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After the consummation of the arrangements ex- 

 plained above, serious trouble arose as to the dispo- 

 sition of the fund collected in England by Mr. Bunch. 

 As we have said, $823.55, as was claimed, had been 

 collected for building the hospital and $10,000 for a 

 church. The first of these amounts had been 

 promptly turned over to the Treasurer of St. Luke's 

 and the latter sum had been deposited in the New 

 York Life Insurance & Trust Co., to the joint credit 

 of Anthony Barclay and Robert Bunch, trustees, 

 the idea of erecting a new church edifice not having 

 yet been abandoned, and the interest was appropri- 

 ated temporarily to the maintenance of the church 

 of St. George the Martyr. Arrangements were 

 made to occupy the building situate at the corner of 

 Thompson and Prince streets, in conjunction with 

 Emanuel Parish, and the Rev. Mr. Leonard, having 

 accepted a call as rector, it seemed then likely that 

 the Church of St. George the Martyr would, in due 

 time, assume its proper position among the Protes- 

 tant Episcopal congregations in this city. 



In December, 1853, however, a formal demand was 

 made by St. Luke's Hospital for the whole or a part 

 of the sum collected by Mr. Bunch in England, upon 

 the ground that the contributors had intended the 

 money for that institution. Legal proceedings were 

 commenced, and it being evident that a protracted 

 litigation would evidently absorb the greater part, 

 if not the whole of the fund, a compromise was ulti- 



