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APPENDIX. 57
AGRICULTURAL.
Lower Ward of Renfrewshire Agricultural Society— Established
1849. — Annual exhibition of live stock and dairy ^jroduce will take
place this year in the field at the back of the Academy in June. Sir
Michael Robert Shaw Stewart, of Ardgowan and Blackball, Bart.,
patron ; Duncan Darroch, Esq. of Gourock, president ; Horatio R. B.
Peile, Esq., vice-president; James Laird, Berrj^yards, treasurer; D.
L. Macadam, Mansion-house, secretary.
BENEFIT AND FRIENDLY.
Clyde Shipmasters' Provident Association -^ Instituted 1852. —
James J. Grieve, M.P., president; T. O. Hunter, vice-president;
John Cvinningham, treasurer and secretaiy ; Duncan Cuiminghani,
assistant secretary ; with a committee of twelve members ; A. Leisk,
ofiicer ; Secretary's office, 32 Cathcart Street.
Buchanan Bequest. — By Codicil and Deed of Foundation, dated
4th December, 1862, Mr James Campbell Buchanan, of Bagatelle,
Greenock, bequeathed £4000 in trust to his Trustees, viz.: — Messrs
John Graham, Peter M'Naughton, Colin Lamont, jun,, James Reid,
Thomas Oliphant Hunter, and William Clark, in conjunction with Mr
Alexander Rodger, the Provost of Greenock, the Sheriff- Substitute at
Greenock, and the President of Greenock Seamen's Friends' Society,
all for the time being, along with two or more persons to be appointed
by the Town Council and Police Board, for the purpose of founding
' ' an Asylum in Greenock, to afford shelter during night to poor per-
sons without a home, and to supj)ly them with a nourishing meal on
entering and leaving the Asylum." In terms of the Codicil, the Town
Council and Police Board are appointed Trustees of the Asylum. A
building is now erected in Captain Street, in which persons are ac-
commodated according to the testator's wishes.
Scott Bequest. — By will, dated 8th January, 1836, Mr William
Scott, of St Andrew's, New Brunswick, bequeathed the residue of his
estate in trust ' ' to the Provost and Magistrates for the time being, as
also the two clergymen of the east and west parishes of his father's
native town of Gi-eenock," for "the endowment of a school for the
maintenance and education of as many indigent orphan children to be
instructed in English reading and grammar, together with writing,
arithmetic, and a few of the plain branches of rtaathematics." Mr
Scott died in 1838, but the estates have not yet been completely
realised. The Trustees have on hand about £4000. An institution
has now been endowed, of which Mr George Wylie, the Duff -Scripture
Reader, is superintendent, and Mrs Wylie, matron. Several admis-
sions have been made of indigent orphan children, and the Institution
is nowin full working order.
Carpnters' Benevolent Society — Meets in the Trades' Hall, Cath-
cart Street.
Greenock Friendly Funeral Society— Instituted 1824 --John Bell,
preses; John M'Neilage, jun., treasurer; Duncan Gilmour, secretary;
John Fraser, officer. Monthly meetings are held on the third Thurs-
day of January, April, Jwlj, and October. This Society has for its
object the assistance of relatives of deceased members, and the pay-
ment of all funeral expenses. Entry money, 6s.
Legal Burial Society— James Hood, agent, 24 Bank Street ; John
M'Dougall, referee.