Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1882
WHEREAS it is desirable to extend the usefulness of educational endowments in Scotland, and to carry out more fully than is done at present the spirit of the founders' intentions, and so far as may be to make an adequate portion of such endowments available for affording to boys and girls of promise opportunities for obtaining higher education of the kind best suited to aid their advancement in life: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of th...