nerit, ut scholam alterius præceptoris perturbet, ostium pulset, voce aut strepitu studia interrumpat; inimicus iste publicus morum et studiorum, primam culpam triginta assibus, secundam bis tanto luat; et si usque ineptus esse pergat, ex Academiâ, infamiâ notatus, ejiciatur. Si verò beneficiarius fuerit, qui facinus tale ausus sit, beneficio insuper privetur; neque sit ullo modo licitum, per fas jusque hujus Academiæ, ut probroso illi et ingrato reditus postmodum unquam siet. 6. Si quis, dum prælectionibus intersit, præceptori, dicto factove, molestiam afferat, læsæ disciplinæ pœnas, gravissimè persolvat; sin beneficiarius, ter monitus dicto non audiens fuerit, beneficio privetur, idque detur digniori. 7. Intra pomaria Academiæ, ne quis cum sodalibus tempus terat; cum indignum sit, juvenes literis deditos, diem absumere, quasi nulla studiorum ratio esset reddenda. 8. Quum turpe sit, quenquam bonarum literarum studiosum, conspici cessantem aut otiosè per plateas vagantem; a nostris legibus interdictum est, ut ne quis nostrorum pro foribus Academiæ hæreat, aut compita vagabundus pererret. Qui ita fecerit, seque civibus et prætereuntibus inutile et iners spectaculum objecerit, is vel a præceptore quovis visus, vel a censore, sive publico sive privato, delatus, ob primam culpam tres asses solvat, pro secundâ sex; et si usque perstiterit, seque non modo ignavum sed etiam pertinacem præbuerit, apud Senatum Academicum deferatur, quò meliorem ad frugem revocetur. 9. Nisi comptus, in publicum ne prodito; sine togâ intra pomaria Academiæ deprehensus, aut illuvie squalidus, confestim multator. 10. Ne quis tectorium, ostia, fenestras, seras aut subsellia Academiæ labefactato; si quispiam adeò maleficus fuerit, damnum resarcito, duodecimque assibus insuper multator. 11. Ne quis studiis ludo posthabitis, aleæ, aut tabulis tudicularibus, aut Ludis scenicis det operam; pœna violati juris esto. 12. Sociorum suasve togas, libros, aut quidquam ad socios pertinens, ne labefactato: injuriam, dicto aut facto, ne cui inferto; nostri autem omnes cum omnibus, maximè verò inter se, amicè concorditerque degunto. 13. Qui jurgio oborto, quemlibet ad pugnam ultrò lacessiverit, solus poenam luito: lacessito, si apud præceptores detulerit, fraudi ne esto. 14. Pilas ex nive ne comprimito; qui ita fecerit, assibus sex stultitiam luito; sin pilæ nivalis, lapidis, ligni aut cujusvis materiei jactu, socium vel civem impetîerit, noxam gravissimè luat. 15. Ne quis Dei nomen temerè usurpet; piaculum primum 30 assibus luat, duplo secundum; sin posthac relabatur, e bonorum consortio abigitor. 16. Mendacii ac dicterii profani similis esto pœna. 17. Indigno cuilibet sodalitio ne immiscetor. 18. Præceptores eâ, quâ par est observantiâ, quisque ubique prosequitor: insalutatos ne prætereat. 19. Alternis diebus Veneris, omnes nostri (nisi quibus, ex Senatus Academici auctoritate, abesse licebit) in auditorio publico, horâ undecimâ, cum præceptoribus, congregantor; sedes ibi assignatas sine strepitu capessunto, quamque decet gravitatem præ se ferunto. 20. Ne quis sedem mutet, neve ante legitimum tempus exeat; qui secus fecerit, et strepitu, risu, sibilo, gestuve indecoro, præceptoribus aut sociis negotium facessat, læse disciplinæ supplicium grave ferat. Ad hæc præscripta semet alumni componant exigantque oportebit.-Cum autem infinitum foret nostros de unâquâque re commonere, nil vetat quominus Præceptores, si opus fuerit, pro se quisque, leges alias sanciant, quo meliùs Classium, queis præsunt, disciplinæ consulatur. Interea loci satis habuimus, ne quis legum inscientiam præ se ferat, eamque culpæ identidem prætendat, illa tantummodo delicta notâsse, a quibus nostri sibi præcavere potissimum debebunt. Hæc denique boni consulant Adolescentes ingenui; non enim sumus ii qui grave onus nostros imposuisse cupiamus; id solummodo agitur, ut ne qui de nostris in ea imprudentes incurrant, quæ adolescentes probos dedecent, et a bonarum artium studio atque cultu penitus abhorrent. University of Appendix, Part II. ORDER IV.-A Return of the manner in which the Senatus Academicus in the said College is composed, and the constituent Members thereof. Return by the Senatus Academicus. R.-The Senatus Academicus, when fully assembled, consists of the Chancellor, Rector, Dean of Faculty, Principal, four Professors termed also Regents (who are the Professors of Greek, Civil and Natural History, Natural Philosophy, and Moral Philosophy and Logic), and the Professors of Divinity, Oriental Languages, Mathematics, Medicine, and Chemistry. Order IV. ORDER V.