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LOCAL AND COUNTY INSTITUTIONS.
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BRIDGE TRUSTEES.
The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council
of the City of Glasgow.
Additional Trustees on the Bridges, appointed by the
Counties of Renfrew and Ayr respectively.
Renfrew — Lord Blantyre, Erskine House ; Sir M.
R. S. Stewart, Bart., Ardgowan, Greenock; Sir W.
S. Maxwell, Bart. ; J. Gordon of Aikenhead ; J. G.
B. Graham of Craigallion, Barrhead ; T. Richardson
of Ralston; A. Gilmour of Eaglesham ; A. Campbell
of Blythswood.
Ayr — P. Boyle of Shewalton, Irvine; G. Somer-
vell, Sorn Castle.
Committee on the Bridges — The Lord Provost,
Bailie Watson, Bailie Burt, the Dean of Guild, tire
Deacon-Convener, Sir W. S. Maxwell, Bart. ; J.
Brown, A. Collie, J. Couper, J. G. B. Graham, R.
Lochore, W. M'Onie, J. Mitchell, T. Richardson, J.
Taylor, jun., W. Taylor, J. Ure, W. White. J.
Mitchell, convener ; W. Taylor, sub-convener. Three
a quorum.
The Town-Clerks, secretaries ; W. W. Watson,
treasurer and superintendent of bridges.
GLASGOW CORPORATION WATER WORKS
ACT.
Commissioners — The Lord Provost, Magistrates,
and Town Council.
Water Committee — The Lord Provost, Bailie
Millar, Bailie Osborne, Bailie Macdonald, J. M'Intyre,
J. Moncur, A. Neilson, W. Bannerman, A. Collie,
J. Brown, J. Chalmers, J. Torreus, A. H. MacLellan,
J. Young, H. Lamberton, W. Scott, J Taylor, jun. ;
the Lord Provost, convener ; J. Brown, sub-convener.
Seven a quorum.
W. Guthrie, treasurer; J. M. Gale, engineer; D.
Guthrie, assistant engineer; , clerk.
MASTERS EXTRAORDINARY AND COMMIS-
SIONERS FOR TAKING AFFIDAVITS.
ENGLISH COURTS.
Chancery. — J. M'Clure, W. R. Buchan, J. H.
Johnston, D. Paul, W. Fleming, T. Nicholson, J. B.
Dill, J. Muirhead, G. Roy, and J. Maxton.
Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Ex-
chequer. — W. Fleming, John B. Dill, J. Muir-
head, G. Roy, and J. Maxton.
Bankruptcy. — J. M'Clure, W. Fleming, D.
Paul, J. B. Dill, J. Muirhead, and J. Maxton.
Probate and Divorce. — W. FlemiDg, J. B.
Dill, J. Muirhead, and J. Maxton.
IRISH COURTS.
Bankruptcy. — J. Marshall, jun., and R. Brodie.
Chancery. — J. Marshall, jun., and R. Brodie.
Exchequer and Common Pleas. — J. Marshall,
jun.
Landed Estates. — J. Marshall, jun.
Queen's Bench. — J. Marshall, jun.
Probate. — J. Marshall, jun.
COMMISSIONERS FOR PROPERTY AND
INCOME TAX
FOR THE CITY OF GLASGOW.
Sir James Campbell, John Mitchell, John Bain,
James Scott, James Hannan, Peter Clouston, and
Alexander Ronaldson ; clerk to Commissioners, Robt.
Donald ; assessors, John Buchanan and R. M'Murray;
office, 13 Queen Street.
commissioners of the lower ward op
lanarkshire (city excepted)
Sheriffs Bell, Dickson, Murray, Galbraith, and
Clark ; Robert Galbraith, David Dreghorn, Wm. J.
Davidson of Ruchill, Robert Bartholomew, Mark
Sprot, Alexander Dick, William Graham, John C.
Christie, George Alston, John Finlay, and Thomas
M'Call; clerk, John Pyle; office, 69 St. Vincent
Street, assessors, J. Mitchell, William Smith, and
Thomas C. Ross.
Income Tax Collector's Office for the
City and for the Counties of Lanark and
Dumbarton, 13 Queen Street, George M'Callum,
collector.
Property and Income Tax Surveyor's Of-
fice, 13 Queen Street ; open on Mondays and Wed-
nesdays from 10 till 3.
Stamp Office, 13 Queen Street, Geo. M'Callum,
distributor; open from 10 till 4 o'clock, and shut on
Saturdays at 12 o'clock.
JUSTICE OF PEACE COURTS.
Sittings of the Small Debt Court, everv Tuesday
and Friday at 11 o'clock in the Justices' Hall,
County Buildings, 117 Brunswick Street. Sittings
for summary proceedings and criminal cases in the
Justices' Hall, on Monday and Thursday at eleven
o'clock. Business is transacted in the Clerk's office,
County Buildings, 111 Brunswick Street, Glasgow,
every day from 9 a.m. till 5 p.m., Saturday excepted,
when the office shuts at 2 p.m. George Crawfurd,
clerk of the peace ; George Gray, depute-clerk ;
Robert Duncan Douglas, procurator fiscal; James
Walker, bar-officer.
SMALL DEBT COURT OF THE JUSTICES.
This Court, on six days' inducise, decides claims
of £5 and under, sits every Tuesday and Friday, at
11 o'clock forenoon, in the Small Debt Court, Jus-
tices' Hall, County Buildings, 117 Brunswick Street.
Two Justices are the Judges. Summonses and war-
rants are issued for the Lower Ward of Lanarkshire
at the Justice of Peace Clerk's Office, County Build-
ings, entering by 111 Brunswick Street. George
Crawfurd, clerk of the peace ; George Gray, depute-
clerk.
SHERIFF SMALL DEBT COURTS,
For the recovery of debts not exceeding £12, sit
every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, for Glas-
gow, on Tuesdays for Lanark and Airdrie, and Fri-
days for Hamilton, and have jurisdiction over the
whole of Lanarkshire. The defenders are cited be-
fore this court on an induciae of six days ; warrants
to arrest on the dependence are issued ; the decree
may be extracted, and arrestments used upon it
instantly ; and it may be enforced in all cases by
poinding and sale of the debtor's effects, and when
above £8 6s. 8d. by imprisonment, ten free days
after its date, if granted in presence, and ten days
after a charge, if granted in absence. In case of the
debtor removing to a different county, the decree
may be enforced against him there, on being endorsed
by the Sheriff Clerk of that county. Judges — Sheriff
and Sheriff-Substitutes of the county.
Note. — An Act was passed in 1840 abolishing
imprisonment for debts under £8 6s. 8d., excepting
claims of aliment, &c.