The book Arran; - Cook Clan

THE CHURCH AFTER THE REFORMATION 159
choyse the other, and the Session to be satisfied with him before he
intromitt with the School.
At last in 1802 came an Act which put the business of
education upon a sounder and more generous footing, after
generations of complaints from grossly underpaid teachers.
Of the result in Kilbride we have an account left, but it may
be assured that it was parallel to what was done in Kilmorie.
KiLMORY Kirk, 2 Oct. 1804
Met here this day.
James Lament Esq. of Knockdow, Factor to his Grace the Duke
of Hamilton on his Grace's Estate in Arran, and Revd. Neil MacBride,
Minister of Kilmory parish and proceeded to consider the Act of
Parliament anent the settlement of Parochial Schoolmasters, and
considering the extent of this parish and population thereof, proceeded
according to the eleventh section of the Act, and in all time
coming allow the Schoolmasters, to be paid as follows, to the
Schoolmaster at Kilmory twelve pounds Six shillings & Eight pence
Sterling, to the Schoolmaster at Shisken Nine pounds Six shillings
& Eight pence Sterling, to the Schoolmaster at Lochranza four
pound Sterling, to the Schoolmaster at Imachar four pounds Sterling,
and to the Schoolmaster at Drumlabarra Mill four pounds Sterling j
and to be paid quarterly at the following rates, for reading English
alone two shillings Sterling, for reading English and writing two
shillings & Sixpence Sterling, for writing and Arithmetic, three
shillings and Sixpence Sterling, for book-keeping one pound Sterling,
for Navigation one pound ten Shillings sterling, for teaching Latin
five shillings Sterling. That Archibald M'Kenzie is continued as a
teacher at Kilmory pro tempore, but that no teacher in future shall
be eligible for Kilmory but one who is qualified to teach latin, and
that the whole teachers in the above districts shall teach the Gaelic
Language and that the Schoolmaster at Kilmory shall also be qualified
to teach Church Musick ;
and as it has been a custom with the School-
masters in this parish to teach two quarters of the year only, it is
hereby ordained that they are not to vacate their School at any time
of the year except in harvest, and that not exceeding Six weeks, and