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^^^ Highland Monthly.
existing or which may hereafter arise, and " as the amount
now paid to the Pensioners, ;^I02 13s 4, is far above the
yearly return of interest, the Capital Stock must greatly
suffer, and at last be much impaired and reduced if the
Kirk Session does not advert to lessen the number of
Pensioners. This remark bears heavy on the poor, the
Committee is sorry for it, but better to turn half water
than drown, and to add the greater weight to what is in
this article remarked the Committee find that during the
administration of the predecessor of the present Treasurer
the amount of cash to yearly Pensioners was no more than
;^44, but it amounts now to nearly three times that sum,
by which means the Fund is at this time indebted to the
present Treasurer ;^35 5 9 5^d."
The Kirk Session resolved accordingly.
As to the Act of Kirk Session, dated 12th November
175 1, and interest due from Martinmas of that year, for the
principal sum of £^^^ 17s 473d, the Committee were of
opinion that as this debt was contracted for repairing the
Churches of Inverness, the Reparation Fund should make
payment of said sum to the Hospital Treasurer, in which
the Session had on the date abov^e mentioned declared
themselves and their successors in office to be indebted
to Provost Hossack, then Hospital Treasurer. This sum
seems to have been the balance of a larger sum, principal
and interest, advanced for repairs by a former Kirk Trea-
surer in or about 1723.
The Session appointed the Treasurer on Diribught to
pay the above sum to the Hospital Treasurer out of the
hundred pounds Scots yearly fund for repairing the
Churches ; but apparently it was not done for a long time.
It continued to apppear in the accounts, and was finally
paid up with interest, 12th February, 1770.— Vide,
Particular Report of a Commattee, 21st December, 1779.
The Session unanimously thanked the Committee for
their care and attention given to the Hospital affairs :
lastly, they recommended the present Treasurer and his