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ing the brain, and converting the school-room into an unat- 

 tractive place little better than a prison. 



It is believed that the amount proposed to be given will 

 be sufficient for the purchase of the ground, erect suitable 

 buildings and supply all the tools and apparatus required for 

 the carrying out of the enterprise. The annual expense in- 

 curred of running the institution, after deducting the amount 

 it would be entitled to receive from the school fund, should 

 be cheerfully borne by the city. Should the proposition be 

 entertained and the city accept the gift, it may be necessary to 

 execute articles of agreement to secure the faithful perform- 

 ance of the trust assumed by the city. 



T. M. Allyn. 



EXTEACT FROM THE WiLL OF DaVID W ATKINSON, WHO 



DIED AT Hartford, Conn., Dec. 18, 1857. 

 Codicil No. 11. 



Article V. " Desiring to render a public benefit to the com- 

 munity in which I live, and to the State of Connecticut gener- 

 ally, by aiding in the establishment in the town of Hartford of 

 a Juvenile Asylum and Farm School, for the family and school 

 and industrial training of a class of children not now adequately 

 provided for in any educational or humane institution : I do 

 give and bequeath to my Executors the lot of land of about 

 ten acres, surrounded b}^ four streets, known as the Pavilion 

 property, with the buildings standing thereon, and by me esti- 

 mated to be worth the sum of $1:0,000 and iu addition to said 

 lot the sum of $20,000, said lot to be conveyed in fee simple, 

 and said money to be paid over to Henry Barnard 2d, Edmond 

 G. Howe, William L. Collins, William N. Matson, Henry Clay 

 Trumbull, Daniel C. Gilman, Koland Mather, Newton Case, 

 Alfred Watkinson, John S. Butler, Henry A. Perkins, Albert 

 W. Butler, Edward Goodwin, E. A. Bulkeley, William D. 

 Shipman and Austin Dunham, or such of them as may be living 

 at the time of my decease, as Trustees for the purposes and 

 uses herein set forth, viz : — to aid in the establishment and 

 support of an institution for the relief, protection, instruction, 

 reformation and employment of children between the ages of 



