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$100.00 per year as expenses. Mrs. A.M. Metcalf br. $1500. money & household fund with compound interest seventeen years; Also seventeen years labot at $150.00 per year and boarded, deducting $50.00 per year expenses. Annuity of $100.00, is for seventeen years. To this last partners amount to be added or subtracted the value or cost of 'broughting ' up" sundry younger members of family. [this next paragraph has lines running through it to appear to say it is crossed out]

As for instance I.S.M.Dr 9 years board at $50 interest annual   per year, 13 years clothing & expenses at $50 interest annual per year. br. 1st year -- 2 yrs 50, 3 yrs. 50, fourth year 100, 5th yr 1,25. 6th yr at school -- 7th yr, 150. 8th yr 200.  9th yr. 200, 10th & 11th At School Mostly 12th & 13th yrs 600, (200 of it cash earned elsewhere) all with annual interest, on any other reckoning However I guess it is generally allowed that the broughting up of so remarkably smart industrious hardworking & good natured young people as some I could name was not very expensive. 

// However, supposing that matter all settled, and the exact relative proportions of the property rightfully belonging to each all definitely fixed upon there still remains to tell how much those properties are now really worth -- no very easy task either. Then if its value can be decided or determined, to tell what to do with it, is the next question. There seem to be large difficulties in the war of almost any way of settling it I can think of at present. Some may be better than others. Think over the matter, if you have not already. and write to me about it. It is the duty of all to counsel the parties and keep them out of trouble, it is can be done. In counsel is safety & Wisdom.