The Highland monthly - National Library of Scotland

4o6 The llif^/iland Monthly.
Strange to sa}-, the}- make no remarks on the Treasurer's
disregard of his instructions to keep the account of the
Hospital fund for the poor distinct.
The Session approved of their report and remarks,
granted Bailie Andrew Murray his discharge, and appointed
Mr W. Murray as his successor. During Andrew Murray's
time the Session paid considerable attention to the affairs
of the Hospital : they appointed a committee to enquire
into the interest due on Dr Eraser's mortification, which
: another com-
reported on 12th and 19th December, 1752
mittee to revise George Duncan's mortification, and
considered both reports : also appointed a committee to
enquire into the debts due to the Hospital in 1753, besides
minutely examining and considering reports on the
Treasurer's accounts, and giving him precise directions :
but in spite of all their care the Hospital Stock was
decreasing.
They authorise the purchase of books for the Library to
of 8s iid for a door to
amount of i^20 in 1753 : payment
the Writing School in the Hospital in 1756: payment of
£6 6s to David Taylor on account of the spire of the
Hospital in 1758
: they grant the petition of Alex. Munro,
schoolmaster, " that the flat above the Library may be
allowed him for the instruction of such children as would
attend him," although this flat was intended for poor to be
placed therein by the Session : they authorise the reparation
of the loft above the Writing School, as the principal beam
supporting it was broken, at an estimated cost of £j or £^
in 1763 ; and the raising of the lofts abov-e the Library and
Writing School two feet higher, and direct that good
sufficient timber be used in the reparation, also in 1763 :
and payment of i6s to two masons for raising the joist
above the Writing School.
|They record that the Rev. Alex. Mackenzie, son of the
Rev. Hector Mackenzie, sometime minister at Inverness,
and himself Episcopal minister at Edinburgh, had
bequeathed all his Greek and Latin books to the Library