Word: bequeaths
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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...supposed that the executors had always intended to resign their claim to the property. As there is a state law forbidding a man with a family to bequeath more than half of his property to institutions, and as the will provided that $2,100,000 should be given to colleges, etc., Mr. Fayerweather probably entrusted the residuary legacy of some $1,500,000 to the executors with the secret understanding that they should in turn give it to the colleges...
Twenty-eighth: I give and bequeath to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars upon the trust and the uses following. that is to say, that the said corporation shall without unreasonable delay erect upon land belonging or to belong to it in a suitable and desirable situation an Art Museum to be called and known as the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum of Harvard College, to be a fire proof structure of ornamental and appropriate architecture to be used for the collection and exhibition of works of art of every...
...further give and bequeath to the said corporation the sum of twenty thousand dollars upon trust to keep the same invested upon good income paying securities or property and to apply the income thereof from time to time towards the expenses of maintenance and care of the said Art Museum, and the surplus of such income, if any, to the purchase of works of art to be added to the said museum...
...also give and bequeath to the said corporation the marble bust of my said husband made by the late H. K. Browne, sculptor, to be kept in a suitable hall or room in the said Art Museum...