General Report of the Commissioners Under the Universities (Scotland) ACT, 1889; With Appendix Containing Ordinances, Minutes, Correspondence, Evidence (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...a bursary on the foundation of Alexander Mitchell, Writer to the Signet, of date in or about the year seventeen hundred and twenty-three, which is in the patronage of Livingston Learmonth of Parkhall; and a bursary, also in the Faculty of Arts, on the foundation of James Shortt, Optician, London, of date in or about the year seventeen hundred and sixty-eight, which is in the patronage of the Earl of Morton: And whereas the value of the bursaries on the said two foundations is now very small, and it appears to the Commissioners under the said Act that the interests of learning and the main design of the donors would be better advanced by an alteration of the conditions and directions affecting the said two foundations in manner hereinafter provided: Therefore the Commissioners under the said Act statute and ordain, with regard to the said foundations in the University of Edinburgh, as follows: --I. The said bursary on the foundation of Alexander Mitchell, and the said bursary on the foundation of James Shortt shall hereafter be conjoined into one bursary, to be called the Mitchell and Shortt Bursary, and the holder of the said Mitchell and Shortt Bursary shall receive the free annual income of the said two foundations. II. No appointment to the said bursary on the foundation of Alexander Mitchell alone, or to the said bursary on the foundation of James Shortt alone, shall hereafter be made for the same period of tenure as heretofore; but in the event of the said existing bursaries not falling vacant at the same time, the patron of the bursary which shall first fall vacant, whom failing the Senatus Academicus, may select a deserving student to hold it during the unexpired period of the tenure of the other bursary, or may allow the same to remain vacant, and th..