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1. (b) FUNDED ESTATES.
Bowles's Five Acres.
The proceeds of the sale of a portion of this land (see
Landed Estates), was in the year 1807 invested in the purchase
of £800 Three Per Cent. Consols, now producing £22 per
annum.
The dividends are carried to the General Fund paid to
the Distribution Committee.
Arnot's Charity.
Michael Arnot, by Will dated 20th April, 1823, bequeathed
the interest of £100 Old South Sea Annuities (subsequently
converted into New 2½ Per Cent. Annuities) to be divided
equally—" one half part to charity schools and the other half
part to three poor persons of, and belonging to, the Parish
of Camberwell."
One half of this dividend—£1 10s.— is paid to a Charity
School nominated yearly by the Charity Distribution Committee,
and the other half carried to the General Fund handed over to
that Committee.
Harriott Smith's Gift.
Mrs. Harriott Smith, by her Will, dated 23rd September,
1808, gave and bequeathed to the Vicar, Churchwardens, and
Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of St. Giles, Camberwell, the
sum of £1,000 Three Per Cent. Reduced Annuities in trust " tc.
pay and divide the dividends thereof to ten of the oldest poor
housekeepers of the towns and villages of Camberwell and
Dulwich equally, for ever."
The Dividends of this sum (now transferred to New
Consols 2¾ per cent.), £27 10s. od. per annum, form one of the
Special Gifts, and are distributed according to the Will among
ten poor housekeepers.