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APPENDIX. 87
not incurable, may require months or years of nursing and treatment,
and are incapable of earning a livelihood.
Buchanan Night Asylum.— By Codicil and Deed of Foundation,
dated 4th December, 1862, Mr James Campbell Buchanan of Baga-
telle, (jreenock, l^equeathed ;!^4000 in trust of his Trustees, viz. : — Messrs
John Graham, Peter M'Naughton, Colin Lamont, jun., James Keid,
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 at Greenock to afford shelter during night to poor persons-
without a home and to supply 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 accommodated
according to the testator's wishes. Louson Walker, secretary and
treasurer, 33 Cathcart Street.
House of Refuge, or Shelter for Females, Ingleston— Instituted 1853
—Mrs James Reid, president; Miss Mary Hunter, vice-president;
John Cunningham, secretary and treasurer; Rev. Mr Struthers, chaplain;
and a committee of ladies and gentlemen ; Mrs Oakden, matron.
The object of this institution is to afford shelter to fallen females,
training them for the duties of the household, and to assist in getting
them into service with respectable families. The industries prosecuted
in the Home are mainly laundry and needle work.
Greenock Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society — This society was
instituted in 1872, for the purpose of rendering aid to discharged
prisoners, or those on their way to prison life. The Home for the
Reception of Females, at 58 Ann Street, was opened on the loth
February, 1873. Miss Macbeth, matron. The inmates receive the
benefit of religious instruction, and are expected to earn their own
livelihood at the Hc^me, by the exercise of such industries for which
they may be suited. When reformed, the Committee procure situations
or work for the inmates either at home or abroad. The society is
supported by voluntary subscriptions. Sheriff Nicolson, president ;
Abram Lyle, Esq., and James Morton, Fsq., vice-presidents; John
Rodger, Esq., secretary ; "Rev. John F. Macpherson, B.D., chaplain.
There is a committee of gentlemen and also of ladies, with a stafil of
prison and district visitors. Mrs Colm S. Caird, president ; Mrs
Abram Lyle, vice-president ; Mrs Duncan Cunningham, secretary ; and
Miss Rodger, treasurer to ladies' committee.
FREEMASONS.
PRO GRAND LODGE RENFREWSHIRE WEST.
Sir Michael R. Shaw Stewart, Bart. (No. 12), R.W.P.G.M.
Commissioned office-bearers— Michael Hugh Shaw Stewart (No. 12),
D.P.Cj.M.; James Reid, (No. 175), S.P.G.M.; David J, Dunlop
(No. 68), P.G.S.W. ; Duncan Cunningham (No. 12), P.G.J.W. ;
Rev. Archibald Fullarton (No, 12), F.G. chaplain; John P, Fyfe