Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 299)

Nov. 24 [186]5

John T. Heard Esq

Dear Sir,

I will pre-
sent your paper-extract from
will of Mrs Gurney -- to the Trus-
tees, if you desire, but it is
nothing on which they can act.

As I suggested to you, the
only feasible plan I can see
(if it can be accomplished, of which
I am by no means certain) is
to have the parties release enough
from the income to enable you
to make a perpetual contract
with our Corporation for the care of the lot
& get the S.J. Court to decree accordingly.

Then the subject comes up in
shape for action by our board. Now
they have no power.

Very Resp.y yrs.

A.J. Coolidge
Sec.y

Nov^r 24, [186]5

H.D. Bacon Esq
San Francisco, Cal.

Dear Sir,

Your favor of Oct 20^th
from St. Louis respecting the dispo-
sition which Mrs Sophia L.B. Jones
is alleged to have made in her will
of lot no. 1131 in Mt Auburn
was duly rec^d.

In reply, I have to say that Mrs
Jones was on the 5^th of March 1860,
upon her own request designated to
"represent" said lot under the Charter,
an extract from which I send you.
If Mr Thos. Jones devised this lot
to his wife by will, it was hers
to convey or devise again: but
as she represents herself to be "admin-
istratrix" in the petition for the above-
mentioned designation, I can only
infer that Mrs Jones left no will.

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