University of Audiel.-Vide Sh. 12. 21. Mr. James Watt.-Mortification.-Vide No. 2 of that Enumeration. 22. St. Germains comprehends, 1st. The Teinds of Mary kirk, Abergarden, Glenmuick, and Slaines. For an account of these see the Enumeration, p. 197. King's College. 28.) Mr. J. Edmond. 18 September 1827. 2d. The following Annuities, viz.— £11 Scots, from the Lockhouse, Lothian. 1. Finlaysons and Company in Leith. Templars of Inchture. Of Perhaps there were other Annuities belonging to the Hospital of St. Germains. 32. Ross' Mortification seems never to have been fully settled; at least, it does not appear 33. Humphrey's Croft.-Vide Enumeration, p. 200. 34. Mediciner's and other Manses.-This Shuttle contains the title to the following Annuities: All these, with the exception of Baldavie, were struck from the rental in 1722; the Annuity from Baldavie, although still included, has not been drawn for many years. 5. College Bounds and Mediciners' Manse.-Vide Enumeration, pp. 196, 197. 7. Civilist's Glebe, 8. Canonist's Glebe and Manse. 35. Chaplain's Chambers, &c.-including, These appear in the Enumeration, pp. 196, 197. 1. The Chaplain's Chambers.-Vide Sh. 19. 2. Strachan's Croft, supposed to be that on which the Principal's manse now is. 3. Regent's Croft.-Vide Enumeration, p. 197, Art. 9. 37. Lorimer's Mortification. Park's do.-Vide Mortification Return, p. 208, Art. 6. Reid's do.-Lorimer's and Reid's Mortifications do not appear at all in the accounts. That there were such, there is no doubt. They are mentioned in an abstract prefixed to the account for 1700; but the accounter states that he had no intromission with them, and there has been none, that can now be ascertained. Watson's} Mortifications.-Vide Return, pp. 208, 209. 38. Newhills.-Relative to the Teinds of Newhills. 39. 1. Auchindore.-A Patronage, sold, as mentioned in Enumeration, p. 201. 2. Westhall.-Vide Sh. 17. 41. The Deanry.-l'ide Enumeration, p. 198.. 44. King's General Confirmations.-These are relative to properties, &c. which had been previously acquired by the College. Those not mentioned before, are— p. 209. 51. Half Nets Salmon Fishing.-Vide Redhyth's Mortification, Return, p. 207. 52. Cairntradlin.-Feued by the Professor of Divinity to the College.-Vide Enumeration, p. 200. NEW CHARTER CHEST. 23. Lundy's House and Yard.-The House fell. The Yard is mentioned in Enumeration, p. 197. 24. Glenfarquhar's Mortification.-Vide Return, p. 209. 25. Greig's do. Fraser's, Ogilvy's, and M'Intosh's.-Vide Return, p. 210. 26. Bogfairley.-Purchased by the funds arising from the sale of Superiorities, &c., and afterwards resold, as stated in Enumeration, p. 201. 27. Grant's Mortification.-Vide Return, p. 211. 35. Gregory's do.-This was a mortification for behoof of Salmon Fishers, which does not appear to have been under the management of the College. 37. Deeds and Sasines.-Anderson. This Shuttle contains some unconnected deeds not in the name of the College. 46. Tulloch and Sclaity.-Vide Return, pp. 200, 206. 48. Balnakettle.-Vide Return, p. 200. 51. Redhyth.-Vide Old Chest, Sh. 49. 52. Fullarton's Mortification.-Vide do. Sh. 50. Mr. David Hutcheon called in and examined. Are you the Factor of this College ?-I am common Procurator and Master of Mortifications to this College. University of King's College. Mr. D. Hutcheon, Can you state what is the amount of the capital which King's College possesses, if they have any?—I can give an account of the property that they have, but I do not know that they have any capital in money. They have the property and funds belonging to the mor- 18 September 1827. tifications; and there are four sums lent from them, as stated in the Supplementary Appendix to the Returns of this College, pages 10 and 11. The question relates to the property of the College: do not the Superiority and Patronage Funds belong to the College?-Yes, they do belong to the College. There is an exact account given of them in the Returns that were made by the College. I have compared those Returns with my accounts, and they are accurate, with some very trifling exceptions. It is stated, in the Abstract of the Procuration Accounts, that the Procurator's borrowings amount to £8,465; are the Commissioners to understand that that is a debt due by the Procuration Account?-The sum due by the Procuration is £2,192. Os. 7d. To whom is that due?—It is due partly to the mortifications, and partly to the Edilis Fund. How much is due to the Mortification Fund?-I do not know if I can distinguish_them. It is stated in the last printed Return, p. 10: " Principal sums lent to the Common Procurator of the College, for behoof of the procuration, and chiefly laid out by that fund on the purchase and permanent improvement of their lands, for which the procuration property and revenues are liable, £5,290. 2s. 4d." Are the Commissioners to understand that the whole amount of that sum is borrowed from the mortifications ?-Yes. Then how is it that the total debt only amounts to £2,192?-I suspect the £2,192 is besides the Superiority Funds; that sum merely regards what comes into the Procuration Account. Then it appears that in that Return, in page 11, there is a principal sum, that seems to have been expended in buildings, borrowed by the College, amounting to £3,150. 