Report of law committee under remit of the Parochial Board of the city parish of Edinburgh anent the Board's right to poorhouse grounds, and to other grants and mortifications for the use of the poor.

Date:
1861
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Credit: Report of law committee under remit of the Parochial Board of the city parish of Edinburgh anent the Board's right to poorhouse grounds, and to other grants and mortifications for the use of the poor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    its institution in 1740 till the present remit, a few facts only in addition remain to be stated, bearing on the transactions of the old administra- tions with the united property. p _ « By the contract in 1740, all the poors' funds were appropriated to the New Charity Workhouse, including therein the ' annual rents of sumB ' of money, and rents of houses and shops mortified for the use of the poor ' On 2d May 1750, the Council' having had under consideration the present state of the hospital, called St Paul's Work, founded by Sir Thomas Spence, Bishop of Aberdeen, anno 1479, who then morti- fied several houses and grounds annual for the support thereof, and also - that Mr Robert Johnston, Doctor of Laws at London, did legate and ' bequeath to the Council in perpetuity the sum of £1000 sterling of capital ' stock, and the inhabitants of Edinburgh did largely contribute, and several others made donations, all for the charitable purpose of train- ing up the young, poor, and indigent of the city to industry, the interest of which mortification and contribution has been hitherto applied by the Council for the ends above mentioned ; and the Council also having had under consideration a memorial for the Managers of the Chanty Workhouse, concerning their training up such number of orphans, male or female, within the said workhouse, as the foresaid funds of - Paul's Work shall be able to maintain and educate ; and the Council, ' iudsinff from the experience they have of the good management of the ' said workhouse, that this fund, in their hands, under the direction < after-mentioned, is more probable to answer the good design ot the « donors than it has hitherto done, while in the hands of private under- ' takers, therefore disponed, for seven years from Mftinmas 1748, < the whole annual revenue of the said hospital, called St Paul s AVork, ' and of the other conjoined funds in use to be paid thereto, to the Charity Workhouse Treasurer, to keep 'twenty such children as are < entitled to the City of Edinburgh Charity, to be lodged in separate < wards, educated separately from the other poor children,-wear a « different dress, and to be called the Children of Paul s Work. On 27th June 1750, intimation by order of the Council was made, « by the precentors of this city on Sabbath next, that the Council have < conveyed the funds of Paul's Work to the Treasurer of the Charity « Workhouse, for the space of seven years, for the maintenance, clothing, < and education of the children of decayed burgesses; any such who have ' children may apply to ye Council, in order to their being admitted On 26th August 1752, the Council having reported on the account of stock and revenue of Paul's Work Hospital ordered the Jabnce of £4 12s. 10d., due by the treasurer, to be paid to Mr James Stirling, present treasurer of7Paul's Work, for behoof thereof/ That; the stock handed over by old treasurer amounted, m bonds and cash to £cJ215, for which they ordered a city bond to be granted 'in favour of Mr 'Stirling and7 his successors'^ office, for behoof of the s«d M « Work,' and that the following bonds be also dehvered to him, that he might recover payment of the contents, viz.— 'Bond by deceased James Syme, solicitor, for 1000nrnerks < Bond by David Earl of Buchan, and Mr Charles Erskme,for £50 « sterling, whereon interest is due since Martinmas 1748, besides what 1 mav be due to former contractors, and ' Bond by David Hay of Naughton, for 1000 merks, which is ' irrecoverable.'