BEQUESTS. Elisha Goodnow, of Boston, by will dated July 12, 1849, makes the City of Boston residuary legatee to his estate, real and personal, for the benefit of a City Hospital. Provided, that one-half of the proceeds shall be applied to the establishment and perpetual maintenance of free beds, under the control of the government and officers of the said Hospital for the time being. The following sums of money have been received: 1862, June 9. From executor's balance of ac count at Probate Office 1864, April 14. Proceeds of sale of estate on Old buildings upon same 1864, December 31. From City of 223 00 $623 85 Boston, for 225 square feet of land taken from above estate to widen Cross street 523 36 15,653 48 1864, July 1. Interest on same from city to this date 222 67 Amount carried forward $16,500 00 Amount brought forward. 1867, November 30. From Boston, Hartford and Erie R. R. for 5,167 square feet land taken by New York Central R. R. from estate on Third street, South Boston 1868, January 1. Proceeds of sale, balance of estate on Third street, South Boston, 1,516 square feet $16,500 00 3,875.25 758 00 $21,133 25 1869, January 1. Of the above amount, say $20,500, is invested in city scrip, interest payable semi-annually, at six per cent. per annum, and deposited with the City Auditor, who is required to receive the interest upon the said scrip, and add the same to the moneys appropriated for the use of the Hospital. The balance on interest in the hands of the City Treasurer, to be invested as above, is $633.25. 1868, January. The $10,000 deposited by the Executors of Mr. Goodnow, June 22, 1852, with the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, the interest upon which is to be paid to the widow, will, upon her decease, be distributed as follows: $500 to the Penitent Females' Refuge. $5,000 to City of Boston; income to be expended for the relief of sick and infirm persons. $4,500 to be added to the fund heretofore provided for the support of free beds in the City Hospital. Lawrence Nichols, of Boston, by will dated August 19, 1862, and recorded Suffolk Registry of Wills, vol. 160, fol. 140, bequeathed to the City of Boston, towards the support of a City Hospital, the sum of $1,000. 1863, April 29. The executor of Mr. Nichols paid the City Treasurer $1,000, less the United States tax The City of Boston paid interest on same $937 25 62 75 $1,000 00 1864, July 1. The above amount, say $1,000, has been invested in City of Boston scrip, dated July 1, 1864, twenty years, with six per cent. interest, payable semi-annually, and deposited with the City Auditor, as required by ordinance. 1865, March 14. Received as Residuary Legatee, from the estate of Mr Nichols, and now in the hands of the Treasurer $530 50 1868, January 1. The trustees received the sum of two thousand dollars from Hon. Otis Norcross, as the foundation of a fund for the benefit of patients leaving the hospital poor and destitute of proper clothing. The principal sum is invested in a City of Boston interest-bearing note, to be deposited with the City Auditor, the interest of which is to be collected annually or oftener, and paid over to the President of the Board of Trustees, for the time being, of the City Hospital, to be by him expended at his discretion for the benefit and temporary assistance of those patients who are in his judgment deserving, and who are destitute of proper clothing in which to leave the hospital, and having no means of procuring it. |