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or continue itself as a Board of Visitors. I hope that in any case my brother's name may be connected with the use that may be determined on.

" Should it be deemed best to apply the fund or its income to various objects, I would mention as objects which have interested me, but without meaning at all to hamper the Board, the North End Mission ; the Watch and Ward Society ; the Avon Street Home, Cambridge ; Home for Aged Colored Women, Boston ; Roxbury Home for Aged Women and for Children ; Mr. Angell's Society for Humane Education and Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ; South Congregational Society for their Industrial School and Vacation School, and for Vacation Schools in Roxbury ; education at the South, as at Hampton and Tuskegee ; the effort in Boston to save children here from degrading conditions ; the Ramabai Association.

" Should such a destination of the whole fund be thought advisable, a Trade or Industrial School, either under the auspices of the Institute of Technology or other body, or independent of any other body, would seem to me to be very useful. I desire, however, to leave the matter wholly to the Board."

Acting under the general provisions of this trust deed, the "Board of the J. W. Randall Fund" became finally constituted as "The John W. and Belinda L. Randall Charities Corporation," comprising Francis G. Peabody, Francis V. Balch, Charles W. Birtwell, Annette P. Rogers, George S. Hale, Robert H. Richards, and Henry L. Hig- ginson, for whom Mr. Balch acted as Treasurer. This cor- poration has applied a portion of the fund, on condition in each case of connecting the names of the brother and sister with whatever use may be made of the money, as fol- lows : —

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