Bullard v. Inhabitants of Shirley

This is a bill for instructions, brought by the trustees under the will of Mary D. Whitney, touching the disposition of the fund given by the second clause of the will. That clause is as follows: “ Secondly, I give and bequeath to my friend, Rev. Seth Chandler, of Shirley, the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), which after his death shall revert to the town afore named strictly on this condition, namely, that said town shall support fairly and permanently a Unitarian clergyman, in which case all interest accruing on above sum shall be *560used to aid in payment of his salary, failing which it…