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Show I A r.-,ij',t I i )i k 1 1 11. Tlie supremo court of Ponnsviv or ; ha3 ju-l rendered a decision upo, :,:i: --tlie --tlie bequest made bv Benjamin I lm a centurv ago to promote earn- i: riages. irankhn bequeaia'-d i-; i,. each to the cuies ot paiia:- . and Boston, to ba lent n;o:i i.. :-monv :-monv to apprentices who wi-nr-: ! ., till i tm I nl rate ot interest To lie cuarged was .1 c t 1 1 Ft nl 1 1 c 1 ll t 1 t tne end ot a hunured years tne frail-, each city would amount to t.j.i. It 1 c td tl t tl ( oil 1 ( I be spent bv each city 111 public mipruv. meats and the remainder lent to t on married coupus lor another JuO yea,.-It yea,.-It was then to be divided between tL( citv and the state. A year a'o last fall tno iirst cemui". had rolled around, and the Plnla.V: pin a fund amounted to a little less tun,, $100,000, while the Boston fund amount ed to nearly WO,000, or almost asnmc!; as Franklin estimated. Meanwhile, however, the apprenticeship system lne died out, while the Franklin family hao not, except as to public spirit. Two ol the descendants of the great thinki i seized the occasion to bring suit to si ! aside the will and have the funil turned over to Franklin's natural heirs viz., themselves. There were several grounds upon which the heirs broughi this suit, the chief being that the will established a "perpetuity," without be ing essentially charitable, inasmuch n-interest n-interest was charged to each recipient of the fund. It was also urged that the will should be set aside because it was no louget possible to carry out ono of its main provisions, since apprentices had ceased to exist. Both of these grounds and all others the court rejects as inadequate t: sustain the claim of the contestants. The two funds will therefore go on compounding for another 100 years. Exchange. |