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Ihe Hospital of hiVerness. 531
this, to take up ^80 of capital deposited in that bank.
.See Session Records, 25th May and 8th June, 1824.
Further, at this time certain receipts from the Marriage
fund, and from what was called the " Surplus of Sunday-
Collections," were included in the Hospital Treasurer's
account on the charge side, and payments to precentors
and kirk officers on the discharge side, evidently chargeable
in part to the church collection moneys. But, in 1834, we
find the salaries to church officers first entered, and then
deducted, as " to be charged in future to collection account."
The amount was ;i^i8, and the receipts from collection were
no longer entered.
To go back a few years, the value of the old Hospital
proper increased temporarily, for, on 22nd May, 18 10, the
Session let on lease, for seven years from Whitsunday of
that year, the whole of the Hospital house except the
weigh-house, to Colonel the Hon. A. Fraser of Lovat for
;;^i 5 per annum, apparently for a storehouse. This is the
amount stated in the Session Records, but in the accounts
the rent actually paid was ^25, the magistrates paying £6
for the weigh-house. At the expiry of this lease, the
building remained unlet for a time ;
but
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the old writing-
school was let in 1821 at £i 3s, and the room required for
the Library, in 18 19, at £"] 7s.
Another mistake as to figures may be noticed. It was
reported to the Session, on 24th October, 1 809, that Widow
James Mackintosh, alias Fraser, had left i5"i8 stg. to the
Session of Inverness on behalf of the poor ; but, on 30th
April, 18 1 1, her deed of settlement was presented to the
Session, under which she left to the ministers, elders, and
other members of the Kirk Session of Inverness, for behoof
of the poor of the said parish, the sum of £'$,0 stg., but
under the proviso that, out of the interest, £1 stg. per
annum was to be paid to a Widow Fraser, residing in the
Green of Muirtown, during her life. This ^80, paid on
nth July, 181 1, was added to the capital stock. About
this time the Session received several benefactions for the