KF645

LEGACIES

The following suggestions in regard to the drafting of Wills are made for the information of those who desire to leave bequests to the Society, and thus to perpetuate the work when their own personal efforts are ended:

FORM OF A BEQUEST

I give and heaveath to the American Bible Society, formed in

id sixteen, and incorforty-one, the sum of able uses and purposes

the above form can

the land], and I give formed in New York ad incorporated in the he proceeds thereof, the he charitable uses and

act of the Legislature as by subsequent legit was authorized to l property by gift or grants, bequests and be made directly to he purposes compreety, and such trusts essary to accomplish ted. It is, however, e by residents of the he provisions of the ed that

ild, or parent, shall, e or bequeath to any eligious, or mission

ary society, association, or corporation, in trust or otherwise, more than one half part of his or her estate, after the payment of his or her debts (and such devise or bequest shall be valid to the extent of one half, and no more)."

The Society, by the general and special powers given to it by the Legislature of New York, can, in the absence of local statutory restrictions, take and hold real estate in other States by gift or devise.