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The Hospital of Inverness. 603
and a new one was ready in 1861. Under this arrange-
ment, the rent of the weigh-house and garden was lost for
several years, as a reparation fund for the Hospital, for
which it was set apart by Provost Dunbar in all time com-
ing ; but in the Hospital accounts for year ending Martin-
mas, 1S64, we again find rent, Martinmas 1863, of Hospital-
buildings for half-year, i,'2i, and it has been continuously
let since.
The office of Treasurer was faithfully and carefully discharged
by Dr Macdonald for fully half a century. On 3rd
April, 1 87 1, the Kirk-Session renewed his appointment as
Hospital and Kirk Treasurer, and associated with him his
son, Mr Allan Macdonald. The investments have been
\aried as occasion required, and the accounts audited
annually by the Session. In 1 85 1 ,they began to be balanced
at Martinmas instead of at 30th April, and since 1877, at
31st December. The funds have been increased by a
legacy of ;i^685, including interest thereon, from Miss Jane
Robertson, in 1855, left to Dr Macdonald, then minister of
the First Charge, and certain other persons, whom failing,
to the first minister for the time being, and any two elders
to be chosen and assumed by him, for behoof of poor
or decayed members of, or parties, worshipping in the
Established Churches of Inverness and Bona ;
from Mr Ross of £2a,, in 1863 ; and
also a legacy
a legacy from Mr
Wilson, for the poor, of i^200, in 1875. A later
legacy has not yet fallen in ; it is one from Mrs Janet
Mann or Clark to the High Church of Inverness, to be paid
to the minister and Kirk-Session of that Church for the
time being, the money to be invested and interest expended
at their discretion in providing coals to the aged poor of
the parish. The amount left was ^^400, but intimation has
been received that the estate is not likely to allow more
than ;^200 to be paid. The legacy was payable on the
death of two annuitants, one of whom predeceased the
testator, and the other, it is presumed, still survives.