-A Return of the Office-bearers in the said College, e. g. Chancellor, Rector, &c., and of the Persons or Electors by whom such Office-bearers are nominated or elected, and of the manner in which such Nomination or Election is made. Return by the Senatus Academicus. Office-bearers of the University : 1. Chancellor The Most Noble the Marquis of Huntly, elected 19th July 1814, for life, by the Senatus Academicus, and installed 28th November 1815. 2. Rector-Sir James M'Grigor, Knight, M.D., LL.D., elected 1st March 1826, for one year, by all the Students who are at the time attending any class in the College, agreeably to the Foundation Charter. The number of his Assessors, chosen by the same, has always been four. In choosing this officer, the passage of the Foundation Charter respecting his election has always been read by the Principal to the students, who are then divided by the Principal and Professors into four nations, each of which chooses a Procurator, and these procurators, who have been invariably students, are summoned to attend a meeting of the Senatus Academicus; in presence of which their votes are given, and recorded in a book containing the elections and proceedings of the Rectors and Order V. University of Appendix, Part II. Deans of Faculty, and the Procurators and all the members of the Senatus present sign the record. 3. Dean of Faculty-Alexander Thomson, Esquire, of Banchory, A.M., elected 1st March 1826, for one year, by all the members of the Senatus Academicus present, and the senior minister of Aberdeen, who sign the record. See the Foundation Charter. Order VI. ORDER VI.-A Return of the manner in which the Professors are appointed-in what hands the power of Inquiry, and Correction, Suspension, or Deprivation, is vested, or by whom it is claimed. Return by the Senatus Academicus. R.-Principal-Very Rev. William Lawrence Brown, D.D. Admitted 18th January 1796. Patron, the Crown. Professor of Divinity-Principal Brown. Admitted 12th August 1795. Patron, the Magistrates Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic, and Regent-George Glennie, D.D. Admitted 13th Professor of Natural Philosophy, and Regent-William Knight, LL.D. Professor of Civil and Natural History, and Regent―James Davidson, M.D. Admitted 20th February Admitted 1st July 1811. Professor of Greek, and Regent-John Stuart, A.M. Admitted 9th December 1782. Patron, the Admitted 18th June 1779. Professor of Mathematics- Robert Hamilton, LL.D. Professor of Oriental Languages-James Kidd, D.D. Admitted 11th January 1794. Patron, Sir Admitted 24th January 1823. Patron, the Crown. As to the manner in which the said Principal and Professors are appointed and admitted :— After obtaining presentations from the respective Patrons of their offices, they deliver them to a meeting of the Senatus Academicus; and on the presentations being sustained, a day is appointed for admission, and the senior Minister of Aberdeen, the Principal of King's College, and the Ministers of Fetteresso and Deer, are summoned to attend, agreeably to the foundation charter From the Crown having become patron of the principal offices in the College, by the forfeiture of Earl Marischal in 1715, the limit of sixty days between a vacancy and the subsequent admission, prescribed in the charter, has been seldom observed since that time, a longer space having generally elapsed. The Senatus Academicus, and other admitters, are entitled by the Charter to examine any presentee, if they are not, from previous knowledge, satisfied of his qualifications. The presentee is inducted to his office by the Principal's presenting him with his gown, and his presentation being recorded in the book containing the admissions of the Principals and Professors; the record is signed by all present. The power of inquiring into the conduct of Professors, and of correcting them, is vested in the Principal by the foundation Charter; the power of suspending and depriving them is also vested in the Principal, by the same Charter, cognitâ tamen causâ et adhibito consilio Rectoris et Decani Facultatis." 66 Order VII. ORDER VII.-A Return of the Salaries of the Principal and Professors, specifying the amount of each, and the funds whence derived-by what authority the amount is fixed; and if by the Senatus Academicus, whether under any, and what control. Return by the Senatus Academicus. R.-Return of the Salaries of the Principal and Professors, specifying the Amount of each, and the Funds whence derived. (See annexed Remarks.)-Total Salary. 