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The Highland Monthly.
time coming, for maintaining, decoring, and repairing of the
Hospital house, and also obliged themselves and their fore-
saids ever thereafter, that, if the rent of the said house and
yeard should fall short, to maintain, repair, and decore the
said building, that then the charge for doing thereof should
be taken out of the Hospital stock or annual rent thereof,
whereby the said Hospital may be kept in as good condi-
tion as it now is, which is hereby declared to be sufficiently
sclated and watertight, and all the windows cased with
oak." Then follows the discharge of Provost Dunbar for
all his intromissions as Hospital Treasurer, which is signed
by John Cuthbert, Provost ; Fin. Fraser, Bailie ; J.
Bailie ; Wm. Duff, Bailie Hugh Robertson, Bailie ; ;
Rose,
Robt.
Barbour, Dean of Guild ; Wm. Duff, Treasurer ; James
Dunbar, one of the Elders ; David Fouller, one of the
Elders ; John Hepburn, one of the Elders ; John
tosh, one of the Session ; Wm.
Mackin-
Thomson, one of the
Sessioners James Dunb ir, one of the Sessioners ; Robt.
;
Ross, one of the Sessioners ; J. Dunbar, Sessioner ; Wm.
Baillie, one of the Elders ; Wm. Paterson, one of the
"Session; Mr Gilbert Marshall, minister at Inverness; Mr
• Angus M'Bain, minister at Inverness.
The above resolution clearly shows that the donor's
intention was understood at the time he made over the
building, to be that the two upper stories were to be
•occupied by deserving poor, placed therein by the Session,
and that any of the name of Dunbar, if requiring it, should
be preferred. It is also evident that one of his mortifications
• of 2000 merks was made with the object that the interest
should be applied for the maintenance of the persons so
placed therein. It has been shown that very little attention
was paid to these wishes for a good many years.
[to be co.ntinued.]