Twelve Wise Men and What They Did for a Race A Through the education and training of the children, all race problems are solved SCHOOLS OF THE FREEDMEN’S AID SOCIETY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH BROUGHT DOWN TO DATE I Twelve Wise Men They met in Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, fifty years ago, and organized a movement to carry the gospel of enlightenment, uplift, and religion to the four millions of ex-slaves recently given their freedom by an Emancipation Proclamation from the President of the United States of America. These Freedmen had no educa- tion, no property, and, worse than all, no experi- ence in taking care of themselves. They had gained very feeble notions of right and wrong, and had but distorted visions of what freedom meant. To a very large number of them it meant release from the control of the taskmaster and ability to go where they chose and do as they pleased. Many of them thought that the government was going to provide for them, or that the lands of their former masters would be divided up among them, and that hereafter they would have little or nothing to do except to enjoy the abundant blessings of a pa- ternal government and a kindly Providence. The Freedmen’s Aid Society These twelve men organized the Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and at once sent school teachers into the South to gather the scattered and ignorant people together in any sort of shack or building, or even in the open air, to teach them the responsibilities of manhood and 2 womanhood and citizenship. Gradually the church responded to the calls of the Society for the money necessary to put up buildings and pay teachers, until, after fifty years of earnest and faithful service on the part of teachers and liberal giving by the church, there are at the present time under the control of the Freedmen’s Aid Society twenty-one institutions of learning, located in strategic cen- ters throughout the Southern States, with 351 teachers and 5,804 students, sending out their streams of intellectual, industrial, and moral influ- ence into the masses of the Negro race, now grown to be ten millions. During the half century of their work, over 200,000 boys and girls have at- tended the schools. Large numbers of them have graduated and are now the leading factors in the ministry and membership not only of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but of all the colored churches in the South. From nothing the property of the Society has grown until to-day it is valued at 82,007,750, and the annual income from collections in the churches, bequests, gifts, and legacies, with payments from students themselves, amounts to a round half million of dollars. The 350,000 colored members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with their 3,630 churches, 210,000 Sunday school scholars (and a church property valued at nearly $4,000,000), would have been impossible were it not for the trained and converted leaders who have gone out from the schools. We could not carry on the work of these churches and Sunday schools to-day were it not for the young life constantly pouring out of the schools into their ministry and membership. Ten millions of dollars make up the total cost for fifty years. Just about the price of one 3 battleship, or less than the money wasted in the European War in twenty-four hours. The Schools To-day Many inquiries come to the office of the Freed- men’s Aid Society for a detailed statement concern- ing each one of the schools, their location, buildings and grounds, teachers and students. Gammon Theological Seminary Gammon Theological Seminary, at Atlanta, Georgia, is named in honor of Rev. E. H. Gammon, late of the Rock River Conference, through whose liberality the buildings were all erected and the endowment provided. The school is located on a beautiful campus, formerly a pine forest, two and a half miles south of the center of the city of At- lanta. Its property consists of eighteen acres of ground, on which are seventeen buildings valued at $82,000, with an equipment of library' and furnish- ings worth $7,500. The institution has one sub- stantial main building for dormitory and recitation purposes, a library building, and a refectory or dining-room for its students, four professors' homes, and ten small cottages for married students. The attendance approximates annually one hundred, and graduates to the number of twenty or thirty are each year sent out into the various colored min- istries of the South. This is the largest, best en- dowed, and strongest theological seminary for the training of colored ministers anywffiere in the world. Its graduates, w'ho number five hundred, occupy leading positions — bishops, secretaries, dis- trict superintendents, and pastors — in our ow r n and other colored churches. 