Reports regarding practicability of giving instruction to female students within the wards of the Royal Infirmary.

Date:
[1872?]
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Credit: Reports regarding practicability of giving instruction to female students within the wards of the Royal Infirmary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    22 of my said last-mentioned personal estate at the sight, and with privity and approbation of the Prineipal and Professors of tlie said University for the time being as may be for that purpose deemed neeessary, in such way and manner as will most effec- tually establish and perpetually secure a fund for the endow- ment of a Professorship of Music as aforesaid, and the mainte- nance in all time thereafter in the said University of a Professor of the Tlieory of Music,—an art and science in which the Scots stand unrivalled by all the neighbouring nations in pastoral melody and sweet combination of sounds. And my Avill and meaning is, that in the event of the establishment of such Pro- fessorship as aforesaid, the Principal and Professors of the said University do and shall, within six months next after such an event shall have taken place, by a public ordinance of the Uni- versity, make a declaration of what, in their estimation, the annual and perpetual salary to be allowed to such Professor of ]\Iusic ought to amount to, the same not being less than £300.” By a codicil, dated 4th March 1806, General Reid ordered a Concert to be performed every year on 13th February, being the anniversary of his birth-day, the expenses to be defrayed out of the Trust funds. General Reid’s daughter died in June 1838, at which time his estate consisted of:— Consols all falling to the Principal and Professors, . . £73,590 12 0 Less the sum before specified, as excepted fi-om the bequest iu their favour, ...... 1,400 0 0 72,190 12 0 General Reid’s Trustees paid higacy-duty and expenses of administration partly irom the dividends accrued after June 1838, and partly by selling stock to the amount of . 3,313 13 9 And in July 1840 they transferred to the Principal and Pro- fessors the balance of the stock, .... ^08,876 18 3 This balance was sold by the Senatus in 1840, 41, and 42. After the Fund had been for some years in the hands of the Senatus, various legal questions were brought before the Court of Session, as the Senatus are aware, relative to the rights of the Principal and Professors as General Reid’s Trustees, and of the Magistrates and Council as Patrons of the University, in