9s. 4d.; is that borrowed solely from the mortifications?-Solely from the mortifications. Then, according to that result, the College have borrowed from the mortifications about £8,500?-Yes. What is there to answer the interest of that money which has been borrowed by the College, whether for the Procuration or for the Edilis Account, from the mortifications?— There is the property belonging to the Edilis Fund, and the property belonging to the Procuration. That is to say, the interest of the money is a burden upon the property of the College?— Certainly. What are the sources from which the interest on the sums lent to the Edilis Fund is paid? -The interest is paid from a variety of different sources of income. There is the interest of £254 of stocked money, belonging to the Edilis Fund; annual sums paid from the Procuration and Superiority Funds; room-rents from the Bursars, and rents of houses possessed by the Principal and Professors. The amount of the income is £182. 8s. 7d. for 1825. What is the exact amount of the mortifications ?-It is mentioned in the printed Returns. The whole sum lent from the mortifications is £13,850, being the whole amount of the balances on the mortification accounts. Of which £5,400 is lent upon the lands of Newton Hill, and upon heritable bonds and dispositions in security?—Yes. I have the bonds here, if the Commissioners wish to see them. Is there any separate account kept for each mortification ?-There is a separate account kept for each, and the increase, or decrease, is ascertained every year. I have here an abstract, shewing the increase and decrease of different mortifications.-[The Witness delivered in the same, and it is subjoined at the end.] Do many bursaries continue vacant for any length of time?—I have never seen any bursary continue vacant for more than a year. How is the revenue of the bursary disposed of, during the vacancy?-It is added to the capital fund, to increase it. Is the amount paid to the Bursar increased in any degree ?-It is increased from time to time, but there is always a small surplus kept; at least there is so almost upon the whole of the bursaries; and it is the plan of the College always to have this small surplus, so as to increase the capital. Is that the case with each bursary ?-Yes, upon most of the funds. There are from four to twenty-six bursaries upon some of the funds, as stated in the Supplementary Appendix to the Returns of this College; and after a small surplus is laid aside, the rest of the revenue is divided among the Bursars.-[The Witness withdrew.] Additions and Explanations, on revising Evidence. "In addition to, and explanation of, several parts of the foregoing evidence, the Witness has to state "Imo. That of the sum of £5,290, due by the Procuration to the Mortifications, almost the whole is repayable by yearly instalments, from the revenue of the property and funds of the Procuration. "2do. That the said sum is composed of a number of sums borrowed from time to time, for defraying the expense of permanent improvements on lands, &c.; and since the Witness became Factor to the College, in the year 1815, every sum thus borrowed, with the exception being increased, viz. Melville's, Park's, Watson's, Glenfarquhar's, Gre vie's, Coll's, Duff's, Grant's, Johnston's, Stuart's, and Macleod's, same amount; and when the general rate of interest is 5 per cent., surplus, which is added to the fund; but when interest is below tha lately for some years, there is a small deficiency; and this will accou rent decrease of the capital stock of some of these bursaries. All t bursaries belonging to the College, are ample, and have a surplus a year, as will appear from the Returns made by the College to the C shewing the INCREASE and DECREASE of the Yearly Rents and Feu-Duties of the | PROPERTIES belonging to KING'S COLLEGE of ABERDEEN, since Mr. HUTCHEON e Factor in 1815. e above Account, those Properties are only mentioned, on which a difference has arisen on the yearly Revenue. University of King's College. 18 September 1827. Professor Paul. The Reverend William Paul, A.M., again called in and further examined. You have been Curator of the Library ?-I was, one year. What are the funds destined to the support of the Library?—The Library has a small sum lent at interest, which amounts to £6. 15s., partly paid by the Procuration, and partly by the Edilis fund: this is its steady income. Besides, it has an occasional income, as stated in the Return, of 2s. 6d. for the matriculation of every student who wears a gown, attends morning prayers, and goes regularly through the course. Farther, it has an income from degrees conferred in Law, Medicine, and Divinity, amounting, as far as I recollect, to £2. 