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7he Hiohla7id Monthly.
sum of £200, part of Mr Raining's bequest, for a school
in the Highlands, was laid before the Session, and referred
to the Committee on the Hospital accounts. Negotiations
between the Society and the Kirk Session and Town
Council followed ; and an endeavour was made by the
people of Easter Ross to get the school planted at Tain.
Very soon afterwards, on 30th November, in same year,
the Session had before them a letter from the Secretary of
the S.P.C.K., showing that it was proposed to settle Mr
Raining's School at Inverness upon the terms offered by
the town and Session in their correspondence with that
Society for that effect, and recorded that " they were well
satisfied." Further, " the Session delivered the said letter
to the Magistrates, in order to prepare what is proper for
them on the part of the town in order to the settlement of
the said school."
The Session minutes show further negotiations, and on
8th March, 1726, a letter from the Secretary S.P.CK. was
read, enclosing extract from minutes of that Society showing
inter alia that they had written to the Magistrates acquaint-
ing them that the ;!^200 referred to had not yet been paid,
and the new school could not be proceeded with, but that
they "accepted of the offer made of an house in the interim
for accommodation of the schoolmaster and scholars, and
were content upon the other encouragements proposed to
lake a trial how the said school will prosper in their towns,
and when the mortified money for building of a school
comes in, they will then consider of the purchase either of
the ground for building, or house already built." The same
extract showed that the Society had received a reply from
the Rev, Mr Macbean, minister at Inverness, bearing that
the resolution of the Society had been intimated to the
Town Council and Kirk Session, and gave them much
satisfaction ; and, further, that the Society remitted to their
Committee to consider the scroll sent from the Kirk
Session of Inverness, and to give their opinion thereanent