a) I may be wrong. I do not ask that you adopt my opinion. It may be helpful to you to consider it.

b) If the Trust were to be terminated and I were a Trustee, I would

b1) donate its assets (if any), to a charitable institution, such as the Powers School, Amnesty International, etc.

b2) secure the notarized resignation of my co-trustee and

b3) simultaneously execute a notarized resigation of my own.

b4)  then either do nothing more or

b5) execute and file the annual federal and state reports documenting the fact that the Trust no longer had trustees and therefore no longer existed.

The legal bases  of this procedure are as follow:

b6) both of the resigning Trustees had the unconditional right to resign.

b7) neither of the resigning Trustees had a legal obligation to appoint a successor Trustee precedent to the resignation.

b8) in the absence of Trustees the Trust is extinguished.

b9) the only civil (and possibly criminal) liability would accrue to any person, ex-trustee or other, who would accept and hold assets of the extinct Trust which were improperly retained inspite of b1)

c) Because the phrase "the administration of this trust" is inherently ambiguous, the questions

c1) May recruiting, assembling, organizing, conducting a music orchestra properly be deemed "services rendered in the administration of this trust"?  and

c2) May giving trumpet lessons to (indigent) students properly be deemed "services rendered in the administration of this trust"?

cannot be answered reliably either by a lawyer or in anticipation of a judges decision.

c3) Inasmuch as in all of the 14 judicial decisions which I have obtained in the past 63 years, the adjudicating officers have ignored either the facts or the law or both, even when they decided in my favor, I conclude that many prognostic interpretations of the law are inherently unreliable.

d) Considering the uncertainty of the law, I would proceed instrumentally rather than dogmatically.

d1) I would postpone all expenditures from the Trust until it had accumulated a substantial amount of capital.

d2) Initially I would organize concerts in Nathaniel's name.

d3) At concerts for which no tickets were sold, I would suggest donations to the Camelot Music Trust. It is standard practice e.g.  at funerals "In lieu of flowers (tax exempt) donations may be made to the Camelot Music Trust."

d4) Once a regular schedule of concerts had been established, especially if at a venue with strong local municipal endorsement such as the Belmont Senior Center, I would transfer auspices of these concerts to the Camelot Music Society and start remunerating non-family musicians with Trust funds as available.

d5) Finally I would start paying Nathaniel an initially very modest honorarium out of Trust funds, keeping meticulous records of Nathaniels services and of all Trust receipts and disbursements.

d6) As an addendum to both the annually required State and Federal reports, I would submit the Trust's detailed financial records.

d7) If the disbursements to Nathaniel were challenged, I would promptly refund them to the Trust. Under those circumstances the risk of criminal charges seems to me very low; I would accept this risk as I would accept the risk of being struck by lightning.

d8) In the absence of objections from the authorities I would in subsequent years remunerate Nathaniel from the Trust in median amounts paid to orchestra managers and conductors in Massachusetts.