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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.
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Robertson, Malcolm M'Caul, Directors ;
James. Leitch Lang, Clerk; James
Glassford, Factor.
FIFE, KINROSS, & CLACKMANNAN
CHARITABLE.— Instituted 1837.
The Hon. the Earl of Mansfield, Patron;
Robert M. Lindsay, President ; G. L.
Walker, James Reid, Alexander Seton,
Vice-Presidents ; Archibald Crombie,
Treasurer ; Henry Smeaton, Writer, 38
West George Street, Secretary; George
Heggie, David Whyte, John Forbes, John
Arnot, James Sturrock, George Jasper
Lj'on, and P. W. Dixon, for Fife; Win.
Blackwood, D. Black, A. Elder, and Robt.
"Whyte, for Kinross ; T. A. Porteous, John
M'Laren, and Wm. Smith, for Clack-
mannan, Directors.
The principal object of this Society is
to afford pecuniary aid to indigent natives,
or widows or children of natives of these
counties, resident in or near, or passing
through Glasgow. The subscription of
one guinea per annum for four years con-
stitutes membership to parties eligible by
connection with any of these counties.
ARGYLLSHIRE SOCIETY.
President, Sir Archibald J. Campbell of
Succoth, Bart., M.P. for Argyllshire;
Directors, John Downie, William Connall,
jun., Hugh M'Lachlan, E. M'Lean, John
B. Wright, Hugh Mactavish, Duncan
M f Arthur, Archibald Campbell, Neil Hill;
Treasurer, D. M'Master; Secretary, Hugh
Stevenson.
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS'
SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND.
Board Office, 8 Princes Square, Glasgow.
President, A. R. Maediarmid, 24 Hut-
cheson Street ; Vice-President, R. K.
Masson, 19 Jamaica Street ; Treasurer,
James Gourlay ; Secretary, Wm. Tolmie,
8 Princes Square ; Surgeon, Alex. King,
M. D. ; Actuary, Alexander Borland ;
Surgeon for Edinburgh and its vicinity,
Douglas Maclagan, M.D. ; Directors, R.
Benzie, R. Webster, jun., Wm. Hillhouse,
R. White, John Craig, R. Hutchison, D.
L. Whyte, R. Smith, Thomas M'Nee, Geo.
Stewart, Wm. Wemyss, David Stuart.
A Member of this Society, who has
been 12 months enrolled, on being inca-
pacitated by disease, accident, or infirmity,
from following his usual avocations, is
entitled to receive £1 per week. On the
death of a Member, who has been 12
months enrolled, the Society pays £10
to the nearest of kin, or other person
taking charge of his funeral. Annual
meeting in Glasgow in January.
ST. GEORGE'S ROYAL BENEVO-
LENT SOCIETY FOR THE WEST
OF SCOTLAND.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, Patroness ; The Right Hon. the
Earl of Eglinton and Winton, President ;
Sir Arch. Alison, Bart., Sheiiff of Lanark-
shird, Vice-President ; S. Higginbotham,
Chairman; D. C. Rait, Treasurer; Francis
Baird, Secretary, Gordon Street ; J. Reid,
of Wellfield, Francis Baird, James Bu-
chanan, younger, Edgar Dolby, Sam.
Woolfield, Thos. Aylward, A. S. Cunliffe,
Office-Bearers.
STIRLINGSHIRE CHARITABLE.
Instituted 6th January, 1809, for the
purpose of affording relief to persons in
need who are natires of Stirlingshire, or
their children, resident in Glasgow or the
neighbourhood ; or the natives of the shire
travelling through the city, and unex-
pectedly falling into distress.
William Campbell, Preses ; Alexander
Harvey, Vice-Preses ; Wm. Connal, Trea-
surer ; James Morrison, Vice- Treasurer
and Secretary.
CLYDESDALE UPPER WARD
SOCIETY.
John Arneil, President, 20 Little Ha-
milton Street ; Archibald Nairn, Vice-
President; George Stodart, Treasurer, 33£
St. Vincent Place; Thomas Davidson,
Vice-Treasurer ; Directors, James Dale,
John Wilson, Robert Lockhart, James
Drysdale, George Lean, John Coulter,
William Steven, James Gordon, William
Dunipace, James Stodart, James Hamil-
ton, Robert Ballantyue ; Secretary, Alex.
Allan, 21 St. Vincent Place.
BARONY OF GORBALS BENEVO-
LENT.
James Scott of Kelly, Preses ; Bailie
Joseph A. Wright, Vice-Preses ; William
Thomson Edmonston, Treasurer ; Bailie
James Gourlay, late Preses ; Honorary
Directors, Wm. Campbell of Tillichewan
Castle, James Craig, Carlton Place ; Di-
rectors, Archibald Walker, Bailie John
Taylor, jun., James Stewart, jun., Wm.
Richmond, Thomas Pearson, Wm. Geddes,
John Brown Gourlay, John Graham,
James Craig, jun., William M'Onie, Wm.
Neilson, jun. ; Medical Officer, Alexander
Forbes, M.D. ; Secretary, Wm. Neilson ;
Officer, James Robertson.