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50 Bengal year 1213, that whenever it be required it may prove a legal deed.'

Haji Mahomed Mohsin lived for six years after making this truly noble disposition of his property. For his own personal use he had reserved only so much property as would bring him in about one hundred rupees a month. Upon this small sum he was content to live, busily employed in setting the great Trust in order so that it might be wisely and well administered after his death. It is difficult to imagine a more admirable close to the end of a long and well-spent life than this chosen by Mahomed Mohsin. Rich beyond the dreams of avarice, he voluntarily gave up every thing, anxious only to see before his death the great Charitable Trust that he had founded so well administered that it might never, for all time to come, fail in the great objects for which he had designed it. Revered and respected in life, he thus raised up to himself while he yet lived a monument more lasting than brick and stone, a monument that will last for all time and which already in the century that has passed has caused so many generations to bless his name.

In 1812 Haji Mahomed Mohsin died at the ripe old age of eighty-two. He was buried with all the simplicity that he himself desired in the garden adjoining the Imambara which he had so splendidly endowed. He lies close by his well-loved step-sister, Manu Jan Khanum to whom he owed both