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MERCHANTS' HOUSE.-
-CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
GOVAN PAROCHIAL CHAMBERS,
224 Eglinton Street.
Out-Door Department. — James D.
Kirkwood, Inspector of Poor; Henry
Reid, Robert Brown, and Archibald Tem-
pleton, Assistant-Inspectors ; Alexander
Lemon, and Gavin Shearer, Clerks; David
Dreghorn, 21 St. Enoch Square, Collector.
Workhouse Department. — Go-
vernor, Charles Forsyth; Matron, Susanna
Stewart; Chaplain and Male Teacher,
Rev. Alexander Laurie; Female Teacher,
Anne Smith; Surgeon, James Stewart,
M.D. ; Porter, James Speirs.
Govan Poorhouse, 220 Eglinton Street.
Govau Reformatory Schools (Male and
Female), 220 Eglinton Street.
MERCHANTS' HOUSE.
Robert Baird, Lord Dean of Guild >
Archibald Newall, Collector and Clerk ;
John Smith, Assistant Collector and
Clerk; Ninian Slight, Superintendent of
Cemetery and Quarries ; George May,
Officer and Hall Keeper ; John M'Der-
mid, Officer of Dean of Guild Court.
Directors — William Connal, John
M'Ewen, John King, Daniel Gilchrist,
James Sword, Alexander Wingate, David
Anderson, William Morgan, Peter Clou-
ston, Andrew Johnston, James Clark,
James Black, Andrew Galbraith, Archi-
bald G. Kidston, James A. Campbell,
William Stow Wilson, Thomas Buchanan,
of D. B. & Co., Lewis Potter, James
Watson, William W. Watson, Robert
Paterson, of P. J. & Co., Walter Bu-
chanan, of B. H. & Co., Robert A. Clunie,
Patrick Brodie, James Hannan, Hugh
Cogan, Sir James Anderson, Alexander
Ronaldson, John Tennant, H. E. Crum
Ewing, William Jamieson, Graham Rus-
sell, Samuel R. Brown, William Baukier,
David M'Kinlay, J. F. Jamieson.
GLASGOW AND WEST OF SCOT-
LAND GUARDIAN SOCIETY FOR
THE PROTECTION OF TRADE.—
Chambers, 13 Virginia Street.
Adam Pringle, President; Samuel
M'Culloch, Vice-President; Robert Wylie,
Treasurer ; Smith & Wright, Solicitors ;
James Mitchell, Sheriff- Officer; Peter W.
Dixon, and James Riddell, Joint-Secre-
taries; Committee, — Sir James Campbell,
David M'Gibbon, William Whyte, Robt.
Kaye, William Gilmour, D. C. Rait, Win.
Wilson, John Finlay, Alexander Collie,
William Brown, John Kirsop, Alexander
B. Glen, Alexander M'Kenzie, John
Robertson, Robert Smith, Arch. Arrol,
James Gourlay, Peter M'Leod, James P.
Tassie, James Blair.
CLYDE NAVIGATION.
The Hon. the Lord Provost, Chairman;
James Scott, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Trustees — The Hon. Andrew Orr, Lord
Provost ; George Mitchell, William Gil-
mour, James Watt Macgregor, James
Graham, Joseph A. Wright, John Flem-
ing, James H. Young, John Thomson,
Bailies ; Robert Baird, Dean of Guild ;
James Craig, Deacon Convener ; John
Macintyre, William Rae, Robert Neilson,
Robert Webster, Andrew Fowler, David
Mackinlay, James Drummond, James
Scott, James Hannan, Robert Stewart,
John Macdowall, William Murray, David
Dreghorn, William Macadam, John
Mitchell, William Allan, Councillors ;
George Lyon Walker, Chairman of the
Chamber of Commerce ; Richard Kidston,
William Connal, John M'Ewen, ap-
pointed by the Merchants' House ; David
Yuile, Alexander Reid, appointed by
the Trades' House ; Wm. Davie, LL.D.,
and A. Turner, Secretaries ; George
Knight, Treasurer ; John F. Ure, Engi-
neer and Master of Works ; Captain
Johnston, Harbour Master; James Brown,
Officer.
WEST INDIA ASSOCIATION.
Humphrey Ewing Crum Ewing, Chair-
man; Graham Russell, Deputy-Chairman;
Directors, John Ronald, W. F. Burnley,
Mungo Campbell, jun., Gregor T irnbull;
C. D. Donald, Secretary and Treasurer.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND
MANUFACTURES.
G. L. Walker, Chairman ; Wm. Balfour,
Deputy-Chairman ; John G. Kinnear,
Secretary ; Directors, James A. Anderson,
Thomas M'Call, Archibald G. Kidston,
Colin Campbell, Hugh Cogan, Andrew
Wingate, G. L. Walker, Sir Jas. Ander-
son, Wm. Crawford, Wm. Hamilton, John
King, George Burns, James Bogle, James
Jamieson, Thomas Buchanan, W. P.
Paton, Michael Connal, Thomas Richard-
son, James A. Campbell, Wm. J. David-
son, Wm. Stirling, jun., Wm. Hamilton,
North Park, Wm. Balfour, Wm. Gourlie,
Thomas Buchanan, jun., Laurence Ro-
bertson, Walter Buchanan, James Clarke,
James Hannan, George Gillespie, Charles
Gray.