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being Made for the Goverment of the Said Court
by the Nine Trades or Majority of them
The General fund not as Yet having Got the Interdict
Removed – they Cannot Intermitte with the funds
there of – in the Division of the Money for the poor
in the Usual Way This Meeting Anxious for the
Wellfare of the poor and Unwilling that they Should be
Sufferers for the Said process agree to pay
the Decay’d Members & Widows their A[?]ment
As Usual taking the Risk of the General fund
on themselves And Orders the Deacon & Boxmaster
to pay them as follows viz
James Dick Senr £2 – Widows Wilson, Duncan
Robertson, Anderson, Reid, Fife, Strachan, W. Smith,
F McDonald, Dick, G Smith, Ogilvie, Two Pounds
Each – Mrs McDonald 15/ – Mrs Ogilvie Hilltown 5/ –
Agnes ^Anderson^ – 2/ – Margaret Black 5/ – Mrs Kinnear 10/
Cathraine Smith 5/ – in all £28 . 11/ –
It Was Also Ordered to pay Mr James Watson
Mercht £25 . 4 . 10 – being on Account of Some informali
=tys in the Conveyances to the property purchased by
him from the Tailor Trade – At Same time
Mr Adamson is Desired to procecute Mess^rs^
Lowry & Beamston for the Said Sum it being
Due from as the Conveyance to the Trade from
them was of Course Incomplete
Thomas Malcom Dea