The Highland monthly - National Library of Scotland

The Hospital of Inverness. 405
Payments of ministers' stipends, cesses,
reparation of the Hospital, books bought
for library, salaries to librarj'-keeper, law-
processes, bursars on Laird of Mackin-
tosh's Mortification, charities to particular
objects, payments to pensioners, allow-
ance to Treasurer, balance on previous
account paid to Treasurer ... ... 1526 4 8^
;^3687 16 II
Among the details of the money applied are " paid for
reparations to the Hospital, £2 5s /d ; for books to the
library and librarian's salary, ^^"30 4s gd ;
£6 i/s 6d ;
to kirk officers
to pensioners on Hospital funds, ^^^196 9S4^d;
for a book for inserting the Hospital accounts, 7s 3d ;
balance due to Treasurer paid, ;^355 pd 5^4^d ;
to him on do., ;^48 7s 8d ;
interest due
and interest on ^100 allowed in
the Treasurer's hands for prompt payment to pensioners
from Rood Quarter, 1766, to Candlemas, 1769, ^13 15s od."
His accounts were duly examined by a Committee, and
passed with the usual recommendation, that the thanks of
the Session should be accorded to him, and that he should
get a full discharge. This was granted. The Committee
also gave in their remarks upon his accounts. They recommended
that the " dubious debts " referred to above,
amounting to ^^"19 i8s o^^d, should be struck off: they
pointed out that after deducting that portion of the capital,
" which cannot be said to belong properly to the poor,"
amounting to ;!^548 17s 9.^d, " and the debts due by Castle-
hill, Inches, and Bailie Gordon's heir, amounting to ^^392
5s ii|d, from which no interest can be expected for some
time," " the balance remaining from which interest can be
expected to be paid regularly is ;^I220 8s 53^d." They
again point out that the payments to pensioners must be
reduced, by lessening their number when any of them are
removed by death, and that for the present only ;^50 per
annum would be available to pay them, and that the annual
payments must by degrees be reduced to this sum.