By REV. E. MACQUEEN.
WE have received during the past year several Legacies, the total of which amounts to £4,147 16s.
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The first Legacy was received from the Executors of the late Rev. N. Cameron, being a sum bequeathed for the Schemes of the Church by the late Mr. Angus Fraser, Missionary, amounting to £103 8s. 8d.; of this sum £50 was placed to the credit of the General Building Fund and the balance of £53 8s. 8d., to the Jewish and Foreign Mission Fund.
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A Legacy of £150 was received from the Executors of the late Mrs. A. Mackay, Helmsdale, of which £100 was bequeathed to the Sustentation Fund and £50 to the Jewish and Foreign Missions Fund.
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The sum of £50 was received from the Rev. R. Mackenzie, Glasgow, being a Legacy left to the Church by the late Mrs.
Mackenzie, Udrigle, Ross-shire, to be placed to such Fund or Funds of the Church as the Synod may determine.
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The Rev. D. R. Macdonald, Tarbert, Harris, placed in our hands the sum of £50, in memory of the late Mrs. Macdonald, Tarbert, which sum has been credited to the Funds of the Church on behalf of the Tarbert Congregation.
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A Legacy of £100 has been received from the Executors of the late Mr. James Ross, retired farmer, Watten, Caithness, in terms of his Will: this sum is bequeathed to the Jewish and Foreign Missions.
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The following large Legacies have been received during the past year from the Estates of two sisters, the first received was from the Trustee on the Estate of Miss Catherine Mackintosh, late of Inverness and for many years connected with our London Congregation, then known as the London Mission. In terms of her Will Miss Mackintosh bequeathed the residue of her Estate to the Church, amounting to £2,532 15s. 4d., of which one half is bequeathed to the Jewish and Foreign Missions Fund and one half to our London Mission.
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Miss Margaret Mackintosh, Union Road, Inverness, sister of the above Miss Catherine Mackintosh died two months after the death of her sister; she also bequeathed the Residue of her Estate to the Funds of the Church, amounting to £1,161 12s., this sum is meantime held on Deposit Receipt to await the Synod’s instructions as to the Fund or Funds to be credited with same.
As already stated the total of the foregoing Legacies amounts to £4,147 16s.