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65 Billeting Soldiers.
Billeting Soldiers.
Soldiers on the recruiting service, and not lodged in the Barracks, are
billeted on the inhabitants in regular rotation, with the following excep-
tions, viz. Parish Ministers and Schoolmasters, Faculty of Physicians
and Surgeons, Faculty of Procurators, "Widows and Unmarried Ladies,
not in business, and who do not keep Lodgers and Paupers ; and no in-
habitant to have Soldiers billeted on them a second time until the whole
are gone over.
Occupiers of houses at .£3 and under £b yearly rent, two men for
any number of days under a week — at £5 and upwards, two men for
two weeks, or the remainder of the month, which may happen to be
seventeen days.
When it is inconvenient to furnish soldiers with a bed, it has been
usual in lieu thereof to pay 3s. a week for two men, and 2s. to sergeants,
payable weekly at the option of the inhabitant. Government allows a
return of Id. each day for each soldier. The Billet Master attends from
11 to 3 o'clock on the 4th of each month (when it does not fall on Sun-
day,) and the two following days, to pay the Government allowance.
At Glasgow the Sth day of June, 1808 years.
Which day, the Magistrates and Council of the City of Glasjjow,
being in Council assembled, there were produced a Table of Fares pay-
able to, and Regulations for the Government of, the Carters, plying for
hire within the City, which had been drawn up by the Magistrates, after
consulting with some of the Merchants of the City, and a Committee of
the Carters. On considering which Table of Fares and Regulations,
the Magistrates and Council approve thereof, and enact and ordain the
same to take place and to be observed in all time coming, from and after
this date, under the several penalties therein contained. And of which
Table the tenor follows : —
Farei and Regulations for Carters plying for Hire within the City of
Glasgow.
I. The City shall and is hereby divided into the following Districts,
according to which the respective Rates of Carriage after- mentioned shall
he exigible.
First District — To or from the Broomielaw to Stockwell Street^
Glassford Street, and Frederick Street, up to the north side of George's
Square, including both sides of these Streets, the whole of George's
Square, and every part of the City to the west of these Streets, and also
the upper side of George's Street, West of Frederick Street.
Second District From the Streets last mentioned, along both sides
of George's Street, to High Street, along Trongate and Galiowgate
Streets to the Spoutmouth, including both sides of High Street, from
George's Street southward, also St. Andrew's Square, and all the Streets
and Lanes between the said Spoutmouth westward, to the first line of
division.
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