17th September, 1833, and the ancient law of the House -members of the incorporations of maltmen and gardeners, under the ancient law, and dyers and bonnet makers, under the bye-law of 7th October, 1833, being qualified to be elected, and to sit as representatives in the House, although not resident, or in possession of a place of business within the royalty or parliamentary district of Glasgow." This area was extended to the municipal area of Glasgow in 1882. (See minutes quoted in memorial to Dr. Kirkwood, Chapter XIII.)

II. Enacted on 21st May, 1838, that "All vacancies which shall occur in the representation of the House by the death or resignation of the representative or otherwise, shall be filled up, by election, by the incorporation represented—the election to proceed at a general meeting of the trade called for the purpose."

12. Enacted on 28th September, 1849, that “Each incorporation shall, in reporting the election of a representative to the House, certify in the minute of election whether the person elected is a trades burgess of Glasgow or has paid to the House the entry-money of two guineas."

13. Enacted on 21st April, 1857, that "The several deacons, and the visitor and representatives of the several incorporations, shall, before being received or qualified as members of the House, exhibit to the House, or to the deacon-convener and clerk of the House, their burgess ticket of the craft rank, or, if a merchant burgess, the receipt for payment of two guineas to the House."

The following Table shows the sum requiring to be paid for the Burgess Ticket referred to in Regulation No. 13, and the apportionment of the entry-money:

* If merchants the sum goes to Merchants' and not to Trades' House.

NOTE.-Far hand means a person entering for the first time in his own right, near hand means a son or son-in-law of an already admitted member.

CHAPTER XIII.

ACT 9 VICT., CAP. 17 (1846) ABOLISHING EXCLUSIVE

PRIVILEGES OF TRADING IN BURGHS-REGULATIONS RENDERED

NECESSARY IN CONSEQUENCE-PROPOSAL

TO ALTER BYE-LAWS ENACTED UNDER THE ACT OF

1833.

By this Act the exclusive privileges of carrying on or dealing in merchandise, and of carrying on or exercising certain trades or handicrafts by guilds, crafts, or incorporations within burghs, were abolished. The Act will be found in the Appendix.

Mr. Crawfurd, the historian of the Trades' House, says many persons believed that their abolition would lead to the decay of the incorporations.

The dean of guild and his council had, according to Mr. Crawfurd, previously resolved not to enforce the law which required persons to enter as burgesses before carrying on any trade of buying or selling, or any craft; and under those altered circumstances the Trades' House enacted the following bye-laws:

13. Enacted on 28th September, 1849, that "Merchant burgesses of Glasgow, and all other persons who are, or may become, members of any of the incorporated trades, may be admitted members of the convenery upon paying two guineas to the Trades' House, and shall thereby

become eligible for holding office in the Trades' House, and for the enjoyment of all other privileges of the convenery."

14. Enacted on 28th September, 1849, that "It shall not be lawful to any incorporation to admit or qualify any person as a member, unless such person shall be a trades' burgess, or shall have paid two guineas to the Trades' House of entry-money to the convenery."

Under these bye-laws several persons, holding burgess tickets as merchants, paid £2 2s. to the Trades' House instead of the guildry fine of two pounds payable at entering as a trades' burgess, and thereby became. enabled lawfully to enter with any of the incorporated trades as guild brethren of the craft rank, and, at the same time, to retain their position as guild brethren of the merchant rank, and members of the Merchant House.

This was believed to be a liberal measure, by superseding the old law, which prohibited a man from being a member of both ranks; and it was reciprocated by the dean of guild and Merchant House, who freely admitted burgesses of the craft rank to be members of that corporation without compelling them to pay a second guildry fine.

The Merchant House had, at different times, raised its entry-money of £5, first by adding to it £4, as the purchase-money of immunity from the payment of 4s. a-year of quarter accounts, and thereafter by increasing that 4 to ten guineas, at which it now stands, in

addition to the original payment of £5 as the guildry fine.

The above bye-law of the Trades' House added two shillings only to the original guildry fine of £2; and for payment of this two shillings, in addition to the original £2, a merchant burgess is enabled to avoid the forfeiture not only of the £5 and £10 10s. he paid to the Merchant House, and the £2 18s. 3d. he paid to the magistrates and council at entering a burgess of that rank, but is allowed to retain his position as a member of the Merchant House, is enabled to become a guild brother of the craft rank, and to enjoy all the benefits of both ranks..

Much looseness, says Mr. Crawfurd, however, continued to prevail in several of the incorporations on the subject of admitting members, and to correct the evils arising from the prevalence of different practices in several of the incorporations, the House enacted the following byelaws:

15. Enacted on 21st April, 1857, that "It shall not be lawful to any incorporation, or to the deacon or masters thereof, to admit, enrol, or receive as a member any person whatever who is not a burgess of Glasgow, either of the merchant rank or of the trades rank, and who does not, at his admission, prove the fact by exhibiting his ticket, or a proper certificate of burgess-ship."

16. Enacted on 21st April, 1857, that "It shall not be lawful to any person who now is, or who shall be hereafter admitted, a member of any of the fourteen incorporations of Glasgow, to hold office as deacon or