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OFFICIAL^— County of Bute.
Clerk, Thomas W Alexander. Clerks-Depute — Rothesay, Win Watson ; Lamlash
Wm Munro ; Millport, James Ross. Procurator-Fiscal, Robert D Macmillan,
Depute Procurator-Fiscal, Willm Miller. Nautical Assessors for Bute, William
Erskine, Partickhill, Glasgow ; Capt. A G. Brass, Pollokshields ; and Capt. John
Young, Irvine. Medical Referees appointed under the Workman's Compensation
Acts : — Buteshire — John Marshall, m b, Rothesay ; Island of Arran, Robert
Allan, M d, Ardrossan. For Industrial Disease — Dr Alex Scott, 12 Newton pi,
Glasgow. Sheriff-Officers, Alexander Campbell, Rothesay ; James Boyd, Dairy ;
John Brown, Ayr; John Albert Carson, 8 Duke street, Kilmarnock; Joseph
M^Culloch, Ardrossan ; John Stevenson, Dunoon; Henry Devlin, 13 Hamilton
street, Greenock; and James Crossley, 116 St Vincent street, Glasgow. Auditor,
T W Alexander. Keeper of Court-House and Bar Officer, Angus Mcintosh
The Circuit Court for Buteshire meets six times a year in Glasgow
Justices Of the Peace. — Quarter Sessions are held at Rothesay on first Tuesdays of
March, May, and August, and last Tuesday of October ; and Courts of Petty
Sessions are held as required.
Isle of Bute — Ex-Provosts Orkney, Sharp, Thomson, M'Millan, Milloy, M'Intosh
Walker and Burness; Provost Miller; ex-Bailies Fisher, Hicks, M'Bride,
andSquair; John Mackirdy, John Mackinlay, Wm. Cuthbertson, seedsman; Wm.
Hunter, builder ; J. R. Metcalfe, Marine place ; John Porter, Marine place ; and
Jas. Smith, Ferguson place, Rothesay: William Spencer Ascog ; James Duncan,
Bannatyne Mains; Colonel Michael R. Gray Buchanan, Ettrickdale ; John Fer-
guson, builder ; and Alex. Sim, Port-Bannayne, North Bute ; Thomas Russell,
Glasgow; A. R C. Pitman, w.s., Edinburgh ; and H G F Newall, St Andrews
Island of Arran — John Spiers, Bennecarrigau ; Robert Hamilton, ex-piermaster,
Brodick; James McGregor, quarrymaster, Corrie ; John Wallace, Glenkill ; Dr
Neil Fullarton, John B Sweet, banker, and James Hodge, pierinaster, Lamlash ;
James Allan, Balnacoole ; Wm Hamilton, shipmaster; James M r Kinnon, farmer;
Jas Campbell M'Gill' joiner; and Thomas Miller, piermaster, Whiting Bay;
Alex M'Bride, Shiskine ; Robert Crawford, farmer, Glenscorradale ; Archibald
Kelso, James M'Kinnon, and Robert Kerr, jun., piermaster, Lochranza.
C umbrae — Provost Cockburn, ex-Provost Allan, James Ross, banker; Wm Allan,
John Cunningham baker ; Thomas Duncan, joiner ; J C Sharpe and Duncan
MfDougall, Ballochmartin
Ex-Officiis — The Sheriff and Sheriff-Substitute ; the Provost, Bailies, and Dean
of Guild of Rothesay ; the Baron Bailie of Mountstuart ; the Chief Magistrate
of Millport ; and the Chairmen of District Committees and Parish Counci's
Clerk, Thomas W Alexander. Depute, William Watson. Procurator-Fiscal, R D
Macmillan. Water Bailiff, Charles Wright Morris, 24 Charlotte Sq., Edinburgh.
County Licensing Court — F H Squair, Rothesay; John Ferguson, Port- Banna-
tyne ; D M'Dougall, Millport; Alex Sim, Port-Bannatyne ; A Hugh Douglas,
Strabane, Brodick ; Provost Cockburn, Millport ; Alex M'Farlane, Meikle Kil-
chattan ; and James Duncan, Bannatyne Mains, Port-Bannatyne.
County Licensing Appeal Court.— Appointed by the Justices of the Peace- John
Cunningham, Millport; James Smith, James M'Bride, Robert Burness, Lachlau
Milloy and D. M'Millan Rothesay; and Jas Duncan, Bannatyne Mains
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