Pullar Mortification 1811-1859 Minute Book - Nine Trades of Dundee

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By lot number 12 of said grounds feued to Aikman Miller on the east, by lot number 14 feued to Charles Henderson on the west, by the lands of Blackness from which the same are separated by a small rivulet on the south and by a road or street of 30 feet in breadth on the north parts. Declaring that one half of the breadth of the said road so far as it bounds the said piece of grounds is included in the measurement thereof. Together with these and privilege of the wells erected by the said Tobert Miln near to the centre of the foresaid lands and free access thereto. Together also with the teinds and other pertinents of said piece of ground all lying within the Lordship of Scone formerly in the United parishes of Liff Logie and Invergowrie now in the Parish of Dundee and shire of Forfar. But always with and under the declarations contained in and referred to in the Feu Disposition of the said subjects last above disponed granted by the said Robert Miln I favour of the said Alexander McDonald date the 17 th day of July 1830. All as specified ad describes in the said Bond and Disposition under reversion and Instrument of Sasine thereon n o far as regards the Burgage property first above described date the 24 th day of November 1830 and Registered in the Register of Sasines &c kept for the Burgh of Dundee the same day and also Instrument of Sasine thereon in so far as regards the landivard property second above described dated the said 24 th day of November 1830. and Registered in the particular Register of Sasines &c kept at Dundee of Forfarshire the same day together with a letter of obligation in our favour as Trustees foresaid made and granted by James Sydgate Blacksmith in Dundee & George Robertson Plasterer there Trustees for the Creditors for the said Alexander McDonald dated the 7 th day of March 1837 for payment of eh interest on the said Bond and Disposition under reversion. In Witness hereof I have subscribed these presents written upon this and the five preceding pages of Stamped paper together with the marginal additions on pages first and sixth by William Black clerk to Thomas Lovell Hammond Writer in Dundee. At Dundee the 15 th day of Decr in the year 1846 before these Witnesses George Robertson Wilson and Alexander Robertson both apprentices to James and John Ogilvie Writers in Dundee (Signed) Jas. Ogilvie R.R. Wilson witness Alexr Robertson Witness. Copy Discharge by the new Trustee s of Pullar’s Mortification in favour of the Original Trustee s Of the three preceding Assignations Whereas by Trust disposition and Settlement dated the 15 th day of December 1804 and codicil thereto annexed dated the 28 th day of April 1810 and Recorded in the Books of Council and Session the 16 October 1811, made and granted by James Pullar late Baker in Dundee with consent of Mrs Elizabeth Crawford otherwise Pullar the said James Pullar with consent foresaid and the said Mrs Elizabeth Crawford or Pullar for herself and they both with mutual advice and consent did under the conditions reservations and provisions therein after inserted. Give Grant and Dispone in favour of James Gray, Walter Newall and Andrew Peddie all then Merchants in Dundee and James Ogilvie Writer there and to the survivors or survivor of them the major part alive and accepting at the time being always a quorum as Trustees for the uses and purposes therein aftermentioned and to the assignees or disponees of the said Trustees All and Sundry lands and heritages (save and excepting the subjects disponed by the said James Pullar to the said Elizabeth Crawford in liferent and John Pullar Baker in Dundee in fee by Disposition of date 16 th January 1800) and all debts and sums of money heritable and moveable due by Heritable Bonds Adjudications, Personal Bonds, Bills or other vouchers of debt and all sundry personal and moveable effects of every kind and denomination belonging to the said James Pullar or which shall belong to him at the time of his death dispensing with the generality thereof and declaring the same to be as valid and effectual as if his said whole estate Heritable and Moveable real and personal were therein particularly described and which whole subjects heritable and moveable thereby disponed were conveyed in Trust always for the uses and purposes and under the conditions and reservations therein after mentioned vizt: 20
