same, and of the cupola and bell, inscription stones on the walls, and the chimney frame of the hall, all which they specially reserve and retain '. "After several proposals it was arranged that the foundation ceremony take place on Tuesday, 18th October. The Duke of Richmond [now Chancellor] engaged to attend, and a committee of gentlemen of all parties was formed to arrange about a dinner and procession. A foundation stone presented, on which Provost Blaikie's name was to be inscribed, and he, assisted by the Masonic bodies, was to preside at laying the stone. All was postponed for a year by the Provost's death, which happened suddenly on Monday, October 3rd, as he was passing the threshold of the Town House; the disease an overloading of the heart with fat; age 51. Dying in office, there was a public funeral on the 11th, a meeting in the County Rooms on the 14th for a monument (which became a statue placed in the vestibule of the East Church), a funeral sermon on the 16th. 1837. "The public celebration was not revived till autumn of next year. The Masonic and other public bodies, who had been disappointed of using the paraphernalia, which they had purchased last year, began to move in it about August; the Professors could have no objection. Sept. 25. 18th October fixed on, with approval of the Duke. "Oct. 2. All subscribers invited to join the procession. "Oct. 5. The inscription to be inscribed on a brass plate to be placed in the foundation stone, agreed to: ANNVENTE SVMMO NVMINE QVVM AEDES COLLEGII ET ACADEMIAE MARISCHALLANAE ABERDONENSIS IAM DIV INCOMMODAE VETVSTATE TANDEM LABERENTVR NOVI HVIVS AEDIFICII ET AD VSVM ET AD VENVSTATEM APTI IN QVO LITERARVM ET PHILOSOPHIAE STVDIA AD PROMOVENDAM PIETATEM VIRTVTEM ANIMIQVE CVLTVм ACCOMMODATA PRIMVM LAPIDEM POSVIT VIR NOBILISSIMVS CAROLVS RICHMONDIAE ET LEVINIAE DVX XV. KAL. NOVEMBR. ANNO SALVTIS HVMANAE M.DCCC.XXX.VII. VIRI IN SENATVM BRITANNICVM A CIVIBVS SVIS ABERDONENSIBVS LECTI LIBERALITATE TAM CONCILII PVBLICI HVIVS VRBIS QVAM MVLTORVM PRIVATORVM AVT BONIS LITERIS FAVEBANT ACADEMIAE CANCELLARIO VIRO NOBILISSIMO CAROLO RICHMONDIAE ET LEVINIAE DVCE RECTORE VIRO HONORATISSIMO IOANNE LYNDHVRSTIAE BARONE DECANO FACVLTATIS ALEXANDRO BANNERMAN SENATORE BRITANNICO GYMNASIARCHA DANIELE DEWAR SS.T.D. ET LL.D. VRBIS PRAEFECTO IACOBO MILNE ARMIGERO ARCHITECTO ARCHIBALDO SIMPSON ABERDONENSI OPERIS REDEMTORE ALEXANDRO RAINNIE "Oct. 12. The gentlemen of King's College refuse to walk or to dine gratis, as was offered them on the 2nd. "A medal was put in hand, Middleton Rettie sending to Birmingham to have it executed. It bore on one side a fine view of the new College Founded 1593, rebuilt 1837'; and on the other a short English inscription. "Oct. 18. The ceremony lasted an hour. The clock, not having been wound up, stopped during the speeches, but was set agoing again. The dinner was in the County Hall at five o'clock, and the Hall was crammed. All went on well: forty-three toasts. None of the King's College professors were present but Dr. Jack. The Earl of Aberdeen, their Chancellor, made several ironical and severe remarks in reference to that body. 1838. "The central pile rose this year to its full elevation, the Tower excepted, of which only the foundations were laid. The roofs of the Hall, Library, and Museum were completed in November. 1839. "The Arcades in front of the central pile began to be raised to their full height of two stories. And the Central Tower gradually advanced, till at the end of the year it wanted only the range of pannelled stones and the four turrets at the corners. The S. wing was taken down, and the new S. wing so advanced as to be roofed in in November. The old windows were sold at good prices as relics. 1841. "The Lords of the Treasury, having been satisfied, from an examination by their agent, that the sum of £21,000 had been expended, ordered the accrued interest, amounting to £5853 9s. 2d. to be paid to the same Commissioners, by means of which they were enabled nearly to complete the building." [June 3. 1844. Mr. Simpson reports the completion of the works in terms of the Contract. July 11. Mr. Rainnie grants to the Commissioners for Rebuilding the College, a Discharge for the full payment of the Contract price; recorded in Burgh Court Books, July 13. TTT 1845. Nov. 1. The Chancellor, Rector, Dean of Faculty, Principal and Professors, grant a final Discharge to the Commissioners homologating their whole actions and intromissions; recorded same day. The Commissioners present Dr. Cruickshank with a silver salver "as a testimonial of the sense entertained by the Commissioners of the many important and valuable gratuitous services rendered by him in promoting the rebuilding of the College". Appended is a brief abstract of the Charge and Discharge : -Minute Book of Commissioners in Mar. Coll. Ch. Room.] CXXXV. Mrs. Josephine Booth or Launie, by her last will and testament, bequeaths £500 to the Principal and Professors for the maintenance of two bursars. 