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The Hospital of Invc-rness. 345
successors to keep separate and distinct accounts of the
Poors' Fund, Mackintosh's Mortification, the Library Fund,
and the cash drawn from the Weyhouse and Hospital yard,
allotted for keeping the Hospital fabrick in repair, and not to
exceed the interest of each Fund.
The other Act of Session for the sum of ^^64 8s od, was
for debt contracted in this way. On the translation of the
Rc\-. \Vm. Stuart in 1 720, from the Signature or Third
Charge to the First, there was a strong desire to have the
latter filled by the Rev. Alex. Macbean, minister of
Douglas, and Commissioners were appointed to prosecute
the call. The Session voted a credit to meet part of their
expenses, upon the strength of which £2"^ was borrowed by
the Commissioners and others, from Wm. Mackintosh, sen.
on a bond in 1720. In course of time this Wm. Mackintosh
mortified £2^, to the Hospital Treasurer, and this bond
was assigned to him in satisfaction thereof The Com-
missioners, or some of them, and of their fellow borrowers,
were pressed for payment of principal and interest, which
by 1752, being still unpaid, amounted to £6\ 8s od, and, on
the report of the Committee, the Session acknowledged
their obligation to pay it to the Hospital Treasurer, and
thus relieved the representatives of the Commissioners.
This was agreed to on 28th January, 1752, and in 1766 it
was struck off as a bad debt of the Hospital's.
Before proceeding to the second period of Bailie Andrew
Murray's Treasurership, some accounts may be given of the
action raised by George Baillie of Leys.
By the year 1756 the Hospital had for a good many
years had some benefit from the half coble's fishing in the
Ness, and from the lands granted by James Roy Dunbar as
security for Provost Dunbar's mortification, though the
rents of both were by no means regularly paid.
The value of salmon fishings, however, had now "begun
to increase, and Provost Hossack reported to a meeting of
Session on 7th September, 1756, that "A gentleman from
Aberdeen and two English gentlemen had come to town