50 HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



' The Highland Society of Scotland at Edinburgh.' The 

 objects and rules, so far as embodied in the charter, are 

 identical with those adopted at the meeting in January 1785. 

 Two years after the grant of the charter, the Society 

 obtained another mark of favour not less valuable. In 1789, 

 the Society received, in terms of an Act of Parliament, a 

 grant of ^3000, out of the money paid on restitution of the 

 forfeited estates. This money was directed by the Act to 

 be laid out on heritable security ; and the interest arising 

 to be applied by the Society in ' inquiring into the state of 

 the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, and for promoting 

 improvements, advancing agriculture, and introducing useful 

 trades and manufactures in that part of the kingdom.' 