4 In connection with Gammon Theological Semi- nary, a department of missions is carried on by the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa, which was established in 1894 by the Rev. W. F. Stewart, an honored minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a personal friend of Mr. Gammon. The Secretary' of the Stewart Missionary Founda- tion for Africa holds the Chair of Missions in the Seminary, and a large amount of his time is devoted to developing interest in the evangelization of the continent of Africa among the colored churches of the entire South. Our nurse-training schools furnish a form of practi- cal training for which women of the Negro race have special adaptation Meharry Medical College Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, was established through the benevolence and fore- sight of the Meharry brothers, of Central Illinois. For almost half a century it has been furnishing 5 medical men, trained nurses, pharmacists, and dentists, sorely needed for the ministry of health, physical and moral, to the Negro race. Recently a Board of Trustees has been organized and a charter granted to this school, which up to that time was a department in Walden College. It has four excellent buildings, one of which is a hospital, the whole valued at SI 10,000, and con- taining an equipment whose value is over S18,000. At the present time it registers over 500 students, and has sent out more than 2,000 medical graduates, or more than half the present number of colored physicians in the United States. At the present time one of the greatest needs of the Negro race in the United States is properly qualified and trained physicians and nurses. While there is one physician for every' 500 of the white population of the United States, there is but one physician for each 4,000 of the colored people. Their poverty and inexperience crowd them into the most unsanitary' and disease-breeding sections of our cities and villages, so that the death rate for all diseases is two to four times as high among them as it is among the white population. Living in close contact with their white neighbors, it becomes not only a matter of humanity' and philanthropy, but also one of self-protection, that they’ shall be kept from the ravages of disease, and that the entire population shall be preserved from the menace of their unfortunate ignorance and inability to ward off disease. The work of this medical college, with its nurse training school and hospital, is absolutely essential to the physical and, indirectly', the moral and spiritual, salvation of the race. Its graduates are scattered throughout the villages and cities of the entire South. 6 Flint-Goodridge Hospital and Nurse Training School Flint-Goodridge Hospital and Nurse Training School is located on Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. Its buildings are almost opposite the Tulane Medical College, which is the leading white medical school of the South. Through the liberality of the late Mr. John D. Flint, of F'all River, Massa- chusetts, and his widow, Mrs. Flint, and her daugh- ter, Mrs. Ella Stafford, this institution has been carrying on the blessed ministry of healing in New Orleans and vicinity for many years. At the present time a new hospital of fifty beds is completed, at a cost of over $20,000. The total value of this prop- erty is $72,000. Nearly a million of colored people in New Orleans and vicinity are dependent upon this hospital for the care of such of their sick as cannot be treated in their own homes. Its class of nurses last year numbered twenty. Clark University Clark University, Atlanta, Georgia, is, under the new arrangement of the schools of the Freedmen’s Aid Society, to be its only university. It is lo- cated at Atlanta, side by side with Gammon Theo- logical Seminary, on a beautiful campus of 370 acres of what was at one time a pine forest. It has twelve buildings, valued at $330,000, with an addi- tional value of $8,000 in its equipment. Of the 370 acres of land, it is the hope of the Society that in time three hundred or more acres may become available for building purposes, and from the pro- ceeds the beginnings of an endowment may be secured. The attendance last year was 273, with 15 teachers. 7 Thayer Home, located on the same campus, is one of the most successful and prosperous of the model homes for colored girls carried on by the Woman’s Home Missionary Society. The influ- ence of this Home on the girls at Clark is felt to-day in scores of parsonages and hundreds of other homes where graduates of Clark and Thayer have gone. Training the hand as well as the mind Bennett College Bennett College, Greensboro, North Carolina, is located about one mile from the center of the cit \ on a beautiful site of nineteen acres. With its six buildings, the whole property is valued at $41,500, and has an equipment worth $3,000. In addition to the ordinary work of training teachers and Chris- tian leaders, the school grounds furnish excellent opportunity for agricultural instruction. The at- tendance is 368, with 14 teachers. 