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own garden without the attendance or offices of any priest whatever. In witness whereof I, the said 
Robert Kyd, have to this my last will and testament set. my hand and seal, declaring this to be 
my last will and testament, and revoking all former wills. Dated this eighteentk day of May in 
the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. 
Signed, sealed, published and declared by ROBERT KYD & 
the above-named as his last will and testa- ? 
ment in the presence of us, who at his request, A true copy carefully collated by me with 
in his presence, and in the presence of each the original will which was delivered out of 
other, have subscribed our names as witnesses Court b order of 2nd January 1794. 
thereto in Calcutta, where no stamps are to be 
Wa. JACKSON, 
Regr. §& Not. Pub. 
had. 
Herpert Harris. 
J. FLEMING. 
DanieEL TEMPLETON. 
-' Tr is my desire that Mr. Henry Wilsone keep up the establishment now employed of labourers 
for keeping my garden in order, consisting of a serang, four labourers, and a number of children, 
and alsu the two Europeans now in charge of the small. vessel; that the two boys Missah and George 
be allowed to remain at the gardens until Major Kyd’s arrival, which may be expected in July. All 
my loose papers in the several tin boxes had best be. kept for Major Kyd’s previous examination. 
In addition to what is mentioned in my will respecting my being buried in my own garden, that: 
my burial may be attended with no military ceremony, and. that I trust my friend Captain Apsley 
will pay due attention to this article, and see my last remains committed to the ground in my own 
garden, on the west side of the pucka-walled tank near to where an alligator pear tree now stands, 
and that my funeral expenses do not exceed three hundred rupees. 
There are in the house at Sibpur three boxes containing botanical drawings of the plants in 
the environs of this petty district; also a box and several books containing an unfinished collection of 
the birds indigenous to this tract, as also of such as migrate here from the adjoining frontiers during 
the cold and hot weather: also of the fish frequenting the Hooghly. These, having been collected 
at the Company’s expense, are public property and should be transmitted to the Court of Directors, 
although unarranged in botanical or artificial order which I had reserved for a future day. 
Gardens, 18th May 1793. ROBERT KYD. 
A true copy carefully collated by me with the original 
codicil which was delivered out of Court by order 
of the said 2nd January 1794. : 
Wan. JACKSON, 
Regr. & Not. Pub. 
I vo hereby certify that this j one : bing : 
of April 1808, a y , a his z a true copy of the original in my custody, dated this 24th day 
Rk. BELCHAMBERS, 
Registrar of the High Court of Judicature at 
Fort William in Bengal, Original Jurisdiction. 
