CHAPTER XXIX. GROWTH OF GLASGOW-HARBOUR REVENUE IN 1771 AND 1882-POPULATION IN 1708 AND 1882-RENTAL—AND PARLIAMENTARY AND MUNICIPAL CONSTITUENCY. IN the preceding pages we have endeavoured, as far as possible, to avoid giving statistics except where it was considered absolutely necessary to explain the subject in hand. But, with a view to illustrate the rapid growth of Glasgow, we deem it essential to give the following few statistics showing that growth : The first harbour revenue of Glasgow was for the year 1771, and amounted to £1,034, while for the year 1882 it had increased to £264,549 odds. The population of Glasgow in the year 1708-the year after the union of Scotland with England-was 12,766, while it is estimated that at June, 1882, it had increased to 536,000, and if the inhabitants in the suburbs were added it would amount to no less than 724,000. This surely shows a growth which can only be termed prodigious. In 1855, when the valuation roll was made up for the first time by a statutory public assessor, the rental of the present Glasgow was £1,377,892, while it now stands at the large sum of £3,425,653. In 1856, when the roll of the parliamentary or male electors was made up, also for the first time, by a statutory public assessor, the number of electors was 18,009. At the present time, the roll of the parliamentary constituency contains 63,714 electors. The present municipal burgh is more extensive in area. than the parliamentary burgh, and hence the constituency of the municipal is larger than the parliamentary burgh, as will be seen below. The municipal constituency for 1882 is as follows: APPENDIX. I. TABLE OF SCOTS MONEY. Scots money is the twelfth of the same denomination of sterling money. II. REGULATIONS BY THE PROVOST, BAILIES, ETC., OF GLASGOW, IN FAVOUR OF THE CRAFTSMEN OF CORDINERS, DATED 27TH JUNE, 1460. TO ALL and SUNDRIE to whose knowledge thir present The Provost, Baillies, Council, and Communities of the THAT, the day and date of thir presents, Compeared before us, the Craftsmen of the Cordeners and Barkers, being Cordeners of our said city, and presented to us, sitting in judgment, our Council gathered, their Bill and supplication, of the which the tenor follows in thir words My Lord Provist, Bailies, and worthy Councill of this good town of Glasgow-Unto your discretions, humbly meaning and shows |