2 BULLETIN OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 
life-estates had expired and all the legacies and annuities had 
been paid or secured, to convey all the testator’s property, real, 
personal, and mixed, to the President and Fellows of Harvard 
College upon the conditions and for the purposes set forth in the 
following extracts from the will: — 
“Before proceeding to make a further disposition of my property 
_ and estate, I think it will tend to elucidate and explain the several 
devises and dispositions thereof, hereinafter made, to state that in 
making this will I have two objects chiefly in view. My primary 
‘ object has been to provide in the best and most secure manner in my 
power a comfortable and respectable living after my decease for my 
family, namely, my wife, if she shall outlive me, and my daughter 
and her children now living, and to make some provision for great- 
grandchildren. My second object has been to benefit my fellow- - 
citizens and posterity, according to my ability, by devoting ultimately 
a large portion of my fortune to promote those branches of education 
which I deem most important and best calculated to advance the 
prosperity and happiness of our common country. I have also felt a 
particular desire to increase the usefulness of the schools of Law and 
Theology at Harvard College in Cambridge. In a nation whose govy- 
ernment is held to be a government of laws, I deem it important to 
promote that branch of education which lies at the foundation of wise 
legislation, and which tends to insure a pure and uniform administra- 
tion of justice ; and I have considered that, in a country whose laws 
extend equal protection to all religious opinions, that education which 
tends to disseminate just and rational views on religious subjects is 
entitled to special patronage and support..... 
“ And I do hereby further declare that all the real and personal 
property and estate so conveyed, transferred, and delivered to the 
President and Fellows of Harvard College shall stand charged and 
chargeable with the said annuities and payments, if not paid or pro- 
vided for, and shall be taken and held by said President and Fellows 
of Harvard College as a permanent, public corporate body specially 
charged with the care and superintendence of the higher branches of 
education, wpon the trust and confidence that they will manage and 
invest the same,to the best advantage ; that they will retain the estate 
on which I now live in said Roxbury, called ‘Woodland Hill,’ consist- 
