The Trades' House, by minute of 30th August, 1841, approved of the above apportionment of the stock, and ordered that the accounts of the rents of the buildings in Glassford Street should in future be kept separate from the account of the funds of the House, and engrossed and preserved in a separate ledger or account book. By minute of the Trades' House of 26th January, 1843, it is provided that the buildings should thereafter be under the management of a committee, to consist of the convener, collector, late convener, and late collector, and fourteen members of the House, one to be elected by each of the fourteen Incorporations, at a general meeting, and to be returned along with the return of members to the House. By minute of the Trades' House of 8th September, 1843, it is provided that the names of all the conveners should be painted on canvas, agreeably to Mr. Hamilton's plan, and put up in the large hall. By minute of the Trades' House of 2nd October, 1855, it is provided that each incorporation which should hold general meetings of the trade, or meetings of their Master Court, or of any committee whatever, of either the trade or Master Court, in any of the halls or rooms of the buildings in Glassford Street, exceeding seven in number, during any one year, shall pay 2s. 6d. for each meeting exceeding that number, in order to pay for the gas and coal consumed, and the other costs incurred by that excess of meetings. By subsequent minutes the committee on the buildings revised and enacted the following scale of charges for the halls : For preaching on Sunday, For meetings for religious and charitable purposes, £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. For every additional hour, or part of an hour, For similar meetings during the evening, o 4 3 3 For soirees, 3 3 For dinner parties, 4 4 For balls and concerts, 3 3 For public sales of paintings, crystal, new furni ture, or other articles not likely to injure the halls, 3 3 Gas for each hour, O 2 0 40 50 5 5 0 O IO O O IO O 15 O 0 15 0 15/, 10/, 8/ 20/, 15/, 10/ 51 I Meetings of any incorporation, or master court, or committee thereof, exceeding seven during the year, two shillings and sixpence for each meeting. The above rates include all charges for placing and removing seats, cleaning the halls, and the officer's trouble; but do not include tradesmen's charges for fitting up platforms, tables, &c. When meetings are prolonged after twelve o'clock midnight, the officer shall be paid 2s. for every hour, or part of an hour, for attending after that time. CHAPTER XXI I. DEACON'S BOX-INVENTORY OF CONTENTS-CORDINERS' BELLS AND ALBUM OF DEACONS. IN early times there were no banks, and the funds and documents of the Incorporation were kept in a large charter chest called the "Deacon's Box." This box had for greater security two locks, the keys of which were, as they still are, kept by two separate persons-these persons being the two goudies. The deacon appoints the deacon's goudie and the Incorporation the Trades' goudie. The deacon had simply the honour of being custodier of the box, and it necessarily followed that the funds were very secure, as the deacon and the two key keepers had always to be present when the box was opened. Banking facilities and safes have long since rendered the box unnecessary except for holding relics of bygone days. The seals of cause and all the title-deeds and security writs of the Incorporation are in the possession of Mr. R. P. Lamond, writer, the clerk to the Incorporation. The following is an inventory of the contents of the Deacon's Box, viz. : 66 INCORPORATION OF CORDINERS. : "Inventory of Contents of Deacon's Box,' as carefully looked over by Deacon Paterson and Goudies Brown and Gilchrist, and Lochore, tertius, deacon. -13th December, 1869. "Ross' Bond to the Cordiners, 1686. Particulars and Agreements in reference to Blackfaulds. "Articles of Sasine, marked Nos. 1 to 18 on right hand corner, such number having no reference to dates or indorsements. Acts of Council, marked Nos. 1 to 7 on right hand corner, such number having no reference to dates or indorsements. Agreements between the Corporation of Cordiners and the Shoemakers of Gorbals. Receipts and Acknowledgments previous to 1678. "Professor Davidson's Award in Submission between the Incorporation and James M'Farlane, 26th January, 1832. "Receipts, Bonds, and Bills, 1678 to 1810. "Extract Minutes of Trades' House. "Accounts connected with Stockwell property-processes at law, and documents in reference thereto. 66 'Discharges and Decreets 1707 to 1806. "Receipts, Bonds, and sundry law papers, 1603 to 1754. "Bond-the Incorporation of Cordiners to the Trades' House, 1823. "Form of oath. "Collector's discharged accounts. "Old indentures. "Discharges and acknowledgments. "Decreet-1st 4 trades of the convenery against the other 10 trades, 1777. "Memorial from the tailors as to mortcloth. "Various ancient papers and two old bank books. "Confession of Faith, signed by a number of adherents, on parchment. "Old coins, &c. "Incorporation seal. (NOTE.-This is an old die for printing.) "Incorporation stamp hammer. "Made this thirteenth day of December, Eighteen hundred and sixty-nine years, and reported to the Master Court of the Incorporation by (Signed) "MATT. PATERSON, Deacon. No. I The Incorporation owns three hand bells. is inscribed, "The gift of Deacon John Jenkins to the Incorporation of Cordiners in Glasgow, 1788." No. 2 is inscribed, "Incorporation of Cordiners, 1794." No. 3 is inscribed, "Given by Col. Charles Walker, of the 1st Regt., Lanarkshire Local Militia, to Mr. John Craig (for the third time), present Deacon of the Incorporation of Cordiners in Glasgow, for the use and behoof of the Trade, and in token of respect to the Deacon and regard to the Craft.-Glasgow, 2nd August, 1815." The deacons' album is inscribed, “Album—the cartes de visite of the Deacons of the Incorporation of Cordiners, Glasgow,-presented to the Incorporation by Deacon Matthew Paterson, 1870." The album contains photographs of nearly all the gentlemen who have filled the honourable office of Deacon long before and since that date. |