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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
Volume 200, Volume 4, Page 180   View pdf image (33K)
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180 HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
"Thirteenth. It is my will and desire that my friend, William
Rea, shall be the executor of this my last will and testament,
and that he shall be entitled to have and receive for his trouble
and personal expenses ten per cent. on the inventory as execu-
tor, and also ten per cent. on the money he shall pay over as
trustee to the several persons interested in the trust, in addition
to any other expenses he may deem it just and right to incur
for the benefit of the property confided to him as executor or
trustee."
On the same day he added a codicil, in which he made a be-
quest of a silver pitcher to each of two friends, and afterwards,
on the 27th of October, 1840, he executed a second codicil, by
which he ratified and confirmed his will, "save and except such
clauses, bequests and devises therein mentioned as are by me
hereinafter revoked and made void." He then revoked the
fourth clause of his will, and substituted therefor the following :
"I give and devise unto the said L. M. Roberts, in addi-
tion to the above during her natural lifetime and no longer, all
that farm I purchased of James A. Waddell, the then sheriff of
Dorchester county, aa the property of William A. Wheatley, and
after her death I give and devise the said farm unto my friend,
William Rea, and his heirs and assigns forever, in trust for the
benefit of my two negro boys, Daniel and Henry, in the same man-
ner as provided for by the general provisions of this my will."
"The eleventh section of my will 1 revoke, so far as the same
shall be found inconsistent with the following clause of this my
codicil. If any bequest or devise contained in my last will and
testament, or this my codicil, shall fail to take effect from any
cauae, in such an event I will and desire that the trustee and
executor by this will appointed, shall immediately transfer the
equitable and legal title to the same, be the same real or per-
sonal, (except negroes,) to the states of Delaware, Pennsylva-
nia or New Jersey, for the benefit of said states, or either of
them that will guarantee the freedom and emancipation of my
slaves by this my will and codicil, to be liberated and freed, as
well as my two young negroes, Washington Decatur, aged about
fifteen months, and my negro girl Diana, aged about nine

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