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

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.
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