253 0 0 253 0 0 253 0 0 253 0 0 253 0 0 Salary of Professor of Mathematics. From Dr. Liddel's Mortification-managed] 179 7 63174 18 111181 11 10 178 14 11184 5 8 by the Magistrates and Council of Aber-135 0 0 135 0 0 128 17 6 128 17 deen 6 142 0 11 Only very small sums having been mortified for the professorship of Divinity, when it was founded in 1616, the Magistrates and Council of Aberdeen have, for upwards of a century, attached to the duties of teaching the students of Divinity, the duty of preaching once every Sunday in the principal church of the city, in which the Magistrates attend Divine Service, but without any parochial charge; and they have continued the name of Minister of the Greyfriars' Church to this professor, although he has not, for the period above specified, officiated in the Greyfriars or College Church, to which the Magistrates appoint a different clergyman. As to the authority by which the Amount is fixed :— I. The Salaries of the Principal and four Regents arise from the Localities, Sir Thomas Crombie's Mortification, Rents of Pulmuir lands, Bishop's Rents, and payments from his Majesty's Exchequer. (1.) The Localities are the Rents allocated to the Principal and Regents by the foundation charter. The produce of the funds arising from the prices of ground, feu-duties, &c., belonging to the Greyfriars, Carmelites, and Blackfriars of Aberdeen, were, in 1593, or very soon afterwards, set apart for their salaries; and, in pursuance of the charter of William Earl Marischal, of 7th October 1623 (Returns to No. 1), they were infeft in them on the 25th of the same month. (Sasine registered in John Mowat's register of sasines for the sheriffdom of Aberdeen, 19th November 1623. Rental of 1593 in the charter-chest.) The rental of 1640 (in the charter-chest) exhibits the whole as allocated to the Principal and four Regents. Each of these five individuals had his own share of these localities, which he managed himself, collecting the rents and feu-duties. In 1716, the Regents, then expelled, attested a copy of the rental to the Commission of Visitation, and that Commission gave a copy attested by their clerk to the College. On the death of any Regent, the surviving Regents had, by custom, the privilege of succeeding to his locality, in the order of seniority of appointment to their offices, if esteemed more valuable than those they held. University of Appendix, Part II. This plan having led to numerous inconveniences, the four Regents, in 1755, agreed to unite their rents into one fund, and divide its annual proceeds equally amongst them. (Order of Faculty, 6th March 1755.) In 1759, the Principal's locality was, at his own desire, taken into the same fund, he to receive, on account of its superior value, one-third of the whole produce, and each of the four regents one-sixth part. (Order of Faculty, 22d February 1759.) This mode has been since followed without deviation. A procurator or agent was appointed to manage the whole fund; in 1802 (30th November), David Hutcheon, Esq., advocate in Aberdeen, the present agent, was appointed; his salary ten guineas, but he is assisted in collecting the various payments by the Sacrist of the College. He makes one payment at Whitsunday of £100 to the Principal, and £50 to each of the four Regents; at Martinmas he pays the balance in the same proportion, and at that term his accounts are examined annually, and signed by the Principal and Regents. As to the Control of these Localities: After the Principal and Regents, they are under the inspection of all the other members of the Senatus Academicus and of Commissions of Visitation. (2.) The Principal and Regents receive the sums called Sir Thomas Crombie's Mortification under the authority of his donation, dated 5th March 1644. The fund is managed by the Magistrates and Town-council of Aberdeen, and the accounts are open to the inspection of the members of the College. (3.) The Rents from the lands of Pulmuir were bequeathed by Mrs. Blackwell, by will of 18th May 1793, and are managed by Mr. Hutcheon, College agent, under the same control as the localities. His salary one guinea per annum. (4.) The Bishop's Rents are received by authority of a warrant of King William under the Great Seal, dated 30th November 1699. (5.) The Exchequer payments on the Civil Revenue of Scotland are received by virtue of royal warrants, the first by George I. (20th May 1718), and renewed by successive sovereigns after their accession. The £105 thus granted yearly, to be divided as follows:-£20 to the Principal, £20 to the Professor of Divinity, and £10. 