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The Hospital of Inverness. 341
Bank of Scotland, the 20th April, 1762, a ^^5 per cent.
Interest to Whitsunday, 1763, is £26 15s 7d, but afterwards
would only give 4 per cent. The loth October, 1763, Jas.
Houstoune, merchant, received ^100 on his Heritable Bond
at interest from the said date. The interest paid by the
Bank to 20th March, 1764, £\^ i8s, when Robert Munro,
merchant, received by the Session's appointment ;^400 on
his heritable bond to bear interest from the said 20th
March, 1764, and the said Robert Munro paid a year's
interest, ;(f20 to 20th March, 1765."
The amount of principal entered in first column is ;i{^500,
and of interest entered in second column, is £6\ 13s 7d.
Further particulars of this transaction will be found further
on.
After this the only lands left to the Hospital Fund
proper were those of Broadstone and Crotterton.
Among the items entered in his discharge we find, piid
to the pensioners on Hospital Fund and to particular
objects p. receipts, ;^i 121 7s 3i^d. The Agent's account,
in defending the process raised by George Baillie of Leys
^56 los 6d :
and
paid the Agent in the process against
Arthur Robertson of Inches, for the debt due to the
Hospital, ;^ 1 17 OS 2d ; and paid bursars on the Laird of
Mackintosh's mortification p. receipts, ^^"94 15s lod.
His first accounts were then examined by a Com-
mittee, passed by the Session, and he was duly thanked.
The Session re-appointed him as Hospital Treasurer, 22nd
April, 1766, after granting him a discharge for his former
accounts, and " recommended him to be diligent in recover-
ing interest due, in order to repay him the balance of cash
he has laid out on the necessary affairs of the Hospital."
The Session at the same time considered a seeond
report of the same Committee, relative to bad debts : which
stated that there were " in their judgement a vast number
of bad debts, amounting to -^546 los 4>^d stg., and that
by continuing them in their books, every member
of any other, that looks at the total will be ready to