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74 PUBLIC OFFICES.
PUBLIC OFFICES.
Barony Parish Statute Labodr Conversion Assessment. Collector's
Office, 3 Royal Exchange Court. — Robert Murdoch, Collector.
Barony Parish Poor Rates and Prisons Assessments. Collector's Office,
52 West Nile Street. — William Robertson, Collector.
Baront Parish Parochial Board, 36 North Albion Street. — John Meek,
Inspector of Poor.
Billet Master's Office, 5 Great Hamilton Street. Any person refusing a
billet subject themselves to a fine of five pounds. — Duncan M'Alpine, Billet-Master.
Attendance from 11 till 2 o'clock.
Bill-of-Entry Office in the Custom House, 69 Great Clyde Street. —
George Shillito.
Cess Office for the City, and for the Counties of Lanark and Dum-
barton, 66 Miller Street.— Thomas P. Sharpe, Collector.
Chamberlain's Office, City Chambers. — John Strang, Chamberlain ; William
Ferguson, Accountant.
City Poor Rate Office, 4 Police Lane. — John Millar, Collector ; A. M'D.
Houstoun, and James Donaldson, Surveyors.
City and Suburban Gas Company's Office, 42 Miller Street. — Works, Dal-
marnock. William Fleming, Secretary ; Hugh Bartholomew, Engineer.
Clyde Trustees' Chambers, 16 Robertson Street.
Commissary Clerk's Office, 41 Virginia Street. — C. D. Donald, Clerk.
Custom-House, 69 Great Clyde Street. — F. W. Vanderkiste, Collector; Andrew
F. Gray, Comptroller ; Andrew Scott, John Scott, Stevenson Hume, Henry Brown,
Andrew H. Crawford, William Cadell, John Robertson, James E. Cobban, Clerks in
the Long Room ; Robert Dees, and George L. Miller, Landing Surveyors ; George
Dews, Jas. L. Johnston, John W. Foubister, William Watt, John Hoggan, William
J. Mathews, George Smith, Colin M. Spalding, Thomas Laidlaw, William T. Nimmo,
John K. Bruce, Currie Elles, and George Ord, Landing Waiters ; Henry W. World,
Comptroller of Accounts and Jerquer ; John Sim, Warehousekeeper ; Allan Ross,
Thomas J. Graham, George Wigmore, John Ross, James Kellar, James F. Dixon,
and Gavin G. Brown, Clerks for General Business ; Thomas Gordon, Hamilton
Cleland, and John Lyall, Tide Surveyors; Alexander Donald, Principal Coast
Officer at Renfrew ; William Campbell, Do. at Bowling Bay ; John Brown, Messen-
ger and Watchman ; James Paul, Superintendent of Lockers and Appointer of
Weighers; 15 Lockers, 16 Weighers, 28 Tidewaiters, and 6 Boatmen. — Hours of
Attendance for the Despatch of Public Business : Inn-door Department, from 10 till
4 ; Out-door and Warehouse Department, from 1st April to 30th September, from 6
to 9 a.m., and from 10 a.m. till 4 P.m., during February, March, October, and No-
vember, from 9 a.m. till 4 p.m. ; and during January and December, from 9
a.m. till 3 p.m. The following Holidays are observed : Christmas-day, Good Friday,
and the Anniversary of the Birthday of her Majesty.
Dean of Guild Court. — James Reddie, Assessor ; John Carrick, Superintendent
of Streets and Buildings ; William G. Crawford, Officer. — Court sits every second
Thursday, at 11 o'clock.
Electric Telegraph Company's Office, 27 Royal Exchange Square.
Excise Office, 45 Dunlop Street. — Robert Smith Sharp, Collector; Mark Wenley,
Henry Spry, and John Russell, Collector's Clerks ; Wm. Swan, Win. Fulton, John
Sage, John Pearson, William Buchanan, Stewart Alexander, and George Birnie,
Supervisors. Export Officer : James Williamson. Packing Officers : Wm. Robinson,
Wm. Webber Sparke, and James Ferguson. John R. Emmerson, Messenger ; Jane
Kennedy, Housekeeper. Permit Writer: John Harrison. Warehousekeepers : Thos.
Halpin, Wm. Poole, Wm. Campbell, Ambrose B. Bell, John Hogarth, James Walton,
and John R. Emmerson.