10th December, 1834. In the fourth place to the Principal and Professors of Marischal College and University of Aberdeen the sum of Five hundred pounds Sterling for the foundation and endowment of two Philosophy Bursaries in that College to be in the gift of my said Trustees and to be bestowed by them on such deserving youth as they shall think proper. Boys of the surname of Booth being always to be preferred if otherwise eligible From the excerpt transmitted to Professor Cruickshank by Mr. Smith of Glenmillan in his letter of 28th January, 1839 (Mar. Coll. Ch. Room).* CXXXVI. Parliament repeals in part the provisions of the Act of 1709 (LXXXVII.). 20th August, 1836. Whereas by an Act passed in the Fifty fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third intituled An Act to amend the several Acts for the Encouragement of Learning by securing the Copies and Copyright of Printed Books to the Authors of such Books or their Assigns, it is among other Things enacted that Eleven Copies of every published Book shall be gratuitously delivered to Eleven Public Libraries named in the said Act: And whereas the Provisions of the said Act have in certain respects operated to the Injury of Authors and Publishers, and have in some Cases checked or prevented the Publication of Works of great Utility and Importance, and it is therefore expedient that the said Act should be amended: Be it * Mr. Smith states that Mrs. Launie died "more than a year ago," and that the Trustees under her will are Bishop Skinner, Charles Winchester, Advocate, Aberdeen, and James Forbes of the Excise Office, Campbeltown, Argyll. The settlement seems to have become the subject of litigation (College Minutes for 16th Nov., 1839). The Commissioners of 1858 report (iv. 267) a capital of £574 17s. 6d., and the current Calendar gives the bursaries as two of £7 10s. each or thereby. therefore enacted That so much of the said recited Act as requires that a Copy of every Book which shall be printed and published shall be delivered in manner therein mentioned to the Warehouse Keeper of the Company of Stationers for the use of the Library of Sion College, the Libraries of the Four Universities of Scotland, and the King's Inn's Library at Dublin, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer or for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, from Time to Time to issue and pay out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Person or Persons or Body Politic or Corporate, Proprietors or Managers of each of the aforesaid Libraries, Such an annual Sum as may be equal in Value and a Compensation for the Loss which any Such Library may sustain by reason of the said Act being repealed, so far as relates to such Library; such annual Compensation to be ascertained and determined according to the Value of the Books which may have been actually received by each such Library, in such Manner as the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury or any Three or more of them shall direct, upon an Average of the Three Years ending the Thirtieth Day of June One Thousand eight hundred and thirty six. III. And be it further enacted, That the Person or Persons or Body Politic or Corporate, Proprietors or Managers of the Library for the use whereof any such Book would have been delivered, shall and they are hereby required to apply the annual Compensation hereby authorised to be made in the Purchase of Books of Literature, Science and the Arts, for the use of and to be kept and preserved in such Library: Provided always, that it shall not be lawful for the said Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to direct the Issue of any Sum of Money for Such annual Compensation until sufficient Proof shall have been adduced before him or them of the Application of the Money last issued to the Purpose aforesaid. Act 6 and 7 William IV., Cap. 110.* * The original Bill introduced into Parliament by Mr. Buckingham differed in toto from the Act, and proposed to give a definite sum of £3000 to ten of the eleven privileged libraries in lieu of their rights-apportioned thus : |