16s. 8d. to each of the four Regents, and to the Professors of Mathematics and Medicine. An order from the Barons of Exchequer, of 16th February 1727, relieves the College from the payment of sixpence in the pound of fees on this grant. In 1812, by royal warrant of 17th October, and for the reasons therein specified, £40 were added to the salary of the Principal, and £33 to that of each of the Professors, to be paid out of the Exchequer of Scotland during pleasure. II. The salary of the Professor of Divinity (exclusive of the above Exchequer payments of £20 and £40) is paid from funds at the disposal of the Magistrates and Town-council of Aberdeen, patrons of the office. The salary of the Professor of Oriental Languages (exclusive of the above Exchequer payment of £33) is paid by Sir Alexander Ramsay of Balmain, Baronet, Patron of the office, and is the interest of £1000 sterling mortified in his hands by Dr. Ramsay of Barbadoes in 1727. The salary of the Professor of Mathematics (exclusive of the above Exchequer payments of £10. 16s. 8d. and £33) is paid by the Magistrates and Town-council of Aberdeen, from the fund mortified in their hands by Dr. Duncan Liddel, founder of the professorship (by will dated 9th December 1613). The only salary of the Professor of Medicine (exclusive of the above Exchequer payments of £10. 16s. 8d. and £33) is a sum of £2. 15s. sterling, mortified in 1762 by Mr. John Paterson, and managed along with the Bursary of the same Benefactor by the Principal and Professors. (See the account of the Burse Funds, in Returns to 9 and 10.) The salary of the Professor of Chemistry (exclusive of the above Exchequer payment of £33) is entirely derived from the lands of Pulmuir, devised for that purpose inter alia by Mrs. Blackwell (by will of 18th May 1793), and managed by Mr. Hutcheon, College agent, along with the Localities of the Principal and Regents, and under the same control with them. The Principal, and all the Professors of Marischal College (Assistant Professors excepted), are by Act of Parliament obliged to become members of the Widow's Fund of the Clergy of the Church of Scotland. Correction of the Return of Salaries. In the Return of Salaries it is stated that the Professor of Divinity, as Professor and as Preacher without parochial charge, receives annually from the town of Aberdeen the sum of £200, consisting of the revenue from certain mortifications managed by the Magistrates and Council, and an additional payment from their treasury. As the offices of Professor of Divinity and Minister of Greyfriars' Church are not necessarily united in the same individual, but may on some future occasion be disjoined, it seems more proper to state what portion of the salary belongs to each office, as follows: Average annual income, from mortifications, for the Professor of Divinity £66 53 Total salary of the Professor of Divinity. 119 Average annual income, from mortifications, for the minister of Greyfriars' Church 88 46 (2.) Dr. Cook's Report as to Endowments of Professors. In Reporting as to the adequacy of the Endowments in King's and Marischal Colleges, Aberdeen, a statement is first made, upon the supposition that they remain distinct Seminaries, and then upon the supposition that they are to be united. It is proper to remark, that as the salaries of the Principals and Professors partly depend upon the annual returns from the College property, they must vary a little in different years; but the salaries stated may be considered as about the average, and the calculations exhibit very nearly the amount of the different endowments. KING'S COLlege. Principal.-Salary, £175. 14s. 11d. 52 bolls bear, and 36 bolls meal. Converting the bear and meal at £1 per boll, the whole living amounts to £263. 14s. 11d. He has also a house, but he pays the interest of £300, which had been borrowed by the College to repair the fabric. Quite inadequate. It should not be less than 500 or 600 per annum. Sub-Principal.-Salary, £125. 12s. 4d. 26 bolls bear, and 18 bolls meal. Surplus rent from College-croft, £22. 17s. 11d. At the above rate of conversion, amount of salary, £192. 10s. 3d. He has also a house, but pays as interest upon a sum borrowed to repair it, £18. 17s. 6d. The office of Sub-principal is held by one of the Regents, and there falls to be added to it the fees of the class which he teaches. The present Sub-principal is Professor of Greek. His fees, as the class is at present arranged, may be taken upon an average at £236, and they would greatly exceed this were the alterations as to the Greek class, suggested by the Commission, carried into effect. The living may, therefore, be considered as quite adequate. Three Regents.-Salaries, £125. 4s. 15 bolls bear, and 10 bolls meal. Each of them draws a surplus rent from the College-croft, which may be estimated at about £22, and they have houses at a moderate rent. Total salary about £170. The fees of the Mathematical class may be stated at £142; but if the second Mathematical class were disjoined from the Natural Philosophy department, and assigned, with an adequate fee, to the Mathematical Professor, they would much exceed that sum, and would render the living sufficient. The Professor of Natural Philsophy draws of fees about £116, and a trifling sum from degrees, which can scarcely be taken into estimation; and even were a second Natural Philosophy class instituted, this sum would not be greatly augmented. His living may be reported as inadequate. The fees of the Professor of Moral Philosophy derived from his class, and from graduation in Arts, amount to about £160. It is probable that the fees from graduation will rather decrease, and something should be added to render the living sufficient. Humanist.