or in the improvement 
of any of the unimproved property of the trust, and only the income of 
such proceeds of sale so invested shall be used for the support of the 
trust.”’ 
In view of the important interests involved, the Attorney- 
General deemed it proper to appeal from this decree to the 
Supreme Court, in which the cause is now pending; and 
until that court shall render a final decision, the trustees 
have not undertaken to exercise any of the powers so con- 
ferred upon them. 
The accumulation of a reserve fund sufficient to meet the 
more probable temporary emergencies, and the possibility of 
exchanging more or less of the unimproved real estate of the 
Board for productive property, have made possible the con- 
templation of an increased expenditure for the purposes of 
the Garden, not only for annual maintenance, but for the 
permanent enlargement of the grounds and the amplifica- 
tion of the scope of the institution, to bring it into full 
conformity with the intentions of its founder. In compli- 