8 Kent Home, with its new and attractive brick building, occupies a corner lot adjoining Bennett College. It is neat, clean, and up-to-date in all of its appointments. A large number of the girl stu- dents in Bennett live here, and are trained in all the domestic arts. No greater good can be done for the colored people at the present time than the training of the homemakers of the future. This is admirably done at Kent Home. Claflin College Claflin College, at Orangeburg, South Carolina, is the largest industrial and educational center among the schools of the Freedmen's Aid Society. It is located in the midst of one of the blackest of the black l>elts of the South, having a colored con- stituency which takes in the whole State of South Carolina and much outside. The South Carolina is the largest of our colored Conferences, and its success is almost wholly attributed to the work of the graduates of Claflin. A list of its district super- intendents and the occupants of its principal charges, with the leading colored lawyers, physi- cians, and business men of that whole section, would almost be a list of the graduates and former stu- dents of this school. Its grounds contain sixty acres in and around the buildings, with a 160-acre farm two or three miles in the country. Here the principal industrial shops of the Freedmen's Aid Society are located, where, in its twenty-six build- ings, Clallin teaches not only literary subjects, but practically all trades and industries, including agri- culture. The graduates of its industrial and tech- nical departments occupy high positions as teachers in other schools and in the building trades and industries everywhere throughout the South. The 9 property is worth $250,000, with an equipment valued at $15,000. Its student body numbers 542, with 37 teachers. Mr. S. H. Tingley, of Providence, Rhode Island, has been for years a benefactor of this college. It was through his liberality that the present Tingley Memorial Hall, which is the principal building on the grounds, was erected at a cost of over $50,000. These young women carry forth among their people the example of ennobled Christian womanhood Samuel Huston College Samuel Huston College is located in Austin, the capital city of Texas, about five blocks east of the beautiful capitol building. Here the Society has a main campus of about six acres, with an additional eight and a half acres just outside the city limits, the latter being used for agricultural training. On the campus in the city there are nine comparatively new buildings, with their equipment, valued at 10 S78,(KX). The whole of Southwestern Texas is con- tributary to this school, and here are trained the leaders of that vast Western Texas empire. The attendance is 314, with 23 teachers. Mr. E. T. Burrowes, of Portland, Maine, has taken special interest in this school, having visited it on two or three occasions, and noting the wonder- ful work that it is accomplishing, has furnished the funds necessary for the erection of one of its main buildings. On the adjoining lot is the Eliza Dee Home of the Woman’s Home. Missionary Society, a new building for which is being erected. The godly white women, who have gone into the South as superintendents of this and other Homes like it, are doing the largest service to the colored people through the training that they are giving in this and other Homes to the girls taking studies in the schools of the Freedinen’s Aid Society. Morgan College Morgan College is located in the city of Balti- more, Maryland, and has for its colored constit- uency the Washington and Delaware Conferences. In addition, it is supported by and has the special care of the Baltimore and Wilmington Conferences, thus combining the wisdom and financial backing of two of our strongest white Conferences and two of our ablest and best colored Conferences. It has a property in the city of Baltimore valued at §35,000, with an equipment of §6,500. It has nine teachers and one hundred and twenty-eight students. It does high-grade collegiate and academic work, and aims at quality rather than quantity. This insti- tution has two affiliated schools. 11 Princess Anne Academy One of these is Princess Anne Academy, at Prin- cess Anne, Maryland, where the school owns a farm of 118 acres, with four buildings thereon, all of which is valued at $15,000. This institution has 12 teachers and on its enrollment 133 students. It not only sends its graduates to Morgan College, but large numbers of them go out in the surrounding district as school teachers and Christian leaders. Virginia Collegiate Institute Virginia Collegiate and Industrial Institute is the other school affiliated with Morgan. It is located at Lynchburg, Virginia, on a fifteen-acre tract, with one main building, the whole valued at $35,000. Five teachers and ninety-two students constitute the school, whose influence and power for good have shown themselves in all our churches through- out this territory. Our two colored Conferences, Delaware and Washington, contain some of the strongest men in our colored membership, and Morgan College, with its affiliated schools, is responsible for the strength of these two Conferences. A normal class at one of our schools New Orleans College New Orleans College is located on two and a quarter beautiful city blocks, making a campus of about three acres, out on St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana, not far from Tulane University, which is the principal university for white people in the South. The school has eight buildings, whose value, in addition to the real estate, amounts to S135.000. Over 600,000 colored people in Louisiana and nearby States are served by this school. It has 21 teachers, and its students number over 500. On one of the lots is located the beautiful Peck Home of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society, which shelters and mothers fifty or sixty girls, who take