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For weighing each bag of cotton - - 1
For taking .down and putting up the scales, if done by the
Porters - - - - - - 1
For carrying each bag of cotton out of a cellar, and putting
it on a cart, - - - - - 2
For taking each bag of cotton off a cart, and putting the
same into a cellar, - - - - 1
N". B. Two thirds pf the foregoing rates to be paid for
pockets and bags of cotton, not exceeding one and an half
hundred weight.
For a day's work at., articles not specified as above, to
consist of ten working hours, - - - 2 O
For a week's work, - - - 10' O
For the first hours work when not employed a whole day, 4
For each subsequent hour's work, when not employed
a whole day, - - •
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For carrying a load of two boils of meal, for each stair I
For carrying a load of t wo bolls of meal into a closs,
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For each night's watching, - -
REGULATIONS FOR COAL-PORTERS,
As Jixed by the Magistrates, 15?h January, 1807.
2 O
s. d.
For carrying a cart of coals up ' stairs, "rh^re Ihedii lance
from the stair to where the coals lye is not more than 60 t'evt,
for th« first stair, - - - 3
For every other stair, - * • - 1-^
For carrying a waggon of coals up stairs, the same distance
as above, for the first -stair, - - 6
For every other stair, - - - 3
For carrying a cart of coals from any street or lane, to a
(JfcUa^ within twenty feet fioni where the coals iye, if not
down a stair, - -
U down a stair, an additional
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If above twenty, and not exceeding sixty feet, - 3
For every additional stair, - - - 1
For half the distances and so in proportion, - -|
For carrying a waggon of coals from any street or lane,
the same distance as above, into t. cellar, if not down a stair, O 4
If down a stair, - - 5
If above twenty and not exceeding sixty feet, - 6
If down a siair, - • - - 7
For every additional sixty feet, for each cart,
For each waggjo&i - - -
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3
N. B, Coal porters to report thei* names to the town- clerks, ami
to takeovt a Badge, whicn they shall wear, under a penalty of 5s.
"they shall be furnished with a copy of the Regulations, under a
penalty of 5»i— Refusing to work, when not engaged, or demanding
more than specified in the Table, 5s,