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required for completing the said survey and publishing the results thereof — a 
work which my son had much at heart : Therefore I do hereby undertake forth- 
with to invest in the names of Robert Jenkins, Agent of the Union Bank of 
Scotland, Bridge of Allan, John Blair, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh, and 
myself, the sum of Ten thousand pounds, such sum to be invested in the purchase 
of Consolidated Stock of the United Kingdom (Consols), which Consolidated 
Stock and any investment or investments that may from time to time be 
substituted for the same, and the interest or other annual income of such 
Consolidated Stock or other investment or investments, I direct shall be applied 
by the said Robert Jenkins, John Blair, and myself, and the survivors and 
survivor, or by such other person or persons as may from time to time be assumed 
into the Trust hereby created (all of whom are hereinafter included under the 
expression " the Trustees") as follows : (First) In paying all charges which maybe 
incurred in the administration of the Trust, including in such charges all 
travelling and personal expenses which the Trustees may incur in attending 
meetings or otherwise in connection with the business of the Trust ; (Second) In 
carrying on and completing or providing for carrying on and comj^leting the 
said survey, being a bathymetrical survey of the principal fresh-water lakes of the 
United Kingdom, including an examination into the biological and physical 
conditions of the lakes, and in pul)lishing the results of such survey and 
examination ; Declaring that while I hereby give to the Trustees full powers to 
arrange for the conduct of the said survey and all matters connected with or 
incidental thereto, it is my special desire that they shall commit to the said Sir 
J ohn Murray, so long as he is willing to undertake the same, the superintendence 
of the work and the publication of the results, and the disbursing of all outlays in 
connection therewith. And (Third) In paying to myself or my executors the 
balance, if any, of principal and income which may remain after fulfilling the 
foregoing purposes. And I hereby provide and declare that if I should die so 
soon after the delivery of these presents as to render Government Duties exigible 
on the Fund hereby settled, my executors shall be bound to pay such Government 
Duties and so free and relieve the Trustees thereof ; And I also provide and 
declare that the Trustees shall have all the powers, privileges and immunities of 
gratuitous Trustees according to the law of Scotland, and in addition thereto the 
following powers and immunities, viz. j)ower to appoint such officers, including 
any one or more of their own number, as they may consider necessary for 
executing or carrying out the work or administration of the Trust, and to pay such 
officers such salaries or other remuneration as they (the Trustees) may from time 
to time consider proper, also power from time to time to make such arrangements 
and lay down such rules as may in their opinion be rec^uisite or expedient for 
securing the convenient and efficient carrying out of tlie work of the Trust ; And 
I further provide and declare that the Trustees shall be the sole judges as to when 
the Trust purposes have been fulfilled ; and that they shall not to any extent or 
in any way be responsible to me or to my heirs or executors, or to any other 
person or to any society or others whatsoever, for the proper execution of the work 
of the said survey or for any operations, matters or things in connection therewith 
or for the safety of the certificates, bonds or other documents which may from time 
to time be held for the Trust Funds, or for the securities or investments ujDon 
which the Funds may from time to time be invested or lent out, or for any 
depreciation in the value of the investments, or for the honesty or solvency of 
those to whom the same may be entrusted. And I consent to registration hereof 
for preservation ; In Witness Whereof these presents written on this and the 
preceding page by William Blacklock, Clerk to Davidson & Syme, W^riters to the 