domestic science work in the Home and are pupils in New Orleans College. This institution is cramped for room, and ad- joining property is immensely expensive. Never- theless, it is doing a magnificent work for the city and the whole of the Louisiana Conference. Rust College Rust College, Holly Springs, Mississippi, has for years held a leading place in the educational affairs of the State of Mississippi, and has been one of the principal schools of the Freedmen’s Aid Society. It is located in the beautiful city above named in Northern Mississippi, a place made famous in war times as one of the headquarters of General Grant. It has sixty acres of ground admirably adapted to agriculture and landscape gardening. The value of the land, with nine buildings, is $70,000, with $8,000 additional for equipment. This school is named after Rev. R. S. Rust, D.D., the first, and for many years the only, corresponding secretary of 13 the Freedmen's Aid Society. It has 19 teachers and 223 students. This institution serves one of the strongest colored Conferences of our church, the Upper Mississippi. The leaders of our forces in that section are almost to a man and woman graduates of Rust. Side by side with Rust College is carried on Elizabeth L. Rust Home, where a large number of girls who take literary work in the school are cared for and trained under the direction of Christian women, whose influence for right living upon these girls is incalculable. At Rust College. Holly Springs. Miss., one of the chief industries is the manufacture of mission furniture George R. Smith College George R. Smith College, at Sedalia, Missouri, is named after one of the Union generals of the war, a prominent citizen of the State of Missouri. Its twenty-four acres of beautiful Missouri land in the edge of Sedalia was the gift of the two daughters of General George R. Smith, Mrs. G. C. McLaughlin and Mrs. Sarah E. Cotton, the latter of whom con- 14 tinues an honored and respected resident of Sedalia. The one main building, with the land adjoining, constitute a property worth S37.000. The school has 11 teachers and 76 students. The Central Missouri and Lincoln Conferences constitute the territory of George R. Smith College. While the State of Missouri has recognized the educational needs of its colored people and is doing vastly more for them than the States farther south, yet if we are to have ministers and Christian leaders for our churches and Sunday schools in the above two Conferences, George R. Smith must continue to educate and train them. Philander Smith College Philander Smith College, at Little Rock, Ar- kansas, is located in a thickly-settled colored sec- tion of the city of Little Rock. It has nine city lots, constituting about two acres, with four buildings, one of which, Webb Hall, a dormitory for girls, has just been finished. The whole State of Arkansas, with parts of adjacent States, constitute the ter- ritory of this school. More than half of the colored teachers in the State of Arkansas are graduates of this institution. It has 25 teachers and 423 stu- dents. The value of its property is §50,000. One of the largest of the Woman’s Home Mis- sionary Society’s model Homes, the Adeline Smith Home, is across the corner from Philander Smith College. Here for many years have been trained and directed the minds and hearts of many young girls, who have been sent out to be influences for righteousness and examples of all that is best and purest in domestic life in the villages and cities of Arkansas. 15 Walden College Walden College, at Nashville, Tennessee, is located in the very heart of one of the colored sec- tions of the city, side by side with Meharry Medical College, and for many years has been a liberal feeder to that institution. The Tennessee and Lex- ington Conferences constitute the patronizing ter- ritory of Walden. It has 12 teachers and a student body of 144. Recently great changes have taken place in the property of this school. A new class- room building and library, the \\ hetstone Memorial, has been erected at a cost of over $25,000. All of the old, dilapidated small buildings on the campus have been removed and the whole place rehabili- tated. The foundation for a new girls’ dormitory is up and awaiting the funds with which to com- plete it. The present value of the property is $70,000. A new interest is being taken in this school by its alumni, and they propose in the near future to raise funds with which to complete the dormitory. The library of the late Bishop Walden was by him left to this school, and is now installed in one of the beautiful rooms of the Whetstone Memorial Building. It is to be used in connection with the Bible Training School, to be a part of the work of Walden. Wiley College Wiley College is located at Marshall, in Northern Texas, and has for its constituency the Texas Con- ference with its thousands of prosperous and well- to-do colored people. There is no part of the country where the colored man has a better chance than in Texas, and he is evidently taking advantage of his opportunities. On a beautiful eminence in 16 the outskirts of Marshall the fourteen handsome buildings of this school prominently loom up before every visitor to the city. The whole property is valued at 8190,000, with 88,000 