Counties > Renfrewshire > 1829-1842 - Fowler's commercial directory of the principal towns and villages in the upper ward of Renfrewshire > 1829-1830

TOWN DUES.
Leviable by the Tacksmen of the Custom Booth, Meal Market, and
Fairs ; on Goods brought to Town for Sale.
Authorised by Crown Charter of 1448.
Those Articles within Parenthesis to be weighed by the Custom-men
if required.
(Any quantity of Salt Butter below a stone — each stone of Fish)
— each Cheese below 161b. — each cog or kit of Butter, with-
out the Milk, — each draught of Milk, with or without Butter |r/
Each stone of Cheese — each Barrel of Herring - - - |
(Each stone of Butter) — each horse-load of fruit or Potatoes, —
each Gardener's stand in the Green Market, or other stands
of Merchandize — each ditto at Public Fairs— each load of
Kail Plants — each horse, Mare, Gelding, Colt, or Cow,
coming to the Market at Fairs, payable by the exposer - 1
Payable by the buyer when bought, - - - - - 1
Each horse-load of Salt exposed to sale, - - - - 1|
Each load of Sheaf Lint or Hemp — each pack of Wool — each
single cart of potatoes — each load of Meal, Beans, Pease, or
Barley, - - - 2
Each load of Meal brought into Town for family use, - - 2
Each double cart of Potatoes, - - - - - 3
Each single cart of Fruit, - . . . . . 4
Each single cart of Salt — each hogshead of Flax Seed, - - 6
EGGS.
Six dozen, and all below,. .1 egg.
From7to 12 doz. inclusive, 2 eggs
IStolS 3 —
19to24 4 —
25 to 30 5 —
From 31 to 36 doz. inclus. 6 eggs
37to40 7 —
41 to 45 8 —
46to50 9 —
And so on in proportion.
Resident Burgeses to pay one half of the above.
WEIGHING CHARGES.
Each bag of Cotton above 1 cwt.
Each bag of Cotton below 1 cwt.
Brass or Copper, per stone.
Lint, Hemp, or Wool, per stone.
Lead, Iron, Tallow, Butcher Meat,
Bleaching stuffs, per stone,
Soap, Ashes, and other
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Adjusters of Imperial Weights and Measures.
Dry Measures, Matthew Armour, 157 Causeyside.
Liquid Measures, Alexander Fullerton, 237 High street.
Weights, . . Reid and Hanna, 4 Orr street