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CHIMNEY-SWEEPS. -BILLETTING SOLDIERS.
TABLE OF EATES FOR CHIMNEY-SWEEPS.
No. 1. — Kitchen Vents.
Sweeping Kitchen Vents on ground floor, .
Do. do. on first flat,
Do. do. on second flat and upwards,
Additional, if with Smoke-jack, Hot-plate, and Oven,
Cleaning Vent and Flues of washing-house boilers,
No. 2. — Room Vents.
Sweeping Room Vents, with Register or Kinnaird Grates, on ground floor, £0
On first floor, .........
On second floor and upwards, ......
Houses of one or two apartments, .......
No. 3. — Shops, Banks, Warehouses, and Public Offices.
Sweeping each Vent on ground flat, ....... £0
Do. do. on first flat, ....
Do. do. on second flat and upwards, . . . . 6
No. 4. — New Tenements.
Cleaning Chimney of New Tenements, £0 4
No. 5. — Charitable Institutions.
For Charitable Institutions within the boundary, . . . X0 4
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No. 6.— -Extra Work.
For the first hour,
Each hour thereafter,
£0

In order to prevent, as much as possible, chimneys taking fire, the magistrates re-
commend to the inhabitants to get their chimneys swept every six weeks, and not to
employ or admit to their houses, or to the roof thereof, any chimney-sweeper not
having a badge, or who refuses to produce the same when demanded. The magistrates
also recommend to the inhabitants to keep the hatchway, or other access to the roof
of their houses, properly secured; and not to intrust the key to any chimney-sweeper
who has not a badge, in order to prevent theft and destruction to property.
BILLETING SOLDIERS.
Soldiers on the recruiting service, &c, are billeted on the houses of the inhabitants,
in regular rotation, with the following exceptions, viz., Parish-ministers and School-
masters, Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Faculty of Procurators, Widows, and
Unmarried Ladies not in business, and who do not keep Lodgers, and Paupers.
Occupiers of houses at £3 and under £5 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.
Any person refusing the billet is subject to a penalty of Five Pounds.
When inconvenient to furnish the soldier with a bed, it is customary to pay a pri-
vate 3d. for each night, and a Serjeant, 4d.
On the 4th, 5th, and 6th of the month, after the billet has expired, a penny for
each day for each man will be repaid, by presenting it to the Quarter-Master, 5 Great
Hamilton Street. Attendance from 1 1 till 2 o'clock.