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serve and the hour of their engagement, under the penalties afore-
said. As the Porters who wear badges on their breast, find secu-
rity for their honesty and fidelity, the Magistrates recommend it
to the inhabitants to employ only those Porters in matters of importance,—The
following is a Table of their fees;
S. d.
Carrying a letter or letters, parcel or parcels, not exceeding
7 pounds weight, from any part of the City or Newtovyn
to any other place therein,. - - o 1
Carrying a letter or letters, parcel or parcels, not exceeding
7 pounds weight, from any part of the City or Newtown,
to any other place therein, if delivered to the Porter
after nine o'clock at night, - o a
Carrying a letter or letters, parcel or parcels, not exceeding
1 pounds weight, from any part of the city or Newtown
to Anderston, Bridgeton, New Bason of the Canal,
or any place not exceeding an English mile from the Cross, 3
If delivered to the Porter after eight o'clock at night, o 4
For running an express with a letter, or small parcel, for
every English mile outwards in day time, - 02
If in the night time, that is, after eight o'clock at night, o 4
Carrying a back load, not exceeding eight English stone,
from any ware-room in Glasgow to any other ware-room or
calender, where- the distance does net exceed 500 yards, o 1
Do. where the distance exceeds 500 yirds, - o z
Carrying a back load, not exceeding 8 stone weight, from
the cross to the Broomielaw, Calton or Gorbab, or die like
distance, - - -03
Carrying any load, not exceeding a^-- hundred weight, on
a wheel-barrow, for the same distance, - 03
For weighing a ton of goods, such as iron, &c. for the first
ton, - - -04
For every other ton, - - -03
For taking down and putting up the scales, - 02
For weighing each hag of cotton, - o s
For taking down and putting up the scales, if done by the
Porters, - - - - o a
For carrying each bag of cotton out of a cellar, and putting
it on a cart, - - - o a
For taking each bag of cotton off a cart, and putting the
same into a cellar, - » -01
N. B, Two-thirds of 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, - - « o
For a week's work, - - 10 o
For the first hour's work where not employed a whole day, O 4
For each subsequent hour's work, when not employed a
"Whole day, - - -03
For carrying a load of two bolls of meal, for each stair, »