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COLLEGII ET VNIVERSITATIS REGINAE REGIODVNI ANNALES
A.D. MDCCC LV-VI
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The following are the names of the Students enrolled this Session;
First Year [left column] James Dickson James D. Macdonnell John Thom William McQuaig J. Fraser E. J. Hooper William Craig
[right column] Robt J. Drummond John Agnew Finlay McNab C.J. Mattice David Hamilton Donald McLean
Second Year [left column] Duncan McMillan James Webster J.P. Macpherson John M. Fraser D.B. McLennan
[right column] James Mullen George Porteous James Carmichael John May John Machar
Third Year [left column] John A. McKenzie George S. Rose
[right column] Donald Ross John Livingston.
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[left column] David Camelon M.E. Galbraith
[right column] Robt. Campbell In Arts 30.
Theology [left column] Joseph Evans James Sievwright William Bell Wm E. McKay D.J. Maclean
[right column] H.J. Borthwick Alexr McLennan W.C. Clarke Donald Macdonald Peter Watson 10
The number of Students in Medicine - 47.
Leave having been granted to Professor Smith to pay a lengthened visit to Britain, and the Continent, his Classes were taught during the Session 1855-56 by Drs. Machar and George.
The College had for the first time received from the Commissioners of Clergy Reserves a grant of [Pound symbol?] 500 Curry. in 1853-54. Public opinion in Canada, however, had become so strongly pronounced against the System according to which these Reserves had been hitherto applied to the support of different religious denominations, that power was sought from, and given by, the Imperial Parliament in May 1853 to the Provincial Government to legislate with regard to
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them, and by a Provincial Act passed in Decr 1854 it was provided, that they should be thenceforth appropriated to certain other specified purposes, compensation being at the same time enacted to be made for the claims of those who had been at the date of the passage of the Imperial Statute, receiving from that Fund. In 1855, Life Annuities, culculated by Actuaries from the value of the life of each such beneficiary, were accordingly agreed to be paid to them individually, and among others to Professors George, Williamson, Smith and Weir as representing Queen's College. The members of the Synod, however, unanimously agreed that the whole value of the Annuities thus payable to them individually should be received by their Commissioners from the Government, and should form one Common Fund under the management of Commissioners, now incorporated under the name of the "Temporalities Board," from which each Member should be paid yearly during life [Pound symbol?]112. 10, except that the Professors of Queen's University, for themselves and as representing in a special manner its interests, having each commuted for an annual payment of [Pound symbol?]125, being the fourth of [Pound symbol?]500, and having agreed that sum should be handed over to the Treasurer of the College
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the amount thenceforth received yearly by the College from the Commutation Fund was £ 500, an important and permanent addition to its revenue.
The Revd Dr. George having during the past year undertaken the Class in Church History in the absence of Professor Smith, and having also discharged the duties of Principal of the College the sum of [Pound symbol?]100 was ordered to be paid to him as remuneration for extra services during the past year.
The Trustees also taking into consideration the subject of making some adequate remuneration to the Revd Dr. Machar, who had during the past year conducted the Hebrew Classes of the revd. Professor Smith,
- Dr. Machar being present respectfully submitted that in undertaking the Hebrew Classes he had determined not to accept any salary for teaching them, and that he now abode by that determination, but that if the Trustees should see fit to record their approbation of his services by presenting him with a suitable book it would be highly gratifying to him to receive from them such a memorial of the manner in which he had discharged the duty he had undertaken
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