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 BOTD V. BOYD. 139 �"1. I direct my whole estate existing at the time of my decease — real, personal and mixed, private and partnership — to be kept together, managed, controUed, disposed of, and distributed as hereinafter directed. �"2. I give to my beloved wife and children the use of my Arlington property in Natchez, or such other dwelling-house as may be our usual family residence at the time of my death, to be so held during the life of my said wife, at ail events, and after her death for the use of such of our children as may survive her, until such survivor or survivors marry or arrive at the age of 21 years. With said residence I include ail the furniture, carriages, horses, servants, and other things appur- taining thereto, and in the ordinary use of the family. So far as the children are concerned this right to cease as each arrives at the age of 21 years or marries. And for the sup- port, education, and maintenance of my said family, under this clause of my will, as well as for keeping up said estab- lishment, I direct my executor, hereinafter named, to apply a grosB sum net exceeding |10,000 per year, and an additional sum not exceeding $2,000 per year for the sole and separate use of my wife, ail without accountability or charge to them on the final settlement of my estate, and to come out of the income or profits of my estate. It is also my desire and in- tention that my beloved sisters-in-law, Ann and Maria Wilkins, remain in the use of said residence as long as any of the famity occupy it under this clause of my will. �"3. As each of my children become of age (21 years) or marry, I direct the above allowance of $10,000 to be dimin- jshed $2,000 per year, and so also should any of them die. �"4. As each of my children become of age or married I give to such child the sum of $50,000, to be invested by my executor in productive property — land and slaves preferred — for the sole and separate use of such child forever ; but if such child should die without issue surviving, then and in that case this devise to return to my estate and be distributed as here- inafter directed. �"5. The investments and disbursements hereinbefore di- rected are to come from the income and profits of my estate; ����