That the said Trustees should upon the death of the said James Pullar recover the several debts and sums of money due to him to be by them employed in manner following. That is to say in the first place the said Trustees should satisfy and pay all the just and lawful debts that should be resting and owing by the said James Pullar at the time of his death and in the next place they should lend out the neat Balance of the said debts due to him when recovered in good security heritable or personal and should pay over to the said Elizabeth Crawford during her life in case she should survive him the whole interest arising therefrom with the whole dividends and profits arising from his other personal subjects and the whole rents of his heritable property and at the first term of Whitsunday or Martinmas after the death of both her and him the said Trustees should make payment to any person or persons whom the said Elizabeth Crawford might point out by a writing under her hand the sum of One Thousand pounds Sterling with Two Hundred pounds Sterling of liquidate penalty in case of failure and the legal interest of the said principal sum from the said term of payment yearly and termly thereafter during the non payment of the same. Declaring that in so far as the said Sum of One thousand pounds should not be disposed of by the said Elizabeth Crawford by a writing under her hand the same should be exigible and also Declaring that whatever property she might be possessed of arising from the interest of rents of the property thereby conveyed and including her Household furniture, body clothes, paraphernalia or otherwise and shall fail to dispose thereof in manner foresaid the same should be deemed and considered as part of the Trust Estate thereby conveyed and be at the disposal of the said Trustees. Which provision the said Elizabeth Crawford accepted in full satisfaction of every thing she could claim through her husbands death in case she survived him or that her Exers or nihgest in kin could claim through her predecease; And with respect to his other moveable means and Estate the same should be managed and preserved by the said Trustees during the lifetime of the said Elizabeth Crawford with her consent except the household furniture which was to be at her absolute disposal and after her death he appointed the said Trustees to sell and dispose of the same together with his lands and heritages as soon as convenient to be by them employed along with the rest of his Estate thereby conveyed for the purposes after mentioned namely, In the third place the said Trs. should pay the Several Legacies therein specified. In the fourth place he appointed his said Trustees after his death to allow the sect of Bereans in Dundee to continue in possession of that flat of the tenement of land situated in the Methodist or Mitchells Close for the five yearly rent of £5 Sterling exclusive of cess and repairs so long as they possessed the leading doctrines of the Beareans which were briefly stated in the Encyclopaedia Perenthsis and detailed in the works of the late John Barclay and, Lastly the remainder of the said Estate heritable and moveable thereby conveyed should be allowed to accumulate with the interest to a Capital Stock of £3,000 Stg. after which period the interest of the amount should be applied to discharge the following annuities vizt: To the Dundee Infirmary £10 Sterling. To the Poor of the Trades of Dundee five pounds Sterling. To the Kirk Session of Dundee for behoof of the Poor thereof Five pounds Sterling which last annuity should be given at the door of the Old Church on the first Sunday of every Year by the Deacon of the Baker Trade in Dundee; and after answering these annuities the one half of the yearly surplus should be applied towards maintaining and educating Ten poor Boys who should not be admitted under six years of age nor continue longer on the fund than six years. And the other half of the interest to be distributed among ten poor old men and women not below sixty years of age such boys and paupers of the name of Pullar and particularly those who could prove their pedigree from John Pullar farmer in Mill of Haughmuir, the father of the Testator should be preferred. And further it was thereby declared that upon the death or non acceptance of any three of the before named Trustees the whole property thereby conveyed should rest in the survivors who should be obliged to denude of the Trust and account for his Intromissions with the Trust Estate, pay over whatever Balance may be then remaining in is hand and at the same time redispone the land described and reconvey whatever Grounds of Debt might be then standing in his person to and in favour of the Minister of the Overgate District in the Parish of Dundee for the time being and his successors in office, twenty members of the Kirk Session of Dundee selected by that Body, to the Convener and Deacons of the Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee then if Office and to the Nine Deacons of the preceding year and their successors in Office as Trustees and Patrons for the uses ends and purposes and with the several powers and privileges conferred by the said Settlement on the Trustees therein named. 21
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