Description Will of Calvin T. Bent of Town of New Glasgow, NS

(Typed)

Copy of Will of C.T. Bent

Copy of Will for the Registrar of Deeds

This is the last will and testament of me Calvin T. Bent of the Town of New Glasgow, in the County of Pictou, N.S., Merchant,

I hereby revoke all former wills or testamentary dispositions.

I give, devise and bequeath all my real and personal estate and property of every nature and description including choses in action which I am possessed of and all property that I may become entitled to or over which I have any power of disposition or appointment to my wife, Lucy Bent, absolutely and forever and I appoint her the sole executrix of this my will.

In case my said wife should die before me I then devise and bequeath all my said real and personal property including choses in action and property that I may become entitled to or over which I have any power of disposition to my oldest child residing at the time in Pictou County (temporary absence not to be considered) in trust for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and I hereby appoint such oldest child so residing in the County of Pictou the sole executor or executrix of this my last Will.

The said property is conveyed to such executor or executrix upon the following terms:

(a) That after the property has been appraised the same or any part thereof shall be offered in turn to my children going from the oldest to the youngest at the appraised value and whatever personal property is not so sold may be sold by the executor or executrix at private sale to any person at the appraised value and if not sold shall be sold at public auction. At any sale, either public or private the executor or executrix shall have power to buy at such sale and shall be allowed to purchase the property like the other children.

(b) The foregoing provision as to personal property shall not include shares in the incorporated Company. Such shares shall be divided equally among my children so far as possible: any shares left over or after making such division shall be converted into money as provided in section (a) hereof.

(c) My business may be continued by the executor or executrix for two years for the purpose of winding up the same and may be continued for such further time as all the heirs may agree to and during said period of two years while the business is being carried on or at any later time with the consent of all the heirs said business may be sold as a going concern.

(d) My real estate may be sold at private sale at the appraised value but shall first be offered at such appraised value to my children in order commencing with the oldest and if not so sold the same or any part remaining unsold shall be sold at public auction and the proceeds divided equally among all my children.

(e) The executor or executrix shall rank with the other children as regards to the right to purchase and shall be at liberty to purchase at public sale.

(f) The executor or executrix shall have the right to keep possession of my said real and personal property until disposed of in accordance with the terms of this will.

(g) In case there be no child living in Pictou County at the time of my decease the child living nearest to Pictou County shall be the executor or executrix and shall have all the powers hereinbefore mentioned.

(h) The conversion of my property into money shall be accomplished within two years and six months but the tie may be extended by the consent of all the heirs.

(i) To pay my just debts, funeral expenses and all other expenses incidental to the administration of my estate and to erect a suitable monument over my grave.

(j) When all my property shall be turned into money with the exception of the shares distributed among my children, referred to in paragraph (b) hereof, the said executor or executrix shall distribute the balance of my estate among my children in equal shares. Children of any deceased child in rank in place of and take the parent's share.

(k) Until the estate is so distributed any money in the hands of the executor or executrix shall be deposited in a chartered bank of the Dominion of Canada.

In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand this 10th day of December A.D. 1910.

Signed Calvin T. Bent L.S.

Signed, published and declared by the above named Calvin T. Bent, Testator, as and for his last Will and testament in the presence of us both, present at the same time, who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.

Signed Hope Atwater

Signed Lina M. Smth

witnesses.

County of Pictou

In the Court of Probate of Wills

I John D. McLeod of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing paper written is a true copy of the last Will and Testament of Calvin T. Bent, late of New Glasgow in the County of Pictou, Merchant, deceased, which has been duly filed and admitted to Probate in said Court on the ninth day of October AD 1913.

Witness my hand at Pictou this 9th. day of October 1913. John D. MacLeod Registrar

Stamp - PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA, REGISTRAR OF DEEDS Office, County of Pictou OCT 31 1913 I certify that the within instrument was duly registered at 3:30 PM of the above day in Book 5 page 185 on the certificate of John D. MacLeod Reg John Yorston Registrar.