TRADES' HOUSE PENSIONS AND BURSARIES, WITH IN 1877 these pensions were revised, and the Incorporation of Cordiners is now entitled to have on the roll four craftsmen as pensioners, who must be on the pension roll of the Incorporation. The maximum number of male pensioners that can be enrolled by the Trades' House is 70. If vacancies occur in any of the crafts, and they cannot be supplied by such crafts, the most needful are put on the roll from other crafts. If the pensioner has been a deacon-convener, the pension is £50 a year; if a collector of the Trades' House, £40 a year; if a deacon of a craft, £30 a year; and, if a craftsman, £20 a year. The number of widow pensioners from a craft is not limited as in the case of males-the most deserving and necessitous getting the preference, whatever craft they may belong to, but each craft is, as far as may be, fairly represented; the maximum number entitled to admission. being 50-the pension being £15 a year for a deacon's widow, and £10 a year for others. The number of unmarried daughters from a craft is also not limited as in the case of males-the most deserving and necessitous getting the preference the sanie as in the case of widows, whatever craft they may belong to the pension being from £5 to £8 a year, according to circumstances, the maximum number who can be enrolled being 100. The Trades' House paid £2,603 5s. during last year for pensions and precepts. The following are the forms which require to be filled up and lodged with the clerk to the Trades' House by those desiring pensions. In all cases the applicants must be pensioners or precept-holders in their own craft, and their applications must be approved of and recommended by the Master Court of the Incorporation from which the applicants claim a right before being lodged with the clerk of the Trades' House:— At a meeting of the Deacon and Masters of the Incorpor- warned to attend, as was verified by the Officer. The Meeting, under the Resolutions of the Trades' House of Glasgow, dated 25th September, 1845, and the previous Regulations of the House on the subject of Pensioners on its Funds, recommend as in all respects a worthy object for a Pension from the Trades' House, under those Resolutions and Regulations; and do hereby certify that the following is a state of health, family, and circumstances : Age at next Birth-day. State of Health. If Married or a Widower. What is his Employment. What Children, and their Age. State Incorporations on which he is a Pensioner, and amount of Pension from each. If a Pensioner on Hutchesons' Hospital, and amount. Any other source of Income, and amount. Whether he was ever Deacon of the Trade, or a Member of the Trades' House, and date. And the Meeting further certify that the said is a Burgess of the Craft Rank of Glasgow, and a duly enrolled Freeman of the said Incorporation of and was entered on Extracted by as 18 AT GLASGOW, the WIDOWS. day of Eighteen Hundred and At a Meeting of the Deacon and Masters of the Incorporation the whole having been duly warned to of attend, as was verified by the Officer. The Meeting, under the Resolutions of the Trades' House of Glasgow, dated 15th February, 1877, and the previous Regulations of the House on the subject of Pensioners on its Funds, recommend as in all respects a worthy object for a Pension from the Trades' House, under those Resolutions and Regulations; and do hereby certify that the following is a state of her health, family, and circumstances : Age at next Birth-day. State of Health. What is her employment. What Children, and their Age. State Incorporations on which she is a Pensioner, and amount of Pension from each. If a Pensioner on Hutchesons' Hospital, state amount. If any other source of Income, state amount. Whether her Husband was ever Deacon of the Incorporation, or a Member of the Trades' House, and date. And the meeting further certify that her Husband was a Burgess of the Craft Rank of Glasgow, and a duly enrolled Freeman of the At a Meeting of the Deacon and Masters of the Incorporation the whole having been duly warned of to attend, as was verified by the Officer. The meeting, under the Resolutions of the Trades' House of Glasgow, dated 15th February, 1877, and the previous Regulations of the House on the subject of Pensioners on its Funds, recommend as in all respects a worthy object for a Pension from the Trades' House, under those Resolutions and Regulations; and do hereby certify that the following is a state of her health, family, and circumstances: Age at next Birth-day. State of Health. What is her employment? State Incorporations on which she is a Pensioner, and amount of Pension from each. If a Pensioner on Hutchesons' Hospital, state amount. If any other source of Income, state amount. Whether her Father was ever Deacon of the Incorporation, or a Member of the Trades' House, and date. And the meeting further certify that her Father was a Burgess of the Craft Rank of Glasgow, and a duly enrolled Freemen of the the Incorporation of and was entered on Extracted by as 18 BURSARIES IN WHICH THE TRADES' HOUSE OF GLASGOW IS INTERESTED. 1. Howison's Bursary.-John Howison, minister of Cambuslang, by deed of mortification, dated 25th November, 1613, granted the profit of 1,000 merks, to be laid out upon lands within the burgh of Glasgow. The Trades' House received this sum, and until 1817 paid £5 a year as its interest to the bursar, whom they regularly appointed. Since 1820 the Trades' House has paid £9 a year, in consequence of a gift of £20 received from one who was formerly a bursar. 2. Gilchrist's Bursary.-On 25th March, 1700, the Trades' House acknowledged having received from the Trustee of the deceased John Gilchrist, late tailor, and late deacon-convener, 2,500 merks for the maintenance of a student yearly, in the University of Glasgow, under certain conditions, and the Trades' House became bound to pay £5 yearly. There are several other mortifications under the management of the Town Council and others, and of the Trades' House, but, as these may be reorganised under the Educational Endowments Act, it has been deemed expedient not to give them here. CORDINERS' PENSIONERS AND PRECEPT-HOLDERS, WITH FORM OF APPLICATION, &C. The number of pensioners is not a fixed one, nor is the pension or precept a fixed amount-each being paid according to the specialities and necessities of the case; and the Master Court in this exercises the utmost fairness |