Wealth to Be Sunk in Sea A provision of one of the most remarkable wills ever admitted to probate by the English Court is to the effect that, should certain con_ tingencies arise, all funds of the estate shall be sunk in mid-Atlantic. Testator ws Mr, Alfred Henry Freud, of Richmond Road, Twickenham (otherwise known as Henry Shrapnel), He directs that his trustees shall never (unless it be decreed imperative by a Court of Law or unless an action at law be forced upon them) employ a solicitor or any person hereafter transacting present solicitor's business under another name, nor any person transacting business which is now the exclusive right of a barrister-at-law, and that the Public Trustee shall never be employed, Any by a referee named by him Written directions is to equal or superior to a legal decision.
As regards Inland Revenue Officizls, he says "they are servants of the public, paid by the public, for the benefit of the public, and to endeavour to best? or defraud a Briton to surfeit those on top with money is not part of their duty."
"Beyond taxation, none of my property, which for this purpose shall include trust funds, shall ever go to the British State, whose oppression (intensified by officit!s) falls so terribly heavy on my class as to be slowly exterminating, and which has so overpowering an' eye to enriching its members that it lost the United States of America. and keeps in force laws which all humanity knows to be unjust, and scorns to respect Bible teaching. My feelings are 'God save the Peoples,' in spite of those over them luxuriating on their moneys ang. curtailing their liberty."
In the event of any dangerous attempt for obtaining Parliamentary or other legal authority to alter the provisions of this my will, my trustees shall remove the trust out of the home jurisdiction into that of another Power, or in the very last extremity pay the whole capital to foreign societies alleviating—the sufferings of animals,"
Coxtests Wim Istasp Revex He left the income from his property to his sisters or the survivor of them for life, and then (1) his trusices are to see to the upkeep and improvement of his grave, "and as I pity the weak and have grievously suffered and seen others suffer by the rapacity and vile extravagance of the British State and the unfaithfulness of public ser. vants, my trustees are (in accordance with funds) to assist persons of insufficient—in a liberal sense—means to contest and em "ass any (to my trustees' seeming) unlawful exactions, and doubtful claims by British Inland Revenue, and very especially to fix personally on any civil servant any considered deviation from law outside embezzlement 2s public Gibson benefactor, recommended ty that
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