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George Robb, 36, Shiprow
George Pirie, Weigh-liouse squaie
James Saint, Concert court, Broad street
James Davidson, tS, Commercial court, Castle street
Alexander Fenton, 16, Shiprow
George Wilson, 16, Shiprow
Alexander Hardie, 6, Marischal street
John Shepperd, Water house, Union place
William Christie, Woolmanhill
William Gardner, 10, Brebner's court, Castle street
James Stewart, 24, Lodge walk
James Bremner, Convener of Firemen, 44, Guestrow
* # * In cases of fire, notice should instantly be given at the Watch-
house (back of the Town-house), so that the Engines may be des-
patched without delay.
LIST OF THE SHORE-PORTERS.
Those having the letter s attached to their names are Keepers
and Carriers of the Sedan Chairs.
* Alex. Hardy, 6, Marischal Street, Deacon
George Jamieson, 55, Shiprow I Joseph Hendry, 16, St. Ca-
Geo. Carnegie, Sutherland's ' therine Court, Shiprow
Court, 17, James Street William Caie, 55, Shiprow
James Saint, Concert Court, i James Davidson, Crown and
Broad Street Eagle Court, 58, Castle St.
Joseph Jamieson, St. Cathe Alex. Fenton, 16, Shiprow
rine Court, 16, Shiprow Geo. Milne, 34, do.
Robert Forbes, do. do. Alex. Milne, St. Catherine
George Shireffs, 12, Stronach's \ Court, 16, Shiprow
Close Archd. Clark, 54, do-
s James Milne, St. Catherine | Geo. Wilson, St. Catherine
Court, 16, Shiprow Court, 16, Shiprow
John Wilson, do. do. s W. JBuchah, 10, Carmelite st.
s A. Skinner, 8, Exchequer Row j George Robb, 36, Shiprow
A. Pirie, Exchequer Court, 9, , John Smith, sen. Red-lion
Exchequer Row Court
s Geo. Pine, Weigh house Sq. I James Chasser, do. do.
Robert Brown, 7, do. Robert Lamb, 69, Shiprow
s John Smith, jun. St. Catherine court, 16, Shiprow, Convener.
BILLETING OF SOLDIERS.
William Mackie, Queen Street, Billet-master.
Previous to 1837, the billeting of soldiers was extended to only six
classes of the inhabitants, viz. bakers, brewers, butchers, gardeners,
mealsellers, and spirit-dealers ; but the Council, after correspond-
ing with the public authorities in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and
Dundee, and other towns, procuring various returns from the
billet-masters, and examining the Acts of Parliament and the de-
cisions of the supreme courts upon the subject, extended the billet-
ing, by Act of Council, of date 27th March, 1837, over the whole
inhabitants generally within the city, freedom, and liberties, who
are rated in the Police books at £5 and upwards, with the exception
of ministers, professors, schoolmasters, widows, and unmarried la-
dies not in business on their own account, and paupers; and the
billeting in this city and suburbs proceeds in terms of the said Act
of Council. The billeting is levied in the order of the Wards, and
the whole city must be gone over in this way before those billeted
on in the First Ward have to pay a second time. It frequently hap-
pens, however, that the same person may be billeted on twice be-
fore the whole of the Wards are exhausted, for there does not ap
pear to be any provision made for exempting a person who has paid
a billet in the First Ward in May, from paying another should he
remove to the Second Ward in June.