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tion made by the said principal and four professors for the time... shall by them be judged most worthy, by the following proportions viz.: eighteen pounds to the first, sixteen pounds to the second, fourteen pounds to the third, and twelve pounds to the fourth, . . . .. ranking the four according to merit. And the same number of students shall be drawn in the same manner, and to have the same allowance in every succeeding year, the allowance ceasing at the conclusion of the fourth year after such students. . . appointment, the course of study being four years, until the total number of students amount to forty-eight and by rotation to be kept up to that number; . . . and at the expiration of the course in the fourth year there shall be paid a sum not less than twenty pounds as a præmium to the most meritorious of the four students who have completed their course And I hereby direct that as to any savings of the income of the trust the said surplus . . . shall be annually added to the capital and laid out... to increase the income during the term of twenty one years after my decease;. .. and at the end of the said term the income of the trust estate shall be imployed.. in maintaining the said establishment in

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the kings college . . . till the students amount to the number of fortyeight, divided into classes of four in each class as aforesaid; in paying to the said principal and four professors for the time annually. . . such sum as my said trustees shall think fitt for the general use of the college, but not exceeding the sum of eighty pounds per annum; and lastly, any surplus there may be . . . from the income of the said trust fund shall be employed by my said trustees, at their discretion, for the promoting of learning in any of the seminaries of Great Britain or Ireland; . . . and I declare that the said principal and four professors shall have it in their power to deprive any student, . . . in case such student shall by them be deemed unworthy on account of any gross irregularity of behaviour, particularly habitual idleness or want of attention. . . And I doe hereby direct that . . . the said principal and four professors . . shall draw up. . . regulations for the management of the institution, . . . and in framing such regulations they shall pay regard to the following recommendations:

In the first place, The students to be admitted shall be virtuous youths, natives of the British empire.

Secondly, No person shall be admitted a candidate . . . who has not attained the age of fourteen years complete.

Thirdly, A time shall be fixed for giving previous notice of the day of

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as near as can be to the commencement of the college

Fourthly, A strict examination shall be made respecting the qualification of candidates, and the most deserving shall be admitted into the different classes, in proportion to their acquirement in the knowledge of the Latin and Greek classics, and of the elementary branches of the mathematics, without any distinction except on the score of merit.

Fifthly, Regulations are to be made respecting the due attendance of the students at the college, which ought to be close, . . . and no excuse ought to be allowed for neglect of this sort except in case of sickness or any unavoidable accident

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Sixthly, Proper instructions shall be framed to regulate the studies of the students during the vacation times, and to ascertain the improvement made by . ... them during vacation at the commencement of the ensuing session, taking notes of the result of such examination every year, from which notes the said principal and four professors may determine to whom the prize of merit is to be given. But one or more of the said principal and four professors, or of the other members of the university, or of a majority of the candidates, may demand a public examination . . . on any convenient day as near as can be to the end of that session, and the decision of the said principal and four professors. . . to be final. . .

A printed copy of the regulations shall be given to every student on his admission.

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As it is not intended to fill up vacancies which may happen by death ill behaviour or other cause, a saving will arise to the trust estate which may provide for the annual prize of merit, which I wish may never be less than twenty pounds nor ever exceed fifty pounds, the competition for which to open to all who benefit by this institution when they have finished their course They of the same standing of kings college may be admitted as candidates on paying. a small sum not less than five shillings nor exceeding ten shillings. Students of the same standing from the Marischal college... may be admitted as candidates on paying a sum not less than ten shillings nor exceeding twenty shillings. . . In the last place, I direct that... this codicil be printed, and copies thereof delivered to every student admitted to the benefit of this institution . . . In witness whereof, I have to . . . these presents put my hand and seal, this twenty first day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and one.

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Geo. Hutton.

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155. I Robert Findlay minister of the gospel at Clatt . . . bequeath . bequeath . . . the principal sum of fifteen hundred pounds to . . . Alexander Moir of Scotstown allotting and mortifying five hundred pounds of said principal augmented with one hundred pounds more out of my other moveable subjects, for the particular purpose of founding and supporting three bursaries at kings college, towards which I appoint thirty pounds sterling to be annually paid by him his heirs and successors for maintaining and educating three students during the usual term and course of four years. at philosophy and languages, and two years more for the study of theology or medicine, as circumstances of students may require. And I farther appoint the patronage and presentation to said bursaries to be vested in . . . the heirs and representatives of said family, with this provision, that candidates of the sirnames of Moir, Garioch, and Gordon, if related to the patron or mortifier, be preferred before others, next after them sons of clergymen members of the Aberdeen synod; lastly, sons of residenters in the parish of Clatt of the sirnames of Booth, Barclay, Hay, Wilson, such especially whose progenitors were inhabitants during the space of my personal ministry there, and can be certified from the registers of said parish . . . In testimony of all which, these presents . . . are subscribed by me at Cromblet house upon the 22 day of October 1804.

