collector of the incorporation, or to be elected its representative in the Trades' House, or to be delegate on the Gorbal lands, or a director of the Trades' School, or a member of the committee for the management of the Trades' Hall Buildings, or to be recommended as, or admitted or enrolled, a pensioner on the funds of the House, or to share in any way in its privileges, unless he is a burgess of Glasgow of the craft rank, of the class of the incorporation to be represented by him, or shall have paid, or shall pay to the Trades' House two guineas, or such other sum as shall be exigible at the time as the entry-money as a guild brother of the craft rank of that class."

17. Enacted on 21st April, 1857, "In the view of preserving a record of the persons who shall hereafter be admitted burgesses of the craft rank, and of merchant burgesses who are admitted guild brethren of that rank by payment to the House of the foresaid entry-money, the town-clerks shall, in accounting to the House for the sums paid to them as entry-money, be requested to give, in August yearly, a list of the names of every person who has entered a burgess of the craft rank during the preceding year, stating in columns the trade for which he entered, whether as son, son-in-law, or apprentice of a freeman burgess, or at the far hand, and the entry-money and bucket-money paid by each."

18. Enacted on 21st April, 1857, that "The clerk of the House shall enrol those names and all those particulars, and also the names of all merchant burgesses

who shall enter guild brethren of the craft rank, by paying two guineas to the House, in a book, to be prepared and preserved as a record of the persons qualified to hold office in the Trades' House and the incorporations."

19. Enacted on 21st April, 1857, that "The several deacons, and the visitor, and representatives of the several incorporations, shall, before being received and 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 the two guineas to the House."

The Incorporation of Cordiners in 1881 unanimously memorialised the Trades' House on the subject of the inapplicability of the before-mentioned bye-laws passed in 1833 and 1835 to the present changed circumstances, and urged the House to consider the matter, especially having regard to the present position of the craft brought about by the Statute of 1846 abolishing the exclusive privileges which the crafts had of carrying on or exercising their trade or handicraft within the burgh, with a view to amended rules being enacted to suit such changed circumstances.

The House having taken no action upon the memorial, and the writer having, with the co-operation of his colleagues in the House, tabled a motion on the subject, which is quoted in the memorial after-mentioned, it was remitted to the Bye-laws Committee of the House.

Prior to the matter being taken up by the committee, the colleagues of the writer suggested to him the

propriety of his preparing a memorandum explanatory of the motion. This the writer did. Prints of this memorandum were sent to all the members of the Trades' House. The following is the memorandum :—

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MEMORANDUM EXPLANATORY OF MR. CAMPBELL'S
MOTION FOR ALTERATION OF BYE-LAWS.

"Motion:-That this House resolve to amend the following Rules and Regulations of the House, viz. :'Delete from Rule 7, enacted by this House on 7th October, 1833, and also from Rule 10, enacted by this House on 9th October, 1835, all as printed in Mr. Crawfurd's Sketch of the Trades' House at pages 123 and 124, the following words occurring after the words 'place of business,' viz., 'within the Parliamentary, district of Glasgow specified in the Act 2nd and 3rd William IV., to amend the representation of the people of Scotland, or within any part of the Royalty of Glasgow not comprehended by that district,' and insert instead in these Rules after the words 'place of business,' the following words, For whose avocation or calling is within the City of Glasgow as at present defined by Act of Parliament, or as may be defined by any future Act of Parliament.""

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"At the last meeting of the Trades' House of Glasgow, the above motion was proposed by Mr. Campbell, and referred to the Bye-laws Committee to consider and report to the House. In order to save time, and enable every member of the House to understand the full scope

of the motion, Mr. Campbell respectfully submits the following remarks thereon for their consideration:

"The necessity for the alteration of the bye-laws arises from the fact that such bye-laws were enacted so long ago as 1833 and 1835, and, while they met the then existing state of matters, they fail to meet the altered circumstances of the present day, as will be shortly explained.

"The City of Glasgow, prior to the year 1800, embraced only the ancient royalty, which was but a small portion of the present municipal city.

"In the year 1800 the royalty and municipal city was extended so as to include a portion of the Barony Parish, then in the county. By subsequent sundry Acts of Parliament the municipal city was again extended over and embraced portions of the lands of Blythswood. When the bye-laws were enacted in 1833 and 1835, the municipal city for which the Town Council and Deacon-Convener were elected, and to which alone the burgess ticket applied, and in which alone the exclusive privilege of trading engaged in by the crafts could be carried onextended to under a half of the area of the present Parliamentary burgh, the boundaries of which were fixed by the Parliamentary Reform Act of 1832, an Act which deals with boundaries of burghs and the franchises thereby created for Parliamentary purposes only. Consequently this Act has no connection with municipal franchises, rights, privileges, and immunities, or Trades' House matters in any way whatever. It may be also observed that, although the Parliamentary burgh embraced all and more than

all the built-on portion south of the river, the municipal burgh comprised only a small part of the Parliamentary burgh on the north side of the river. Now the municipal burgh is much larger in area than the Parliamentary burgh, by the extensions authorised in 1846, 1872, and 1878. Within the boundaries fixed in 1832 for Parliamentary purposes there were five separate and independent jurisdictions or authorities, viz.: The municipal authorities of the burgh of Glasgow, the municipal authorities of the burghs of Calton, Anderston, and Gorbals, created by separate statutes, and the Commissioners of Supply of the County for the portion of the Parliamentary burgh not under burghal jurisdiction. A PostOffice map in the hands of the Clerk to the House, in the hands of the members of the Bye-laws Committee, and in the hands of the deacons, shows (1) the municipal burgh of Glasgow prior to 1846 in yellow body colour; (2) the police burghs of Anderston, Calton, and Gorbals, and a part of the ancient royalty and part of the county, in brown body colour; (3) the present Parliamentary burgh of Glasgow prior to 1846, which included the then municipal burgh of Glasgow and the burghs of Anderston, Calton, and Gorbals, &c., ringed in red; and (4) the present municipal burgh of Glasgow, as extended in 1846, 1872, and 1878, ringed in blue.

"The Home Secretary, Viscount Melbourne, in the Royal Commission issued to the Commissioners to fix these Parliamentary boundaries, gave the following direction, viz. In general, without being controlled by local divisions or jurisdictions, you will assign such boundaries as the circumstances of each burgh may seem