brary; a corporation duly established by the laws of said Commonwealth and located at said Gloucester, for the purposes and uses set forth in said act of incorporation.

I also give to my said trustees in trust, any endowment fund or funds now held by or that may hereafter be given to said corporation, for the purposes expressed in said act of incorporation, which shall be transferred to said trustees, and survivors of them, or to those appointed, as herein provided, to be carefully and safely invested, and the income only to be paid over to said corporation as often as the same may be collected, to be appropriated by the directors of said institution for the purchasing of books, or other literature, to keep the buildings and premises always in good repair and condition and for the adornment and general support of the Institution.

No part of the real estate nor the personal property shall be alienated, but they shall be held sacredly in trust and in perpetuity.

Touching the power of substitution and appointment by the surviving trustees, to fill the vacancies occasioned by death, resignation, or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the survivors to keep the number of trustees always promptly at seven, but the surviving members for the time being shall execute and discharge the duties until the vacancies are filled, and in order to fill such vacancies, the appointment of some suitable person or persons shall be made by vote of a majority of the surviving trustees, and that in the new trustee or trustees so appointed, shall be vested the same powers, rights and interest in the trust property as is now pos

sessed by the present members of the board of trustees, and subject to the same duties and liabilities.

Whenever an appointment is made to fill a vacancy or vacancies, the surviving trustees, or a majority of them, shall by a writing signed and sealed by them, be made in duplicate, and one of said writings appointing such trustee or trustees shall within five days after such appointment be filed by said trustees with the clerk of said corporation and recorded.

To have and to hold the granted premises, together with an endowment fund, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging, to the said Babson, Hildreth, Rogers, Rich, Procter, Stevens and Haskell, Trustees, and their heirs and assigns, to their own use and behoof forever, but in trust, nevertheless, for the following purposes, namely:

The object of the purchase and conveyance of the property herein named to my said trustees and their successors in the office is for the purpose of carrying out a cherished plan long held in abeyance, of establishing a permanent home for the Institution known as the Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library, which shall be devoted to the use of the citizens of Gloucester especially, and to strangers so far as may be considered advisable by a majority of the Board of Directors, who shall have the power to make the ByLaws and Rules for the government of the corporation.

The act of incorporation states briefly "That the object of the Institution is for the purpose of maintaining a Free Library, Lectures, Collections in Natural History, Works of Art, and the promotion of intellectual culture generally, which I heartily endorse and approve." And I hereby for myself and my heirs, executors

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DEED OF CONVEYANCE.

Know all men by these presents, that I, Samuel E. Sawyer, of Gloucester, County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in consideration of one dollar, paid by John James Babson, Charles H. Hildreth, Allan Rogers, Hiram Rich, Joseph O. Procter, Joseph L. Stevens and Edward H. Haskell, trustees, all residents of said Gloucester, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell, and convey, unto the said Babson, Hildreth, Rogers, Rich, Procter, Stevens and Haskell, who are appointed my trustees, and have accepted the trust to act under the authority herein given, with full power of substitution to fill any vacancies occasioned by death or otherwise, in order that this trust shall be made perpetual:

A certain tract or parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, situate on the corner of Middle street and Dale avenue in said Gloucester, as described by a deed of conveyance to Samuel E. Sawyer by William A. Pew, dated January twenty-eighth, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and recorded in the Essex Registry of Deeds, Southern District, February first, 1884, Book 1124, Leaf 10, containing (29,944 feet) twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and forty-four feet of land, more or less; a full description of the same may be found in said deed, to which reference may be had.

This property is given to my trustees for the benefit, in trust, of the Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Li

and administrators, covenant with the grantees and their heirs and assigns that I am lawfully seized in fee simple of the granted premises, that they are free from all incumbrances, that I have good right to sell and convey the same as aforesaid; and that I will and my heirs, excutors and administrators shall warrant and defend the same to the grantees and their heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.

And for the consideration aforesaid I, Abby I. Sawyer wife of the said Samuel E. Sawyer, do hereby release unto the grantees and their heirs and assigns all right of to both dower and homestead in the granted premises.

In witness whereof we the said Samuel E. Sawyer and Abby I. Sawyer, wife of said Samuel E. Sawyer hereunto set our hands and seals this twenty-sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

(s'gd) SAMUEL E. SAWYER. [L. S.] (s'gd) ABBY I. SAWYER.

Signed and sealed in the presence of

(s'gd) EDWARD DOLLIVER,

(8'gd) JOHN S. THOMPSON,

(6'gd) SAMUEL A. STACY.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

ESSEX, SS.

[L. S.]

GLOUCESTER, April 26, 1884.

Then personally appeared the above named Samuel E. Sawyer, and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be his free act and deed before me.

(s'gd) CHARLES P. THOMPSON,

Justice of the Peace.