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GASSIOT DECLARATION OF TRUST 



THIS INDENTURE made the twenty-ninth day of June one thousand eight 

 hundred and seventy-one BETWEEN JOHN PETER GASSIOT of Clapham 

 Common in the county of Surrey Esquire F.R.S. of the one part and THE 

 PRESIDENT COUNCIL AND FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 

 (hereinafter called the said Royal Society) of the other part. 



WHEREAS the said John Peter Gassiot is possessed of Italian Irrigation 

 Bonds of the nominal value of Ten thousand pounds having the security of the 

 Italian Government besides being secured on the revenues of the Cavour Canal. 



AND WHEREAS the said John Peter Gassiot is desirous of devoting the said 

 Bonds and the produce thereof and the income thereof to the purposes herein- 

 after expressed and accordingly has caused the said Bonds (which pass by 

 delivery) to be handed over to the said Royal Society, and the same are now 

 in their custody as they do hereby acknowledge. 



Now THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH and it is hereby agreed and declared 

 between and by the persons parties hereto and the said John Peter Gassiot 

 DOTH by this deed which is intended to be executed by him in the presence 

 of and to be attested by two credible witnesses and to be forthwith enrolled 

 in the High Court of Chancery DIRECT that the said Royal Society their 

 successors and assigns shall hold the said Bonds and the moneys thereby 

 secured as a fund for the purpose of assisting and carrying on and continuing 

 magnetical and meteorological observations with self-recording instruments 

 and any other physical investigations that may from time to time be found 

 practicable and desirable in the Kew Observatory in the Old Deer Park at 

 Richmond in the County of Surrey now belonging to Her Majesty's Govern- 

 ment or in the event of that Government at any time declining or ceasing to 

 continue placing that building at the disposition of the said Royal Society 

 then in any other suitable building that the Council for the time being of the 

 said Royal Society may determine. 



AND for the carrying out of such purpose as aforesaid upon trust that the 

 said Royal Society their successors and assigns shall receive the principal 

 moneys secured by the said Bonds as and when they shall be compellable to 

 receive the same and (subject to the proviso hereinafter contained for rein- 

 vestment of the said principal moneys on like Italian Irrigation Bonds if the 

 same can be obtained) invest the moneys to be received by them as aforesaid 

 in the name of the said Royal Society their successors or assigns in or upon 

 any Parliamentary Stocks or public funds of Great Britain or on the Stock of 

 the Bank of England or Ireland or any East India Stock or at interest upon 

 Government or real or leasehold securities in England Wales or Ireland either 



