AN OLD MAID'S WILL.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12750, 23 March 1910, Page 1

AN OLD MAID'S WILL.

An cldorj' spinster, who died in Vienna recently, left her fortune — about £50,000 — to be divided between her three nephews new aged twenty-four, iwonty-seven, and twenty-nino and her three nieces, aged nineteen, twentyjne, and twenty-two, in equal parts, )n the following conditions : — The six nephews and nieces must all • ivp- in the house formerly inhabited by heir aunt, with the executor, a lawyer, vhose business it will be to sco that :he conditions of the will are strictly )bserved. None of the nephews is tc> marry before reaching his fortieth yonr lor the nieces ' before their thirtieth, mder the penalty that the share of the we so marrying will be divided among the- others. Further, the six legatees are admonished never to quarrel among themselves. If one should do so persistently, the exreutor is empowered to turn him <..r her out of the house and divide the share as in the case of marriage. The executor is himself forbidden to i*»arrv or to reside elsewhere than in the house with the legatees as long as ho holds his office, to which a handsome rotnnngrstion is attached. The oldmaid is said to have mado this peculiar will because her nephews Mid nieces continually worried her during her life by asking her to give them money to enable them to marry;— i requests she alwayl reftntedJ*