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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
OLD MAN'S FRIEND SOCIETY.
Andrew Galbraith, president ; R. Monteith of
Carstairs, Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell of Keir, J. G.
Fleming, M.D., vice-presidents; Wm. G. Mitchell,
14 Windsor Terrace, secretary; W. M'Ewen, 17 St.
Vincent Lane, treasurer; Dr. R. D. Tannahill, 106
Bath Street, surgeon; the Deacon-convenor of the
Trades' House, the Visitor of the Incorporation of
Maltmen,the Deacon of the Incorporation of Weavers,
honorary members ; J. M'Ewen, J. J. Wright, W.
Connal, J. Hannan, W. Euing, W. Kerr, Frank
Baird, J. B. Kidston, D. M'Cowan, J. B. Murray,
D. Wilson, J. Stevenson, H. Brown, G. Thompson,
J. Brown, jun., J. M. Hill, A. Miller, J. S. Miller,
J. A. Wenley, W. Holmes, A. Hannay, J. Bell, com-
mittee ; Jas. Fleming, superintendent of asylum.
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SOCIETY OF
SCOTLAND.
Office, 8 Prince's Square, Glasgow.
James Campbell, Esq., yr. of Stracathro, president;
D. Mitchell, 72 Glassford Street, vice-president ; J.
Gourlay, treasurer ; John C. Reid, C.A , 8 Prince's
Square, secretary and deputy-treasurer ; T. Marr,
A.I.A., 39 St. Vincent Place, actuary; Professor
Wm. Leishman, M.D., 156 Bath Street, surgeon;
Professor Douglas Maclagan, M.D., 28 Heriot Row,
surgeon for Edinburgh and its vicinity ; Messrs. Geo.
M'Leod, A. Mellish, A. H. Robertson, J. Hodge, A.
M'Kenzie, Jas. Irons, J. Moffat, Alex. Dunbar, Geo.
Hodge, Jas. Anderson, Wm. Wight, Joseph Fisher,
directors ; M'Grigor, Stevenson, & Fleming, 136 St.
Vincent Street, law agents.
A member of this society who has been 12 months
enrolled, on being incapacitated by disease, accident,
or infirmity, from following las usual avocation, 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 on the fourth Friday of January. The
directors meet on the first Tuesday of each month.
Number of members, 1086 ; annual contributions
of members, £2266 15s.; total annual income,
£3269 19s. 9d. ; amount of funds invested or in bank,
£23,683 Is. lid. ; benefits paid since the formation
of the society, £19,289. Forms of application and
other information may be had of the secretary.
CITY OF GLASGOW NATIVE BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION.
G. Lumsden, Esq., 198 Bath Street, president;
A. Dennistounof Golf hill ; the Hon. Sir J. Lumsden ;
Sir A. Orr, vice-presidents.
Extraordinary directors — T. Buchanan of Well-
shot, H. Glassford Bell, R. Dalglish, M.P., J.
Middleton, A. Bannatyne, W. Euing, M. Connal,
W. Buchanan, J. Hannan, W. Graham, M.P., A.
Orr Ewing, M.P., W. J. Davidson.
Ordinary directors — J. Campbell of Tillichewan,
W. Millar, D. More, P. Hamilton, D. Cross, J. Dunn,
F. Baird, W. Kerr, J. M'Lean, A. Arthur, J.
Wallace, and J. M. Cuthbertson.
Trustees — R. Bartholomew, J. Blackie, jun., J.
Gilmour, A. Glasgow, J. Burns, Sir J. Lumsden, G.
Lumsden, J. Couper, J. Burns Kidston, W. Stirling,
J. Campbell of Tillichewan, and W. J. Davidson.
J. E. Watson, 33 Renfield Street, treasurer; J.
B. Kidston, 50 West Regent Street, secretary.
GLASGOW SOCIETY OF SONS OF MINISTERS
OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND,
Was instituted 1790; Incorporated by a Charter
from the City of Glasgow, 1791.
Their annual meeting is held on the last Thursday
of March.
Colonel Archibald J. Lockhart, Edinburgh, presi-
dent; Adam Paterson, L.L.D , secretary; William
Auld, treasurer; Rev. Dr. G. S. Burns, Harvie
Anderson, Rev. Dr. Grant, Rev. Henry D. Hill,
Robert M'Gowan, Principal Barclay, David Mar-
shall Lang, Rev. Donald Maclecd, Rev. John R.
Campbell, Monzievaird, council ; stated according
to official seniority.
The stated meetings are on the last Thursday of
July and November, and on the Thursday before the
annual meeting. They grant no permanent pension.
Applications for pecuniary aid must be made every
year, and lodged with the secretary before the 1st of
March. The following facts must be distinctly at-
tested on personal knowledge by respectable persons
to whom they are known : — 1. That the applicants
are children of a minister of the Church of Scotland,
whose fathers are dead. 2. The age, progress in
education, destination, prospects, or employment of
each child in the family, old or young. 3. How
they have hitherto been supported, and the means of
their present subsistence, of whatever kind, whether
certain or precarious, and generally that the facts set
forth in the petitions are truly stated in all respects.
Applicants to appuint some person in town to call
on the secretary, 45 West George Street, on the first
Tuesday of April, for answers to their petitions.
The society are also trustees on the late Miss
Janet Paisley's Trust Fund, for the benefit of the
daughters of deceased clergymen of the Church of
Scotland.
NIGHT ASYLUM FOR THE HOUSELESS,
AND HOUSE OF INDUSTRY FOR INDI-
GENT FEMALES.
North Frederick Street.
J. Campbell, president ; the Hon. W. Rae Arthur,
Sir J. Lumsden, and J. Goodwin, vice-presidents;
J. Brown, jun., treasurer; J. M'Clure, secretary;
Dr. W. M'Gill, surgeon; J. M'Whirter, superinten-
dent; J. M'Lelland, clerk. 36 directors.
House of Industry — Miss Kemp, matron.
GLASGOW NORTH BRITON'S FRIENDLY
SOCIETY.
Instituted in 1823.
This Society has for its object the relief of its
Members who may be incapable of attending to
business through sickness, &c, and for securing at
death a payment for Funeral Expenses. The Society
has a large capital, securely invested. The Sick
Allowance after one year's probation, is 10s. weekly
for thirteen weeks, 7s. 6d. for thirteen weeks, 5s. for
thirteen weeks, and 3s. weekly while the indisposi-
tion continues, and Ten Pounds for Funeral Expenses.
The meetings of the Society are held in the Religious
Institution Rooms, on the second Tuesday of Feb-
ruary, May, August, and November. A. G. Max-
well, 109 North Hanover Street, president; N. Sin-
clair, 29 Hutcheson Street, treasurer; J. Paul,
writer, 6 South Hanover Street, secretary ; M. Marr,
actuary; D. Calderwood, surgeon; D. Drummond,
officer.