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Robt. Findlay.

156. In the year 1808 Dr. John Milne at Bombay remitted money to England for the purpose of defraying annually the expence of the apprentice fee and infirmary dues of a student in medicine, to be selected by the professors of the four regular classes from the students in the magistrand class at kings college. In December 1808 six hundred pounds sterling were received by the common procurator of kings college, to bear an annual rent of four and a-half per cent., in order to defray the expense of this institution. By further instructions Dr. Milne appointed the professor of medicine in the college the nominator of the medical instructor to be selected for this bursar, and directed that any surplus on the fund should be used for supplying the student with surgical instruments.

Letter from H. Macleod announcing the establishment of a bursary.

157. To the Rev. Dr. Macleod principal of kings college.

My dear sir,-You know that I have been many years ago talking of a little establishment of a scholarship or bursar ever since the great foundation of the laird of Cadboll failed by his own much lamented demise . . My intention is furthwith to remit to your college two hundred pounds sterling as a capital fund for the maintenance of a scholar annually at the kings college and university for ever, and do entrust the said sum entirely to the admistration and management of the principal and professors of the said kings college . upon the following conditions:

1st, That every such scholar. . . shall be of the sirname of Macleod,

and that every candidate for the benefit of this foundation be duly certified by the parish minister or other respectable authority, and by his schoolmaster, as not only being of the name of Macleod, but also of being a boy of good dispositions and promising parts for literature, with this following exception alone, viz:

2nd, That any descendant of Æneas Roy Macleod formerly of Ardmore in Coigach, either by the male or female line, being always of the name of Macleod, shall be preferred in every case, provided always that they be habile

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3rd, That every scholar. . . shall . . . enjoy the benefit during full four years, and be... subject to the whole discipline and regulations present or future of the said college

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5th, That in case of a competion of candidates the college shall determine the most deserving . . . I have the honour to be, . . . with my most devout wishes for the prosperity of your university,

My dear sir,

Your ever affectionate and faithful friend,

Glasgow college, 10 March, 1806.

H. Macleod.

Will of the Reverend James Stuart.

158. I the Reverend James Stuart formerly rector of George town and All saints South Carolina, and chaplain to the king's rangers in North America,

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do make this my last will and testament . . . I direct my ecutors to sell out five thousand pounds three per cent. consols . . . To the magistrates of Aberdeen . . . I give one fifth (part thereof) for the use and benefit of kings college in the university of Aberdeen, and . . . the other fifth in trust and for the use and benefit of Marischall college in the said university of Aberdeen; and to apply the interest of the said two fifths respectively from time to time for ever, in and towards the instruction and better education of youth as to the principals and others having powers vested in them by charter or otherwise, shall seem meet. And I direct that any young man of the name of Stuart, who may be educated at either of the said universities, shall always be preferred to any others . . . I direct my executors . . . to pay unto the masters, or others having the government of the academies at Banff and Fordyce, six hundred pounds sterling each . . . and to apply the interest for the instruction and education of any young man of the name of Stuart, and if none of that name shall offer, then to any young man of the name of Simpson, . . . and . . . such young men shall be educated five years at the said academies, and removed from the academy at Fordyce to the Marischall college of Aberdeen for four years, and from the Banff academy to the kings college Aberdeen for four years, and the interest applied by the said colleges for the benefit of such young men during their continuance at college, and so from time to time as any vacancy shall happen thereafter at either of the said academies

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May the third 1809.

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James Stuart.

Extract from the trust disposition and settlement of James Middleton dyer at Steps of Gilcomston.

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159. In the fourth place I appoint my trustees to pay to the principal and professors of kings college Old Aberdeen, the sum of one hundred pounds sterling to remain under their management, and the interest thereof to be paid yearly to a student of said university in all time thereafter; those of the name of Middleton and Sim to be preferred if properly recommended. Dated 27 July 1810.

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