286 History of Hingham. 



Plymouth ss. 



Supreme Judicial Court 

 At Chambers, Boston, April 15th, 1879. 



James S. Beal et al vs. Roxanna Gross et als. 



DECREE. 



The report of the master to whom it was referred, by a decree entered 

 in this cause, to report a scheme, by which a certain fund, being the ac- 

 cumulation of income referred to in the will, and held by the plaintiffs as 

 Trustees, under the will of Martin Wilder, late of Hingham, deceased, can 

 be used for educational purposes, under the will, in a manner most bene- 

 ficial to the inhabitants of that portion of the town of Hingham, designated 

 in the will, as the South Parish, and in a manner not inconsistent with the 

 objects named in said will, having come in and been filed in this cause, 

 November 20th, 1878, and no exception having been taken thereto, 



It is ordered, adjudged, and decreed, that the plaintiffs, Trustees as 

 aforesaid, shall appropriate and expend from out the said fund, together 

 with additions thereto, from accruing income mentioned in the third clause 

 of the former decree entered in this cause, and from accruing income from 

 the same source, within one year from the filing of this decree, a sum not 

 exceeding six thousand dollars, in the erection of a building in the vicinity 

 of the Meeting-house in said Parish, for the use and benefit of the inhabi- 

 tants aforesaid, under such rules and regulations as the Trustees shall from 

 time to time establish under the authority conferred by this decree. 



And the said Trustees may upon the erection and completion of said 

 building, expend from year to year, all that portion of the annual income, 

 after the expiration of one year from the entry of this decree, accruing to 

 them from the trust fund, applicable to educational purposes, and any such 

 sums received for the use of the Lecture-Room, as hereinafter provided, in 

 keeping said building insured and in proper repair, and in furnishing, heat- 

 ing, and taking proper care of the same, and also in providing books and 

 papers for the Heading-Room and Library, and in procuring from time 

 to time lectures to be given on such literary, scientific, or historical sub- 

 jects, as shall be best adapted to the instruction and improvement of such 

 inhabitants. 



The said Trustees may, under the rules and regulations to be established 

 by them, allow the Lecture-Room to be used by other persons for hire or 

 gratuitously, as the Trustees may determine in each case, for educational 

 and other purposes, not inconsistent with the terms aod objects intended 

 to be accomplished by this decree. 



Provided however, if at any time it shall be necessary or expedient to 

 establish such schools as provided for in the will, it shall be the duty of the 

 Trustees to establish the same, and conduct them in the building aforesaid, 

 and defray the expense of the same from the income of the said fund* ap- 

 plicable to educational purposes, before any of said income shall be ap- 

 propriated to papers, books, and lectures, for the use and benefit of said 

 inhabitants, as hereinbefore provided. 



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Wm. C. Endicott, Justice. 



Acting under the authority thus obtained, the trustees caused a 

 building to be erected on the easterly side of Main Street, near the 



