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APPENDIX
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TO
FOWLER'S
PAISLEY DIRECTORY.
TO MANAGERS OF SOCIETIES.
Those who wish their Societylinserterly will -please send notice, he-
fore ]st May, to the Publisher, with the date of Erection, the title of
Society, the names of the Treses, Treasurer, Clerk, and Officer, with
the name and No. of the street in which they reside; also the date of
Election of Office hearers. Such notices require to be accurate, as
they are inserted verbatim. Attending to this notice will be found a
great convenience to members of Societies, and enable the Publisher
to make the lists more complete. All Communications, post-paid, will
be regularly attended to.
As much delay and unnecessary trouble has been occasioned by Sc^
cieties and other public bodies not givirig in their lists, the Publisher
intimates, that lr^LESS the same be regularly forwarded, he will not be
accountable for omissions.
Population of Paisley within the bounds specified in the Reform
Act, Forty-six Thousand One Hundred and Ninety-nine-
Number of qualified Voters for a Representative in Parliament,
One Thousand Two Hundred and Forty-two.
The Constituency of Paisley at the time of the first election of
Magistrates, under the Reform Act, amounted to about Eleven
Hundred and Eighty, of which Nine Hundred and Eighty-three
voted, and One Hundred and Ninety-eight did not vote. Two of
the Old Councillors were returned, the other Fourteen were new.
The Magistrates are all new.
Magistrates and Town Council of Paisley,
William Hardie, Esq. Provost.
Robert Patison,
Robert Hendry,
William Jeffrey,
James Clark,
Johii Henderson, Esq. Treasurer.
Esq^rs. Baillies>
COUNCILLORS.
Messrs. John Orr
Robert Cochran
Alex. Carlile
James Drummond
Messrs William Brown
John Dunlop
Robert Bisset
Thomas Calderwood
Dewar Watson.
J. R. Callender, Chamberlain.
Gavin Lang, Town Clerk.
John Hart, Procuratot Fiscal.
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