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appears to have been ^^"569 os 2ifd, for which they got an
obliq;ation for ^^463 8s 4d, regarded as capital, and decree
for the interest : and they seem to have expended in legal
proceedings no less than £2(^\ 15s 5d. Interest on the
£^61 8s 4d began henceforth to be paid.
There was one mortification during William Murray's
time, viz., that by Albert Munro of Coul, taking effect from
Jul}', lyji^oi £\oo left to the ministers and Kirk-Session
of Inverness for the use and behoof of the poor of the
parish.
This was part of a sum of ;i^300 made over to trustees,
the interest of which was to be paid in 3 equal parts to the
ministers and Kirk-Sessions of Inverness, Kiltearn, and
Alness respectively for the use of the poor of the said 3
parishes. The first payment of interest was made to the
Kirk-Session of Inverness in November, 1776, for 4 years
preceding. One-third of the capital sum was, subsequently,
made over to each of the 3 parishes.
The records of the Kirk-Session show how difficult the
members and their Treasurer found it to trace how the
amount of any particular mortification was invested. In
1769 they were in great doubt whether Bailie David Eraser's
mortification had been paid up, and in similar doubt is to
Dipple's mortification : and apparently they had recourse to
the Session minute book, not to the hospital account book
for information. Fully 7 years afterwards, in 1776, Mr
Simon Fraser, merchant in Inverness, presented to the
Session a caption and horning, at the instance of Provost
John Hossack, as Hospital Treasurer, against Alexander
Fraser of Fairfield for the sum of 1000 merks Scots as
principal, &c., together with a Discharge signed by the said
Provost Hossack of the above debt being paid, which Discharge
is by way of a letter directed to said Alexander
Fraser of Fairfield, dated 4th February, 1752. The date of
the obligation by Fairfield is registrate in the Sheriff Court
books of this Burgh, viz., October 1746. Alexander Fraser
of Fairfield's bond and interest from Martinmas, 1730, to