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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
GLASGOW LOTHIANS' SOCIETY.
Instituted 6th January, 1837.
Composed of gentlemen in Glasgow connected
•with the counties of Edinburgh, Linlithgow, and
Haddington — the Lothians. Entry-money, £3 3s.
Object — to afford relief, by annual pensions, to indi-
gent and deserving persons, resident in Glasgow, and
natives or connected with the Lothians, in terms of
the regulations. Amount of society's funds, £820
10s. 7d.
The Lords-lieutenant of the three counties, patrons;
Archibald Gibson, president; Thomas Hill and Jas.
Thomson, vice-presidents ; Sheriff Bell, Sheriff
Logic, Professor Kirkwood, J. Wyllie Guild, Mark
Sprot, Alex. Balderston, Jas. Somervail, G. Hardie,
John Marshall, jun., Ruthven C. Todd, David
Hutcheson, A. J. Penn, Alex. M'Arthur, Thomas
Menzies, and Robt. Gibson, directors ; John Mitchell,
treasurer; James Hutton Watkins, writer, 16S St.
Vincent Street, secretary.
PERTHSHIRE CHARITABLE.
Instituted 22nd Dec, 1835.
The principal object of this society, the qualifica-
tion for membership of which consists of a small sum
of entry-money, istoaffordrelief to persons in indigent
circumstances, natives or widows of natives of Perth-
shire, and their children resident in Glasgow and the
neighbourhood, or passing through the city, unex-
pectedly falling into distress.
George Patton, Lord Advocate, patron; Henry
Campbell, president ; James Reid Stewart, late
president; William M'Onie, James Craig, James
Dewar, Wm. Johnston, George M. Grierson, Napier
Smith, David Robertson, Walter Macfarlane, Wm.
Russell, James Blair, William M'CulIoch, and David
Tod, directors; David Gray Spe nee. 111 St. Vincent
Street, secretary and treasurer; James Blair, 21
Virginia Street, honorary treasurer.
KILMARNOCK SOCIAL AND BENEVOLENT
SOCIETY IN GLASGOW.
John Finnie, president; John Farquhar, Campsie
Junction, vice-president ; Hugh Jack, 265 Sauchie-
hall Street, treasurer ; Archd. Hood, 2 South Apsley
Place, secretary ; John Lawson, James Thomson, J.
K. Hunter, Thomas O'Beirne, William Logan, James
Merry, Andrew Armour, Robert Easton, Samuel
Euncie, Wm. Guthrie, James Muir, George Campbell,
M. Thomson, W. D. Woodburn, Thomas Dickie, M.
Templeton, Robert Porter, John Fleming, committee.
In Kilmarnock — James M'Kie, James Armour,
David Lawrie, Hugh Shaw, John Wallace, Robert
Hillhouse, Alexander Nisbet, James Caldwell.
PRINTERS AND BOOKBINDERS.
Thomas Napier, preses ; Alex. Buchanan, trea-
surer; Paul M'Phail, late preses ; James Dunsmore,
late treasurer; John M'llraith, Alex. Stobo, jun.,
John M'CulIoch, Robert Jack, Robt. Ferguson, John
M'Kenzie, William Stephen, Robert Dawson, James
Galbraith, and William Brownlie, directors ; Robert
Lyle and Robert Love, auditors; John M'Kenzie and
John M'CulIoch, trustees; James Smith, clerk;
Robert Murdie, officer.
BARONY OF GORBALS BENEVOLENT
SOCIETY.
Alex. Harvey, preses ; J. H. Young, late preses ;
James Craig, Carlton Place, James Seott of Kelly,
Joseph A. Wright, Abbotsford Place, honorary direc-
tors; W. T. Edmiston, Robt. Ker, Robt. Neill, John
Blair, William Neilson, Wm. Wilson, R. S. Cunliff,
William Darling, James Gourlay, John Craig, Wm.
Primrose, Alex. Leckie, directors ; John Craig, 34
Stockwell Street, treasurer; Alex. Yonng, 138 Hope
Street, secretary; James E. Newman, M.D., medical
oflBcer; James Robertson, officer.
GROCERS' EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION.
Instituted in 1854.
Office-bearers for 1867-68.
John Mowat, president; William Anderson and
Alex. Mackay, vice-presidents ; William Thomson,
St. Enoch Square, secretary; John Inglis, 21 Vir-
ginia Street, treasurer.
The objects of this association are the furtherance
of the Early Closing Movement, and the promotion
of the literary and mental powers of its members.
Meeting House, Garrick Temperance Hotel, Stock-
well Street.
WEAVERS' SOCIETY OF ANDERSTON.
Instituted 1738.
Duncan M'Alpine, preses; James Steel, treasurer;
J. M. Taylor, writer, clerk. The object of this society
is for the purpose of affording charitable aid to such of
its members and their widows as may be reduced to
destitute circumstances. The fee or entry-money pay-
able by a son or son-in-law of a member, or by an
apprentice indentured to a member (a weaver by trade),
is £1 10s,, and the entrance fee payable by all others
is £2 2s. Members must not be under the age of 14
when admitted, nor above the age of 45, and must be
resident in the district formerly known as the burgh
of Anderston, or neighbourhood thereof.
M'ALPINE'S MORTIFICATION.
Founded in 1811, by Mrs. M'Alpine, who con-
veyed to trustees her property for the maintenance
of poor men and women of the description given in
her will — the former receiving annually £10, and
the latter £5. The trustees are, the Deacon-Con-
vener and the Ministers of eight of the Established
Churches.
D. & A. Cuthbertson, factors, 110 W. Geo. Street.
GLASGOW HIGHLAND SOCIETY.
James Hannan, preses; Robert Hope Robertson,
treasurer ; John Smith, Robert Ker, Duncan Smith,
Peter Clouston, John Ramsay, James Rodger, Wm.
M'Lean, jun., David M'Brayne, James Dale, Archd.
Robertson, Robert Salmond, directors ; John M'Call
and R. M. Lindsaj', box-masters; Rev. Norman
M'Leod, chaplain ; Dugald Forbes, secretary ; Eng-
lish and commercial departments — head -master,
Donald Murray; teachers, Andrew Jamieson, Robt.
M'Nab, Daniel Dewar, and William M'Farlane;
industrial department — Miss Main; music — James
Robson; drawing — William Stewart ; Hugh Miller,
ofiScer.