Series 4 > Papers on Sutherland Estate Management 1802-1816 > Volume 9

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1802-1807
ing to ^586 10s. 6d. I also send you a Plan of the same Inn made
out by my Brother Colin which he has transmitted to the Marchion¬
ess of Stafford and has been returned approved by her and the
Marquis. This new Plan makes more accomodation and Conven¬
ience on a smaller Scale and is in every respect Superior to
Mackenzie’s. You will therefore please on receipt send for Mackenzie
and give him the new Plan with an instruction to copy it out on
Paper with a suitable Elevation and to make a new Estimate of
the Expence. We suppose that the expence of this new Inn will be
considerably less than that planed by Mackenzie. And as soon as
you receive from Mackenzie this new Plan and Estimate you will
be good enough to transmit them to me so as we may have them
examined and finally approved of. The new Inn to be built will
as you proposed be situated on the side of the road with its front
pointing North to Rhives and having on the east side of the road
leading from Rhives Gate to the Shore the little Stream which
would be a great Convenience to the Inn.1
I send inclosed a Letter which we received yesterday from the
Minister and parishioners of Assint as to the repairs on the Church
with a Copy of my Answer thereto which I beg You will attend
to and write to some of them on the subject.2
I inclose a Memorandum relative to the Sutherland Set whereby
You will observe that The Marchioness and Marquis have resolved
to defer for a Year the General Sett of the Estate and that no part
will be let this Year except the Sheep farms and the lands to
Messrs handles & Co. You will of course read the Memorandum
and be immediately engaged in forming the Lists desired and giving
us such other information as You judge fit. Colin is to write to-day
or tomorrow to Glengarry to get Gillespie to go immediately to
Sutherland to value the Sheep farms and give us the proper lines
of boundary. You may let it be generally known in Sutherland that
there will be no Leases granted this Year except to the Sheep
farmers and Mr Pope and that the tenants whose Leases expire at
Whitsunday 1807 will be allowed to continue another Year in
possession at the same rent. I hope to be in Sutherland by the end
1 This proposed inn is to be distinguished from that actually built in 1808 (see
below, pp. 80-81).
2 These letters have not survived.