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APPENDIX.
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LICENSED BADGE PORTERS.
Name.
Badge No.
Name.
3adge No.
Hector Gillies
I
John M'Geachan, jun.
• 57
Patrick Sweenie .
• 3
William Kane
• 58
Norman M'Leod
. 6
Thomas Grant .
. 62
John Brown
Mark Halliburton
• 9
. ii
James M'Kenna .
John Gregg,
. 64
• 65
William Stewart .
• *5
David Brown
. 80
John Elder .
. 22
William Mitchell
. 82
John M'Cafferty.
. 26
Alexander Gillies
'. 84
Donald M'Intyre
. 28
William M. Turner
. 92
John Simpson
• 43
Hugh Mailey,
. . 96
William Surgeoner
• 52
Patrick Colhain .
. 100
LICENSED PORTERS' TABLE OF RATES AND FARES.
Enacted by the Magistrates of Greenock, March, i8gi.
CHARGES BY DISTANCE. S. D.
For carrying any message or any letter, parcel, box, bag, or case
of any kind, not exceeding in weight 14 lbs., any distance not
exceeding one half-mile, . . . . . . .04
And for each additional half-mile or part of same, . . .02
For any burden exceeding 14 lbs. but not exceeding 56 lbs., for
any distance not exceeding one half-mile, . . . .06
Ar.d for each additional half-mile or part of same, . . .04
For any burden exceeding 56 lbs. but not exceeding 112 lbs., for
any distance not exceeding one half-mile, . . . .08
And for each additional half-mile or part of same, . . .04
For any load on a barrow or other vehicle exceeding I cwt. but
not exceeding 3 cwt. , for any distance not exceeding one half-
mile, when it is not necessary to ascend with such load any
steep street or road, . . . . . . . .010
And for each additional half-mile or part of same, subject always
to the above mentioned condition, . . . . .06
For any load, within the limits as to weight last above mentioned,
in the conveyance of which the porter requires to ascend a
steep street or road, the total charge for the first half-mile or
part of a half-mile shall not exceed . . . . .16
And for each additional half-mile, or part of a half-mile, any part
of which is steep, . . . . . . . . .09
Note. — Between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. a porter may charge fare and
half-fare.
CHARGES BY TIME. S. D.
A porter employed by time, whether in removing furniture or in
carrying or conveying either samples or patterns or goods or
articles for commercial travellers, or luggage for other travel-
lers, in weight not exceeding 3 cwt., or in assisting to load,
unload, or weigh goods, or in beating carpets or the like at any
time between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., shall be entitled to charge
for the first hour, or part of an hour when employed less than
an hour, . . . . . . . . . . I O
And for each additional half-hour or part of same, . . .04