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Assessments — Officials— County of Bute.
-Roads,
On the Bute District
PuHic Health
Port-Bannatyne Drainage,
Kilchattan Bay Drainage,
Kilchattan Bay Water Supply, 8d
Ascog Lighting, - - 2d
Own. Occ.
5£d 5£d
Own. Occ.
0£d
0£d
0#d
0£d
0£d
0|d
8d
2d
6^d
On the Arran District —
Roads, -
Health, -
Brodick Scavenging, -
On the Cum brae District-
Roads, &c, - - Ofd
lieutenancy. — Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff, John Crichton Stuart, Marquis
of Bute. Deputy Lieutenants — Ex- Provost Sharp, Rothesay: James Lamont,
Knockdhu ; Thomas Russell, Glasgow ; Archibald Louis Fullarton Robertson,
Fullarton ; Sir Charles Dalrymple, Bart, ; Richard Carnaby-Foster ; and the
Provost of Rothesay Clerk, Adam D Macbeth, Rothesay.
Member of Parliament. — Norman Lamont, younger of Knockdhu. At the General
E'ection, on 23rd January, 1906, the candidates were — Mr Lamont (Liberal),
who polled 1637; and Mr Guy Speir, Unionist, who polled 1,517 — majority, 120.
Constituency — The Roll of Parliamentary Voters is as follows :— Cumbrae, 629;
North Bute, 369 ; Rothesay, 1643 ; Kingarth, 237 ; Kilbride, 383 ; Kilmory, 351;
total, 3612: increase, 17.
Supplementary voters for County Councils, 922.
Auxiliary Forces. — West of Scotland Royal Garrison Artillery Special
Reserve — Meets annually for drill at Glasgow Hon Colonel, J Younger. Lieut-
Colonel, J T Nichol. Major, J A Younger. Quarter-Master, J P MfDonald
Territorial Forces — Buteshire Association. — President, The Most Hon.
the Marquis of Bute ; Chairman, Lieut.-Colonel John Maclsaac ; vice-Chairman,
George Halliday. Military members—Major Robertson, Millport ; Captain
and Hon. Major, Andrew M M'Kinlay, and Lieuts. W A Stewart and Wm Lyle,
Rothesay. Civil members — Provost filler, Kothesay ; Provost Cockburn, Mill-
pert ; and Alex MTntyre, farmer, Dunallan, Secretary, Colonel M r Innes, Or-
midale. Treasurer, George Smith, Clydesdale Bank
Mountain Artillery Brigade — Royal Garrison Artillery. — Head-
Quarters, Tarbert Hon Colonel, The Duke of Argyll, k t, k c m g, v d,
Colonel Commandant, Colonel Campbell, Stonefield, Tarbert. Adjutant, Captain
"W H M'Alpine Leng. Chaplains, Rev J F Macpherson, vd,bd, Greenock ; and
Surgeon- Captain, David J Penney, Rothesay.
Brigade Sergeant-Major, H MacFatson.
Buteshire Mountain Battery — T. Royal Garrison Artillery — DC
Major Colin Macleod Robertson. Rothesay — Right Section — Captain and Hon
Major Andrew M M'Kinlay. Lieutenants, George Hicks and William Lyle. Drill-
Instructor, Sergeant-Major E Hyde. Pipe-Major, J Murdoch
Millport — Left Section — Lieutenant, W A Stewart. Drill Instructor, Sergeant-
Major Mendham
Sheriff Court. — Bute is joined with Renfrew. The Court meets at Rothesay on
Thursday forenoons at 11 o'clock. Circuit Small Debts Courts meet quarterly at
Brodick, Arran, on the third Wednesdays in March, June and November, and
about the end of September ; and at Millport, Cumbrae, in March and Sep-
tember. Sheriff, Neil John Downie Kennedy, kc, lld, advocate. Sheriff-Sub-
stitute, Thomas J Martin, m.a, advocate. Hon Sheriff-Substitutes, Robert Sharp
and Adam D. Macbeth, Rothesay ; and James Allan, Balnacoole, Arran
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