one person fhall hold more than five votes by proxy---That the affairs of the fociety fhall be managed by a go vernor, deputy governor, and thirteen other directors, to ⚫ be elected annually, on the 25th of March, from among ⚫ the proprietors of the fociety, holding at least one full share, by figned lifts of their names to be transmitted by the proprietors to the fecretary of the fociety---That five proprietors, not being governor, director, or other officer, fhall be in like manner annually elected to audit the accounts of the fociety---That there fhall be one general meeting of the proprietors annually, on the 25th of March <---That occafional general meetings fhall be called on the request of nine or more proprietors---That the general meetings of the proprietors shall make all bye-laws and con• ftitutions for the government of the society, and for the good and orderly carrying on of the bufinefs of the fame ---That no transfer fhall be made of the ftock of the fociety for three years, from the 10th of August 1786--That the cash of the fociety fhall be lodged in the Bank of England, Bank of Scotland, or the Royal Bank of Scotland--That no director, proprietor, agent, or officer of the fociety, fhall retain any fum or fums of money in his hands beyond the space of thirty days, on any account whatsoever---That all payments by the society shall be made by drafts on the faid banks, under the hands of the governor or deputy governor, counterfigned by the fecretary or his deputy, and two or more directors---And that • the books in which the accounts of the society shall be kept, fhall be open to all the proprietors.' Such being the powers which the legislature has already granted to the fociety for the attainment of the important objects of their inftitution, the directors cannot entertain a doubt of the countenance and fupport of every real well-wisher to the profperity, ftrength, and honour of Great Britain. Lif t Lift of the Directors and other Officers, elected on the 12th of August 1786, and re-elected on the 26th of March 1787. GOVERNOR, I His Grace the Duke of Argyle. DEPUTY GOVERNOR,, .. The Right Honourable the Earl of Breadalbane. DIRECTORS,... The Moft Honourable the Marquis of Graham, The Right Honourable Lord Suffield,, Ifaac Hawkins Browne, Efq. M. P. George Dempfter, Efq. M. P. F. H. Mackenzie, Efq. M. P. William Wilberforce, Efq. M. P. AUDITORS, Sir Robert Herries, Knt. Alexander Anderson, Efq..... Duncan Campbell, Efq. William Grant, Efq. 1 Alexander Pringle, Efq.. SECRETARY, John Mackenzie, Efq. The total amount of fubfcriptions in May 1787, was twenty five thousand pounds; of which fum, the Author of thefe sheets procured, chiefly in the remote parts of the kingdom, four thousand feven hundred and feventy five pounds, between July 1786 and February 1787. A call of ten per cent. has been made by the Directors, which, after defraying the expences of the act of incorporation, and other incidental disbursements, was lodged agreeably to the act of parliament. DEDICATION DISSERTATIONS ON THE ANCIENT AND MODERN F the Ancient Caledonia OF Description of the Hebride, and the Orkney Islands, Poetry of the Caledonians Of the Hebridean Seminary of Learning at Icolumkill 7 22 26 44 49 54 Modern Defcriptions of the Highlands, and the Hebride 58 and the great fidelity of the latter Remains of Caledonian Architecture Origin and Progress of the British Society for extend- Addrefs to the Proprietors of Lands on the Coafts of the to the British Society for extending the Fisheries 94 132 *H A TOUR A TOUR THROUGH THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOT- Journal 99 Lift of the most eligible Stations for Villages on the Con- tinent, and the Hebride Ilands 275 Defcription of Icolumkill, one of the Hebride Ilands, by Dr. Johnfon. Copy of a Letter from George Dempster, Efq. to Mr. John Copy of a Letter on improving Moorlands, from George Copies of Two Letters on the above Subject, from James Guthrie, Efq. at Buxton, May 30, and June 3, 1785, to George Dempster, Efq. Receipt to make Yeast, communicated by Mr. Dempfter 85 Memorandums concerning the Village of Lawrence Kirk, by Lord Gardenstone, communicated by Mr. Dempster 86 Extract from a Difcourfe on the Expediency of Eftablifb- Abstract of the Act for incorporating the British Society 102 91 1 |