additional for equipment. Here is one of the places where Mr. Andrew Carnegie saw fit to make a gift of $10,000 for a library. This school is one of the few in the South whose graduates are entitled to teachers’ certificates without examination in nearly all of the States. No wonder that our Texas colored Methodists are proud of Wiley and send their chil- dren there to be educated. The future of that whole territory is wrapped up in the work of this college. The student body numbers 386, with 24 teachers. King Home is across the street from the campus. Its girls take their literary studies in Wiley, but they live as a model family under the direction of Christian women, and are taught all the domestic arts and sciences, in addition to their other school work, so that when they go out among their people they are qualified to do the highest kind of social service in the cities and villages where they reside. Central Alabama Institute Central Alabama Institute, at Mason City, a suburb of Birmingham, is situated in a beautiful pine forest of forty acres, on which are six main buildings, the whole valued at 840,000. This is more nearly a family school than any other of our institutions. The President and his good wife have here a colony of 11 teachers and 145 students, gathered from the city of Birmingham and Alabama in general, in a little suburb or extension of the city of Birmingham, all to themselves, where they are carefully fathering and mothering, as well as cd- 17 ucating these boys and girls in all the domestic industries, agriculture, gardening, and preparation for school teaching and other employments among their own people. No greater work is being done anywhere, and none will tell in larger results than the character-forming that is here carried on by this good president and his wife. Cookman Institute Cookman Institute, at Jacksonville, Florida, is located in a Negro settlement on the east side of the city, on a tract of seven acres, with three main buildings, all valued at 860,000. The State of Florida and some sections of Southern Georgia send 407 students to this institution, where there are fifteen teachers. The Florida Conference and South Florida Mission are our colored Conferences con- tributing to the school. In addition, our white Gulf Conference, by formal vote, desired to have its contributions to the Freedmen's Aid Society made use of in carrying on the work of Cookman Institute. Gilbert Industrial Institute Gilbert Industrial Institute, at Baldwin, Lou- isiana, one hundred and twenty miles west of New Orleans, on the Southern Railway, located on the banks of the Bayou Teche, made famous by Long- fellow’s “Evangeline,” is a combination of school and orphanage. It is affiliated with New Orleans College; has 11 teachers and 194 students. A farm of eleven hundred acres, all but three hundred and fifty of which is swamp, is connected with this school and orphanage, the proceeds of which go toward the support of both institutions. 18 The value of this land, with the fourteen buildings, is estimated to be $65,000. A magnificent oppor- tunity is here presented for the building up of an industrial and agricultural institution, waiting only for the money with which to develop its possi- bilities. Its prosperity and endowment are the re- sult of the prophetic vision, tireless industry', and successful administration of Rev'. W. D. Godman, for years its president. His daughter, Miss Inez A. Godman, continues her interest in the future de- velopment of the school. Haven Institute Haven Institute, at Meridian, Mississippi, fur- nishes ministers and Christian leaders to the Mis- sissippi Conference, in the very heart of the Southern black belt. The site of the school is inside the city limits, on three acres of ground, which, with three buildings, makes a property valuation of $35,000. In connection with the work of the school the city of Meridian has built a public library on one corner of the campus, to be used jointly by the colored people of Meridian and the school. It constitutes a part of the school equipment. The attendance of students is 322, and nine teachers assist the presi- dent in training his boys and girls. The school is greatly cramped for room, both in grounds and buildings. By formal vote of the Board of Man- agers of the Freedmen’s Aid Society, the name of this school was recently' changed from Meridian Institute to Haven Institute, thus continuing the honored name of Gilbert Haven in connection with one of the schools of the Freedmen’s Aid Society. 