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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
CLAN MACKAY SOCIETY.
The objects of the society shall be the fostering
and preserving of clan sentiment ; the cultivation of
social intercourse among the members ; the rendering
of assistance to deserving clansmen ; the encourage-
ment of education ; and the collecting and preserving
of records and traditions bearing on the history of
the clan. The society shall consist of persons bearing
the surname Mackay ; shall be called "The Clan
Mackay Society ; " and shall be non-political and
non- sectarian. The membership is of three classes,
viz., life members, who shall make one payment of
£3 3s. ; extraordinary members, 10s. 6d. ; and
ordinary members, 2s. 6d. annually. The ordinary
meetings are held in the Christian Institute, Bothwell
Street, on the third Thursday of April, November,
January, and March.
Office-bearers for session 1889-90 : — Chief, His
Excellency Sir Donald James Mackay, Lord Reay,
G.C.I.E., D.C.L., Governor of Bombay; president,
John Mackay, C.E., J.P.. Hereford ; vice-presidents.
Sheriff Jineas J. G. Mackay, M.A., LL.D., and
Dr. George Mackay, F.R.C.S.E., Edinburgh, Alex-
ander and Charles Mackay, Glasgow, Captain James
JIackay, Wiltshire, and Wm. Mackay, chief magistrate,
Thurso ; secretary, John Mackay, 93 Dundas Street,
Kingston ; assistant- secretary, Alex. E. Mackay, 12
Graham St., Lauriston, Edinburgh; treasurer, J. W.
Mackay, Bank of Scotland, Glasgow.
THE ST. GEORGE'S BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
IN SCOTLAND.
Patron, The Earl of Glasgow; directors, Geo. Lowe,
Esq., Chas. C. Mowbray, Esq., Rev. A. T. Pullin, B.A.;
treasurer, F. D. Rait, Esq., 34 Buchanan St. ; secy.,
Henry Ferry, Esq., 89 Bath Street; solicitor,
James Muirhead, Esq., 54 West Nile Street ; hon-
orary physician, Dr. Wood Smith.
The society was instituted in the year 1844, and
has for its objects the assistance of English people in
poor circumstances, resident in Scotland, more espe-
cially the assisting the return to England of families
no longer able or likely to obtain maintenance else-
where. The membership consists of Englishmen, or
the children of English parents or parent, or the
husbands of English wives, and in order to qualify
for membership, a donation of not less than £3 3s.,
or an annual subscription of not less than 10s. 6d.
is necessaiy. The rules provide for an annual
meeting of the society being held on St. George's
Day, when the office-bearers for the ensuing year are
elected. Since its institution, the society has been
the means of doing much good, and the accumulated
funds now amount to between £700 and j£800,
GLASGOW ELDERS' WIVES AND DAUGH-
TERS' ASSOCIATION, IN CONNECTION
WITH THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, OR
HOME FOR GIRLS.
13 Canning Place.
This association was started twenty-eight years ago,
and its chief work is training orphan and destitute
girls as domestic servants in the Home. Income
from subscriptions, about £350. Chairman, ex-Pre-
ceptor Wilson ; secretaiy, Rev. E. Walters, M'Leod
Pai'ish Church; treasurer, Thomas Watson, Esq., 50
West Regent Street.
THE MARSHALL TRUST.
This endowment is constituted under the scheme of
the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act, 1882,
and the free income is applied in awarding free
scholarships, industrial- training bursaries, higher
education bursaries, advanced evening class scholar- .
ships, and university bursaries, and in certain
circumstances for the material assistance of children
educated under the scheme. The children selected
must reside in the counties of Lanark or Stirling,,
and are required to attend a public or state-aided ,
school within said counties, and must be "orphans- ■
or fatherless, or children whose parents or relations,
not being in receipt of parochial relief, are unable to
clothe, educate, and mainiain them, and ought not,
in the opinion of the governors, to be required to-
apply to the parochial board for such aid, provided
always that no grants shall be given where the total
income of the parents exceeds £70 per annum."
Factor, Archd. Foulds, 74 Bath street ; clerk, James
Alexander, 194 West George street; superintendent,,
Wm. Mitchell, 134 Wellington street.
INCORPORATION OF MALTMEN, GLASGOW.
Office-bearers for 1889-90 :— Visitor, T. W. W-
Flint, 397 Sauchiehall St. ; last visitor, John Steel?
of Springbank, Stirling; collector, Andw. M'Nain
27 Oswald St.; last collector. Bailie Jas. M'Lennan?.
42 St. Andrew's Street; master court, Andrew M-
Bayne, Wm. Cherry, M. M. W. Baird, Robert Robin?
Robert Ferguson, Charles Macdonald Williamson?
George Heriot, and James Menzies ; clerk. Franc '
Gibb Dougall, writer, 167 Canning St. ; officer, Jas,
Reid, 76 Armadale Street.
THE CLYDE INDUSTRIAL TRAINING SHIP
" EMPRESS."
Stationed at Row, Gaeeloch.
President, John Burns, Esq., of Castle Wemyss ;
executive committee — chairman, Thomas Henderson ;
deputy-chairman, R. Bennett Browne ; James Aitken,,
Alex. Allan, Robert Chrystal, R. H. Dunn, George
Gray, Captain John Hardie, A. C. Henderson, Richai-d
Kidston, J. Burns Macbrayne, E. S. ^lacharg, Capt.
William Meiklereid, William Newton, Glasgow, W. 0.
Leitch, Greenock; secretary, George Gray, County
Buildings ; treasurer, E. S. IMacharg, Herald Build-
ings, Buchanan Street.
M 'ALPINE'S MORTIFICATION.
Founded in 1811 by Mrs. M'Alpine, who conveyed
to trustees her property for the maintenance of poor
men and women of the description given in her will
— the former receiving annually £10, and the latter
£6. The trustees are the Deacon Convener and the
Ministers of eight of the Established Churches.
D. & A. Cuthbertson, Provan, & Strong, C.A.,
110 West George Street, factors.
EWING BEQUESTS.
Founded in 1860 by James Ewing of Strathleven.
The total amount of the bequests is £30,000, of which
£16,500, less legacy duty, has been paid. The in-
come is divisible — one-third among decayed Glasgow
merchants, one-third in educating, &c., their sons,
and the remaining one-third among their widows
and daughters. Income at present, about £660.
Patrons, The Merchants' House.