10s. from each Degree; and in Arts, of 6s. Sd. from Alumni, and of £3 from those who are not Alumni. What is the average annual amount of the funds destined to the support of the Library?I am afraid I cannot state that immediately, but it might be easily obtained. The Principal is the present Curator, and has all the accounts. He could furnish the last Library account, which was settled in the month of April, and from it an idea of the average amount might be formed. In addition to the books presented under the Act of Parliament, has the Library the means of making any purchases ?-It has means from another fund, called Hollis's Fund. Many years ago Mr. Hollis left £100 for the use of the Library. That sum has accumulated now to more than £150; and the Senatus came to a resolution lately, that they would not suffer it to increase beyond £150, but employ the surplus in the purchase of books, agreeably to the donor's intentions. Since I became Professor, no books have been purchased; books were purchased before that time, but the Library Fund has suffered very much of late years. In consequence of the new Act we get almost all the new publications in sheets, and the Library Fund has to pay the whole expense of binding. Are the funds sufficient to enable you to bind all the books ?-They are not sufficient to bind them in the way that is proper for a public Library. Valuable books are bound pretty well as to the back part, but we can neither bind them in calf nor in sheep; and a great many of them are bound in the slightest manner, and at a very cheap rate, perhaps fourpence or sixpence a volume. Our Library has suffered very much in this respect, that we have hitherto been at all the expense of the keeping and the binding of the books; and therefore we have been able to buy fewer books for ourselves than our neighbours. When Fraser's bursaries were so much augmented by the feuing of the lands at Bankhead, we were enabled to give the Divinity Bursar £40 a year; and we then called upon him, in the terms of the foundation of his bursary, to act as Librarian. By the founder, the sum left was only £6 per annum for a Divinity Bursar, and £5 for a Philosophy Bursar; and while the sum was so low, we thought it a hardship to call upon the Bursar to do the duty of the office, and the salary of Librarian was paid out of the Library Funds; but when the bursary was augmented to £40, we thought it incumbent upon us to avail ourselves of his services, and save the other funds. It appears that there is an annual inspection of the Library?-Since the new regulations were adopted there has been so, and I have taken a part in it every year; it becomes a very laborious work, because we count every book in the Library. We have a shelf catalogue, as well as an alphabetical catalogue: the shelf catalogue contains the names of the books in every shelf; we look at the books on every shelf, count the numbers, say perhaps that there are 20 volumes in the shelf, while the person having the catalogue finds that there are 21; and in counting the books again, we turn to the lists, and see on whose page the missing book is entered. Since the adoption of the new regulations there has not been a book unaccounted for, while, previously to that time, we sustained considerable losses; books were taken out, and sent nobody knew whither; but since the new regulations, the Librarian alone has the key of the Library, and no Professor can get out a book without depositing a receipt for it. Whoever gets out a book gets it upon a Professor's receipt, and the Professor is answerable for it from that time forward; that is, he does not get any book after the visitation of the Library, till he deposit the value of the book amissing, or produce it to the Librarian. Is it the practice to sell books that come from Stationers' Hall, that are unfit for the University?-In my time, it has not been the practice. I believe a little time before I came into the College the music was sold; but from the time of the new Act, I am convinced there has not been an article of the smallest value ever appropriated to a different purpose from that contemplated by the Act. There are little articles sent that are never put into shelves. We get child's primers, labels for blacking, and a great variety of things equally worthless. These are placed in a room by themselves, without shelving; but we do not sell any, and we could not of ourselves do so, because our brethren in the other College have the same property in the books that we have. Do you not think it would be an advantageous thing, if novels and such books were sold, and the produce laid out in the purchase of other books?-I remember being one of a minority in the Society, who were of opinion, when the Act was changed, that instead of sending down every book to us, or rather, as it has turned out, of sending in general what is bad, and retaining what is good, it would have been better if the Legislature had given us a certain sum annually, and made us exhibit an account of what we purchased; and I still think it would be better for us to get a compensation for all the worthless publications received, under condition of exhibiting every year the accounts of respectable booksellers, of books purchased to that amount. But the selling of any of our books might subject us to disagreeable imputations. Do the University employ an agent to procure for them the books to which they are |