19 There is always a market for the brooms made at Morristow n College Morristown Normal and Industrial College Morristown Normal and Industrial College is located on a high eminence on the east side of the city of Morristown, Tennessee. Its seven buildings, with the fifty-acre campus on which they stand, are valued at over $100,000, and recently, through a gift of S19.500 from a friend, the president has been enabled to pur- chase a 300-acre farm near by, where the begin- nings of agricultural training are being made, and on which he expects to develop a department of agriculture worthy of any for colored people in 20 the South. The industrial, domestic science, and normal departments have from the beginning been emphasized at Morristown. A foundry', machine shop, and broom factory constitute the leading in- dustries taught here. It has twenty teachers and 361 students. On the same ground is located the New Jersey Home of the Woman's Home Missionary Society, which ably supplements the work of the larger in- stitution by training the girls in domestic science, and giving them the higher and broader vision and the importance of the Christian home in the de- velopment of the race. The twelve wise men who organized the Freed- men's Aid Society fifty years ago have all gone to their eternal home, but the work which they began goes on, and will go on forever. Heaven must be the more enjoyable to them as they see “what God hath wrought” through their plans. They were: Bishop Davis W. Clark; John M. Walden, after- ward Bishop; John M. Reid, afterward Missionary Secretary; Richard S. Rust; Adam Poe; Luke Hitchcock; Benjamin F. Crary; Robert Allyn; J. R. Stillwell; J. F. Larkin; Judge Grant Goodrich, and Thomas M. Eddy, afterward Missionary Secretary. What God Hath Wrought for the Negro Race in America in Fifty Years Half a century ago the Negro was a chattel without education, property, or opportunity of any sort. Four millions of him then, ten millions now, but what a wonderful contrast between the condi- tion of the ten millions of to-day and the four millions of fifty years ago. Read both sides of this parallel and see what has been accomplished through fifty years of Christian training. 21 Population, census 1860: Slaves, 3,953,760; Free, 487,970; total 4,441,730 Illiteracy 90% Value of property, estimated at $1,200,000 N umber of colleges and universities 1 Number of college graduates, estimated at 30 Number of practicing physicians and pharma- cists 0 Number of lawyers 0 Number of banks operated by Negroes 0 Number of Negro towns 0 Number of newspapers 1 Number of churches owned, estimated at 400 Value of church property $500,000 Membership of Negro churches, estimated at. . . 40,000 Number of children in schools, estimated at . . 25,000 Total Negro population (United States), 1910. . . 9,828,294 Homes owned by Negroes 500,000 Churches owned by Negroes 31,393 Church membership 3,207,305 Sunday schools 24,380 Sunday school scholars 1,448,570 Illiteracy, census 1910 30.5% Value of property, estimated at $1,000,000,000 Number of farms owned 250,000 Value of church property S65 ,000,000 Number of college and university graduates. . . 8,000 Professional men 75,000 Number of practicing physicians, estimated at. . 3,500 Number of practicing lawyers 1,500 Number of business men, estimated at 50,000 Number of children in schools 2,000,000 Number of Negro towns 50 Number of Negro teachers 30.000 Land ov'ned by Negroes 20.000,000 acres, or 31,000 square miles. Drug stores 300 General stores and other industrial enterprises. . 20,000 Newspapers and periodicals 398 Hospital and nurse training schools 61 Banks owned by Negroes 72 Insurance companies 100 66.2 per cent of all Negroes in the United States, ten years of age or over, are engaged in gain- ful occupations. Property owned by Negro secret societies $3,000,000 Capital stock Negro banks $2,000,000 Annual business done by Negro banks $20,000,000 22 The Freedmen’s Aid Society has contributed a large share of this magnificent result through its twenty-one schools. During that time it has sent out more than 200,000 young people, who received the broader and higher outlook from its Christian teachers. Notwithstanding the above magnificent results, the present need of the Negro is still great. In order that the results already achieved may not be lost and that ultimate success may crown the efforts of the schools and churches, the work must be carried on with greater enthusiasm and energy' and at larger cost than ever before. Thousands of young people are knocking at the doors of our in- stitutions pleading for that preparation of mind and heart that will fit them to help the race still onward and upward into the larger life of Christian man- hood and womanhood, which is the heritage of every child of God. Educated ministers, teachers and Christian leaders are sorely needed among the colored people in all sections of the South. The public schools are languishing for lack of properly trained teachers, and the village and country churches cry aloud for young men and women sufficiently educated to teach in the Sunday schools and lead the better example of Christian helpful- ness before the masses that are still ignorant and backward and in need of training in the simpler elements of moral manhood and womanhood. The work already accomplished in fifty years warrants the assurance that if continued, the progress in the next half century will give to this race a further advance on the road which they have been so rapidly traveling since their emancipation. For further information, write the Correspond- ing Secretaries, 222 West Fourth Street, Cincin- nati, Ohio. 23 BEQUESTS and devises Persons disposed to make bequests to the Society by will are requested to observe the following form: I give and bequeath to “ The Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church,” a corporation under the laws of the State of Ohio, the sum of $ and receipt of the Treasurer thereof shall be a sufficient dis- charge to my executors for the same.