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5o8 The Highland Monthly.
One of these payments is the purchase of
Evan Campbell's lands, £go, and
Town Clerk's account, £'^ ... ... 95 o O
Another a paymentto Reparation Treasurer
of money due by the Hospital Fund 46 1 1 8
And another by Hospital, Provost Dun-
bar's, and Mr Albert Munro's, and the
Laird of Mackintosh's pensioners, from
1st August, 1789, to 1st February,
1 79 1, inclusive... ... ... ... 11 1 4 10
This again is followed by a full and clear statement of
" money, lands, and debts belonging to the Hospital of
Inverness" as at 15th March, 1791. It includes, however,
a good many items of interest to the amount of
£\ 17 17s 5d, and the balance due by himself, £/\,6 ys 7d, as
well as Capital Stock, and in the latter is included what he
calls above, " the proportion applicable to particular pur-
poses," the total being ^^2768 17s 5|d. A report of a
Committee is then given, evidently prepared by the
Treasurer, and approved by the members of the Committee,
who sign it. It contains a recommendation that an
Act of Council should be got from the Magistrates as a
security for the whole sums due by them to the Session, so
that the interest might become payable at one time. The
accounts are made up in the same form yearly, the date
being changed first to May and then to October, up to
1804, and then for the short period to Februar)-,
he died.
1805, when
We find in the account for May, 1792, one bond of the
Magistrates dated May, 1791, for ;^II25 ; also an Act of
theirs for a loan for completing the new church for iJ'200.
The Magistrates paid up their bond oi £\ 125 in full, with
a year's interest, in May, 1793
lent at 4^ per cent, on heritable bond to Lewis Cuthbert^
; and the sum of ^^^1300 was
of Castlehill. Their other bond of ;^200 was paid up in
November, 1803. Donald Calder and his wife's mortification,
originally £2^, was paid up with interest and
expenses, amounting in all to ^^44 i8s i id, in May, 1796.