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Rh to that end Mr. Helmbold made a "first rough draft" of a codicil, the manuscript of which he has preserved. It bears marks of dictation, with some of Williamson's characteristic forms of expression. Here we find his scheme in its formative stage, only partly worked out, but of much the same nature as the well rounded-out foundation deed into which it developed. He uses the term "managers" instead of the later "trustees." His opening paragraph raises a complaint afterwards omitted, regarding trades unions: "The subject of the proper training and education of the young to habits of economy and industry, whereby they shall become self-sustaining, has received my careful attention; and the unwarrantable position taken to some extent by Trades Unions and other Labor organizations in regard to apprenticeships—assuming as they do, arbitrarily, to control and limit the number that shall be admitted to learn a trade—is fraught with great danger to the community, in compelling the young to grow up in habits of idleness, leading at times to vice and crime."

Three features of the manuscript notes,