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Carrying a letter or letters, parcel or parcels, not exceeding
7 pounds weight, from any part of the City or Newtown to
Anderston, Bridgetown, New Basin of the Canal, or any place
not exceeding an English mile from the Cross, - OS
If delivered to the Porter after eight o'clock at night, 1 O
For running an express with a letter, or small parcel, for
every Engli>h mile outwards in day time, - -06
If in the night time, that is, after eight o'clock at night, 9
Carrying a back load, not exceeding ?ight English stone,
from any ware-room in Glasgow, to any other ware-room or
calender, where the distance does not exceed 500 yards, 4
Do. where the distance exceeds 500 yards, - 6
Carrying a back load, not exceeding 8 stone weight, from
the Cross to the Brpomielaw, Calton or Gorbals, or the like
distance, - - - 6
Carrying any load not exceeding 2^ hundred weight, on a
wheel-barrow, for the same distance, - - - 9
For vi^eighing a ton of goods, such as iron, &c. for the first
ton, - - - - - - -10
For every other ton, - - . - 10
For weighing each bag of cotton, - - - O 1§
For carrying each bag of cotton out of a cellar, and putting
it on a cart, - - - - - 5
For taking each bag of cotton off a cart, and putting the
same into a cellar, - - - - 3
N. B. Two-thirds of the foregoing rates to be paid for
pockets and bags of cotton, not exceeding one and a half hundred
weight.
For a day's work at articles not specified as above, to consist
of ten working hours, - - - -50
For a week's work, - - - - 20 O
For the first hour's vs^ork when not employed a whole day, 8
For each subsequent hour's work, when not employed a
whole day, - - - - - 6
For carrying a load of two bolls of meal, for each stair, 2
For carrying a load of two bolls of meal into a close, 2
For each night's watching, = - - - 4
REGULATIONS FOR COAL PORTERS,
Fixed hy the Magistrates, 15th January, 1807.
For carrying a cart of coals up stairs, where the distance
from the stair to where the coals lie is not more than 60 feet, s. d.
for the first stair, - » _ - _ OS
For every other stair, - - - . o 1|