1928-11-07City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee:
Date: 07/11/1928
Place: Beverly Public Library
Board members present: Katharine P. Loring, Thomas F. Delaney, Marian P. Motley, and Fred
H. Porter
Board members absent: Caleb B. Hood, Helen L. Marsters, Rev. Clarence S. Pond, William A.
Rowe, and Robert O. Small
Others present:
Recorder:
Beverly, July 11th 1928
The Trustees met at 4 P.M.
Present Miss Loring, Mrs. Motley, Messrs. Delaney and Porter.
Report of the Finance Committee read and approved.
Voted: to accept the Librarian' s report.
Voted: to grant Miss Woodbury leave of absence with full pay until quarantine is lifted by
Board of Health.
Voted: That Miss Dodge's request that she be allowed two weeks sick leave with pay be
refused.
Voted: That sick leave should not be granted except by order of a physician.
Voted: That the petition ofWm. D. Sohier, Trustee under the will of Elizabeth P. Sohier
be placed on the records.
Voted: To rescind vote of December 1, 1927 regarding heating plan #1 and to adopt pan
#2 as per letter on file.
Report of the Administration Committee recommended the purchase of 74 titles and the
receipt of 14 gifts also a large number of post-cards for the picture collection.
Voted: That the recommendation of the Committee on Circulation be accepted and that
the thanks of the Trustees be extended for the gifts.
Voted: To adjourn until the regular meeting of the Trustees in September.
Adjourned
Fred H. Porter
Secretary Pro Tem
The consideration of provisions in the will of the late Elizabeth P. Sohier, at the termination
of Trust described in a letter from Col. William D. Sohier, hereto attached, the Beve~y Public Library
will receive a certain portion of her residuary estate.
The sale of a house belonging to Miss Sohier was made for $35,000.00 by permission of the
Court.
Col. Sohier and all other possible beneficiaries of the residuary estate join in a request to the
Court to allow this $35,000 to be added to the residuary property.
Wherefore be it voted that the Trustees of the Beverly Public Library join William D. Soltier
et al. in engaging Mr. Edward H. Abbott jr. to represent them in this case.
Essex, ss.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Probate Court
In the matter of the Petition of
William D. Sohier, Trustee under the
will ofElisabeth P. Sohier, late of
Beverly, in said County of Essex,
for instructions.
ANSWER OF
Beverly Public Library
Beverly Hospital Corporation
Boston Lying-in Hospital,
all Massachusetts corporations.
The above named, being corporations interested in the subject matter of the above mentioned
petition, submit to this Honorable Court that the fund now in the hands of the Petitioner should be
disposed of as follows: - That the sum of $34,604.01 should b e transferred to William Davies S ohier,
Jr. as Trustee of the residuary estate of said testatrix (under article 8 of the second codicil) to be held
and disposed of by him as a part of the principal of said residuary estate and that the sum of $928.96
should be transferred to said William Davies Sohier, Jr. as trustee as aforesaid, to be held and
disposed of by him as part of the income of said residuary estate.
By their attorneys,
Edwin H. Abbot, Jr.