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RE-DIVIDED AND ALTERED WARDS OF TEE CITY AND ROYAL BURGH OF GLASGOW,
And the order in which each of the Re-arranged or Altered Wards has been substituted
for each of the existing Wards, in
Returning Members to the Town Council in lieu of those who Retire by rotation.
Note. — The Boundaries of the existing or former Wards for Parliamentary Election Purposes have not been
altered by this Re-division.
FIRST WARD OR DISTRICT.
For Parliamentary and Municipal Election Purposes.
That portion of the City and Royal Burgh compre-
hended within a line drawn from a point in the centre
of London Road where the same is intersected by the
Eastern Parliamentary Franchise Boundary Line,
Westward along the centres of London Road, Canning
Street, and Great Hamilton Street, to a point oppo-
site the centre of the North end of Binnie Place ;
thence South-westward in a straight line along Bin-
nie Place and through Glasgow Green to a point in
the centre of the River Clyde, where the same is
intersected by the centre of the line of St. Andrew's
Suspension Bridge ; thence up the centre of the River
Clyde to a point opposite where the same is joined by
Harvie's Dyke ; thence in a straight line along the
Parliamentary Franchise Boundary Line to a point
where the same intersects the centre of London Road,
the point first before described.
(No Alteration on above Boundaries as fixed in 1869.)
SECOND WARD OR DISTRICT.
For Parliamentary and Municipal Election Purposes.
That portion of the City and Royal Burgh com-
prehended within a line drawn from a point in the
centre of Carntyne Road where the same is intersected
by the Eastern Parliamentary Franchise Boundary
Line, Westward along the centres of Carntyne Road
and Duke Street to a point opposite the centre of
Bellgrove Street ; thence Southward along the centres
of Bellgrove Street, Abercromby Street, and Clyde
Street, to the centre of Canning Street; thence East-
ward along the centres of Canning Street and London
Road to a point where London Road is intersected by
the Eastern Parliamentary Franchise Boundary Line ;
thence North-eastward along said Boundary Line to a
point on the Road to Edinburgh, by Airdrie, which is
distant one hundred yards, measured along said Road
to the East of the point at which the same is joined
by the Road to Edinburgh through the Village of
Westmuir; thence North-westward along said Boun-
dary Line to a point where the same intersects the
centre of Carntyne Road, the point first before
described.
(No Alteration on above Boundaries as fixed in 1869.)
THIRD WARD OR DISTRICT.
For Parliamentary Election Purposes only.
That portion oi the City and Royal Burgh com-
prehended within a line drawn from the Cross of
Glasgow, Eastward along the centre of Gallowgate
Street to a point opposite the centre of Bellgrove
Street ; thence Northward along the centre of Bell-
grove Street to the centre of Duke Street ; thence
Eastward along the centres of Duke Street and Carn-
tyne Road to a point where Carntyne Road is in-
tersected by the Eastern Parliamentary Franchise
Boundary Line ; thence North-westward along said
Boundary Line to a point in the centre of the Low
Garngad Road, which is distant one hundred and fifty
yards, measured along said Road to the East of the
Bridge over the Germiston Burn ; thence Westward
along said Boundary Line in the centre of the Low
Garngad Road to the centre of the Bridge over the
Cut of Junction Canal in the line of Castle Street ;
thence Southward along the centre of said Bridge,
Castle Street, Kirk Street, and High Street, to
the Cross of Glasgow, the point first before
described.
(No Alteration on above Boundaries for Parliamentary
Election Purposes as fixed in 1869.)
For Municipal Election Purposes.
That portion of the Parliamentary Burgh of Glas-
gow immediately before described as the Third Ward
or District for Parliamentary Election purposes, to-
gether with those portions of the City and Royal
Burgh comprehended within the following Bounda-
ries, viz. : —
1st. A Line drawn from a point on the Parliamen-
tary Boundary, situate two hundred and seventy-two
yards or thereby,measuring in a North-easterly direction
from the North-east corner of North Haghill House,
and passing in a Northerly, Easterly, and Northerly
direction along the march between Alexandra Park
and the Lands of Easter Kennyhill, to the South side
of the Towing path of the Monkland Canal; thence
along the South side of the Towing path in a Westerly
direction for a distance of five hundred and ninety
yards or thereby, till it meets the Parliamentary
Boundary ; thence along the Parliamentary Boundary
in a straight line in a South-easterly direction to the
point first described.
2nd. A Line drawn from a point on the Parlia-
mentary Boundary of Glasgow, situate in Low Garngad
Road, where the Garngad or Germiston Burn crosses
that Road, and following the Boundary of the ancient
Royalty in a Northerly, Easterly, and North-westerly