relinquishment, or otherwise,
adequate power to the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of
Philadelphia, or to directors or others by them appointed, to
enforce, in relation to each orphan, every proper restraint, and to
prevent relations or others from interfering with or withdrawing
such orphan from the institution."

By the sixth article, or direction, preference is to be given, first, to
orphans born in Philadelphia; second, to those born in other parts of
Pennsylvania; third, to those born in the city of New York; and, lastly,
to those born in the city of New Orleans.

By the seventh article, it is declared, that the orphans shall be
lodged, fed, and clothed in the college; that they shall be instructed
in the various branches of a sound education, comprehending reading,
writing, grammar, arithmetic, geography, navigation, surveying,
practical mathematics, astronomy, natural, chemical, and experimental
philosophy, and the French and Spanish languages, and such other
learning and science as the capacities of the scholars may merit or
want. The Greek and Latin languages are not forbidden, but are not
recommended.

By the ninth article it is declared, that the boys shall remain in the
college till they arrive at between fourteen and eighteen years of age,
when they shall be bound out by the city government to suitable
occupations, such as agriculture, navigation, and the mechanical trades.

The testator proceeds to say, that he necessarily leaves many details to
the city government; and then adds, "There are, however, some
restrictions which I consider it my duty to prescribe, and to be,
amongst others, conditions on which my bequest for said college is made,
and to be enjoyed."

The second of these restrictions is in the following words:--

"Secondly. I enjoin and require _that no ecclesiastic, missionary,
or minister, of any sect whatever, shall ever hold or exercise any
station or duty whatever in the said college; nor shall any such
person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visitor, within
the premises appropriated to the purposes of the said college_.

"In making this restriction, I do not mean to cast any reflection
upon any sect or person whatsoever; but, as there is such a
diversity of opinion amongst them, I desire to keep the tender
minds of the orphans who are to derive advantage from this bequest
free from the excitement wh