-Salary, £125. 12s. 4d. 26 bolls bear, and 18 bolls meal. Glebe valued at £10. A house, but he pays for this in name of interest, for money borrowed upon it, £33. 14s. 8d. The fees, from the mode in which the class is taught, are inconsiderable; but under a different arrangement would render the living adequate. The present Professor of Humanity teaches Chemistry, but as this union will probably be dissolved, the fees from the Chemical class are not to be taken into estimation. Civilist and Mediciner.-These Professors have the same salary with the Humanist. The Civilist has a glebe, from which he draws of feu-duty 4 bolls of bear. No fees have ever been drawn by this Professor, and it is probable that the Professorship will be put upon a different and efficient footing. How much may thus be added cannot at present be estimated; as it now stands, the emoluments are wholly inadequate for the decent support of a Professor. The Mediciner has a manse and glebe, from which he draws £23, and he is entitled to a sum upon each Medical degree, which, under the former regulations, might have amounted on an average to £120; but this is almost completely annihilated by the regulations recently introduced. No class has been ever taught, and consequently no fees have been drawn. The chair must be put on a different footing. Professor of Divinity.—Salary, £187. 11s. 6d. 22 bolls bear, £40. Os. 2d.; 1 meal—in all, at the above valuation, about £249. There is also a house. The present incumbent, upon his admission, obtained an allowance of £150 from the Exchequer. The whole is not more than would be requisite for the proper endowment of the chair, even although the fees contemplated, in the case of Divinitystudents, should be exacted. Professor of Hebrew.-The salary is £166. 17s. 2d. The fees hitherto drawn are inconsiderable, and there is no probability of their yielding such a sum as would be sufficient for the comfortable endowment of the Professorship. MARISCHAL COLLEGE. Principal and Professor of Divinity.-The salary of the Principal may be stated on an average as £318, without any house, a sum quite inadequate for the support of the situation. It has been usually united with a Professorship, generally, as at present, with the Professorship of Divinity, the salary of which is only £119. With that Professorship there has been commonly combined the office of Minister of the Greyfriars, which does not include under it any parochial charge; but the two may, and probably will be separated, as may the Principality and the Professorship. The Professorship, notwithstanding any addition from fees, would require a considerable increase. Professor of Oriental Languages.-The salary of this Professorship consists of the interest of £1000, mortified for its institution, and £33 from the Exchequer, in all £78—a miserable allowance, which the exaction of fees would not materially increase. Humanity. There is no Humanity Professorship, but a class has been taught of late years; and the return from the fees at present exacted is not sufficient for the support of a Chair. Four Regents. The salary of the four Regents may be stated at about £179. The Professor of Greek has, in addition to this, fees nearly to the amount of £210, and under a different arrangement the situation would be amply endowed. The fees of the Professor of Natural History may be stated at £156, which, added to the salary, would not constitute an adequate living; but there will probably be modifications of this class, by which the value of the endowment may be increased. The fees of the Professor of Natural Philosophy amount to about £169, but some addition to the emoluments is requisite to render the living what it is desirable that it should be. The fees of the Professor of Moral Philosophy do not, on an average, exceed £60; but he draws upwards of £60 from the conferring of Degrees in Arts. This source cannot be altogether depended upon, and the situation must be considered as considerably below what should be assigned to it. Professor of Mathematics.-The salary attached to this Professorship may be stated, upon an ave University of Appendix, Part II. Endowments of Aberdeen Professorships. King's College. Marischal College. |