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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
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, is to afford relief to persons in indigent
circumstances, natives or widows of Datives of Perth-
shire, and their children resident in Glasgow and the
neighbourhood, or passing through the city, unex-
pectedly falling into distress.
Sir Thomas Moncrieff, Bart., patron ; Henry
Campbell, president ; James Reid Stewart, late
president, James Blair, William M'Culloch, John
M'Donald, William M'Onie, James Craig, James
Dewar, William Johnston, George M. Grierson,
Napier Smith, David Robertson, Walter Macfarlane,
and William Russell, directors ; David Gray Spence,
111 St. Vincent Street, secretary and treasurer;
James Blair, 2 1 Virginia Street, honorary treasurer.
THE PENNY SAVINGS BANK ASSOCIATION.
Instituted March, 1865.
James A. Campbell, merchant, president; Wm.
Callender, Royal Bank, vice-president ; David D.
Macdonald, 79 West Regent Street, treasurer ; John
CruikshaDk, 172 West George Street, secretary;
Thomas Brown, Dr. Ross, Joseph N. Smith, Thomas
Younger, Hugh C. Smith, James Hamilton, the Ac-
tuary of the N. S. Savings Bank, ex officio, directors.
The object of the Association is to sustain and
extend the system of penny banks in and around
Glasgow, and to promote their efficiency and good
management by suggesting the best modes of working
them, and also providing for paid assistance where
necessary.
Penny banks receive any sum from one penny to
one pound. Those in operation in Glasgow and its
neighbourhood have attracted 28,000 depositors, with
deposits to the amount of £4800, besides transfers.
WEAVERS' SOCIETY OF ANDERSTON.
Instituted 1738.
John Belch, 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 toamember (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.
BARONY OF GORBALS BENEVOLENT.
Alex. Harvey, preses ;' J. H. Young, late preses ;
James Craig, Carlton Place, James Scott of Kelly,
Joseph A. Wright, Abbotsford Place, honorary direc-
tors ; W. J. Edmiston, Robt. Ker, Robert Neil, John
Blair, William Neilson, Wm. Wilson, Thos. Corbett,
John Binnie, James Gourlay, John Craig, William
Primrose, Alex- Leckie, directors; John Craig, 34
Stockweli Street, treasurer; Alex. Young, 138 Hope
Street, secretary; James E. Newman, M.D., medical
officer ; James Robertson, officer.
KINTYRE CLUB.
Instituted 1825.
The objects of the club are, the social and rational
enjoyment of the members ; the relief and support of
decayed and indigent individuals, or families, who
have either been bora, or are descendants of parents
born, in Kintyre; and the encouragement of learning
and industry in that district by educating poor chil-
dren, distributing prizes annually to the various
schools, and awarding bursaries to deserving students.
The preses, directors, treasurer, and secretary for the
time being, are the patrons of the " Kintyre bursary,"
founded by Robert Ker of Auchinraith, in 1862.
The entry-money of ordinary members is £3 3s.,
payable either in one sum, or three equal annual
instalments ; and honorary members are admitted
for £2 2s.
Patron, his Grace the Duke of Argyll ; preses, Dr.
Wm. Greenlees; directors, Hugh Reid, Laurence
Clark, Wm. Mackinnon, William Ker, John Lang-
lands, Alexander Fleming ; treasurer, Thomas Train,
Madeira Court, 257 Argyle Street; secretary, Henry
B. Lacy, 54 St. Vincent Street.
GLASGOW THISTLE AND ROSE SOCIETY.
John Crawford, president; Wm. Mudie, jun., 67
West Regent Street, treasurer; Wm. Mackinlay and
David Hay, ex officii s ; William Houston, John
Gillies, David Aitken, Robert Cairns, James Bain,
William Morrier, Alexander Taylor, David M 'Gibbon,
Patrick S. Honeyman, Thomas Park, Thomas P.
Stewart, Donald Kempt, ordinary directors ; George
Black, secretary ; Dr. Alexander Paterson, surgeon;
William Kirkwood, officer.
Members under 30 on joining the society pay £1
of entry-money, and 6s. per quarter of contributions
thereafter. Those above 30 pay a proportionately
higher entry-money, according to the age at which
they enter. Members who have been three years in
the society receive when unwell aliment at the fol-
lowing rates : — If confined to bed or unable to walk
abroad, £1 per week for first twelve months, and 15s.
per week thereafter ; if walking about but unable to
attend employment, 15s. for first twelve months, and
10s. per week thereafter. At the decease of a member
his representatives receive £10 10s. a3 a funeral
allowance.
THE GLASGOW NORTHERN HIGHLAND
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
Instituted 16tb January, 1836.
John A. Matheson, preses ; John Mathieson, ex-
preses ; Donald Murray, John Bannerman, Robert
Ross, Simon Fraser, Hugh M'Pherson, Daniel M'Kay,
Donald M'Lennan, George M'Leod, John A. Mathie-
son, William Mathieson, Donald Mathieson, Alex.
Fraser, directors; Hugh M'Pherson, treasurer; J. M.
Taylor, writer, secretary.
This society was established for the purpose of
supplying, in some measure, the necessities, and con-
tributing towards the relief of distressed natives and
descendants of natives of the northern counties of
Scotland. A contribution of £4 4s. constitutes mem-
bership ; the payment of which may be extended
over the first four years after admission, at the rate
of £L Is. per annum.