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342 The Highland Monthly.
flatter themselves that the Capital Stock is very high,
therefore, that we may not impose on ourselves or others,
the Committee have in a separate sheet drawn out a list of
those debts which may be reckon'd irrecoverable, with
which the Kirk Session may do as they in their wisdom
shall think fit."
The Session approved of the Report, judged these debts
to be irrecoverable, and decided that they should not be
included in the Treasurer's Charge, and that the list of bad
debts should be recorded in the Kirk Session Register, and
in the particular Register of the Hospital, " that at one
view it may appear what losses were instained on Provost
Dunbar's Mortificatian and others, though the Pensioners
on Provost Dunbar's Mortification were duely and regularly
paid from the commencement of it."
The bad debts include a balance due by James Roy
Dunbar for annual rents and expenses, ^42 5s 2^d ;
a
debt by tenants of the river fishings, £^0 i6s lod ; a debt
by tenants on Gallow Muir, £21 6s ly^^, i^45 los 3^2d,
;^20 15s 5^d, and ;i^i 15s i|^d, making in all £\%/\, 9s i d.
Also an Act and Bond of the Kirk Session of Inverness
being a burden upon the weekly collections, ^64 8s od ;
receipt for cash given to Thomas Alves (Hospital Treasurer)
to defend a Hospital process, ;^io ; debts transmitted by
Provost Maclean (Hospital Treasurer) to Bailie Gilbert
Gordon, ^^"56 us 6d ; rents of weyhouse ^^14, and various
Bonds from different persons (varying in amount from
£(^ 3s 4d to £\-zZ), ;^203 9d ofd, and a balance of rent due
on Broadstone and expenses £\'}^ 12s 8^d. This gives a
total of ^^546
I OS 4d.
In addition to this there is mentioned, " the expense of
a process raised by George Baillie of Leyes against the
Hospital, though this article is not a debt properly, yet it
is added here to show the losses on Provost Dunbar's
Mortification £^6 los 6^d, which, added to ^184 9s i^d,
makes the total loses on the latter ^^240 19s 7^d.