Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1910 — A Curious Will. [ARTICLE]

A Curious Will.

An extraordinary will has been left by an elderly unmarried lady who died in Vienna. Her property, amounting to about £50,000, is appointed to be divided between her three nephews, now aged twenty-four, twenty-seven and twenty-nine, and her three nieces, aged nineteen,, twenty-one and twentytwo, in equal parts on the following conditions: The six nephews and nieces must all live in the house formerly inhabited by their aunt, with the exceutor, a lawyer, whose business it will be to see that the conditional the will are strictly observed. None of the nephews is to marry before reaching his fortieth year or the nieces before their thirtieth, under the penalty that the share of the one 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 executor is empowered to turn him or her out of the house and divide the share as in the case of marriage. The excutor is himself forbidden to marry or to reside elsewhere than in the house with the legatees as long as he holds his office, to which a handsome remuneration is attached. The old maid is said to have made this peculiar will because her nephews and nieces continually worried her during her life by asking her to give them money to enable them to marry, requests she always refused. —London Express.