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504 Ihe Highland Monthly.
same way, is balanced, showing the sum of £\%^ is 5id
due by the Treasnrer. But as this Treasurer held the office
of Kirk or Collection Treasurer also, and there was a
balance due to him on that account of ;^r6 3s id
(apparently in his capacity of Hospital Treasurer), it left
the net balance due by him to the Session, ^168 i8s 4|d.
The Committee appointed by the Kirk Session reported,
on 24th February, 1789, that they were quite satisfied with
Mr Alex. Scheviz's statement of account ; and
they were
empowered to grant him a full discharge. They reported
again, on 21st May, that they had received the balance,
together with all the bonds, bills, and papers belonging to
the Hospital, and had granted him a discharge.
The amount paid to the pensioners during the ten
years from February, 1779, to March, 1789, was ^710 7s 6d,
though the Committee had recommended its gradual reduction
to ;^50 per annum.
Mr Robert Rose, one of the ministers, commenced taking
charge of the Library in 1779, in place of Mr Hector
Fraser, schoolmaster, who drew a salary.
A Committee had been appointed to examine Mr
George Scheviz's accounts, in August, 1785, and he was
then directed to bring them up positively on ist June, 1786,
at a meeting held on 1 8th April of that year ; but there is
no record that this was done.
Some property, described as " Munro's subjects,"
apparently mortgaged to the Session in security for a bond
of ^400—representing the greater part of Provost Dunbar's
two mortifications—were sold to Mr John Ettles in 1787,
for £116 3s id, which sum, with interest (in all ;^345 13s id),
was relent—;^220 of it to the Rev. Mr Fraser, and ^^125
13s id to Simon Fraser of Boblainie and John Fraser.
Another sum, of ;^226 i8s, representing Castlehill's and
Drakies' bonds, lent to Mansfield, Hunter, & Co., Edin-
burgh, was paid off the same year, and lent to Fraser,
Andrews, & Co., merchants in Inverness—the Treasurer
being instructed to let them know that the money could
not liemore than two or three years, as the Session had it