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GREENOCK PUBLIC LIBRARIES ta W REFERENCE DEPARTMENT Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from National Library of Scotland http://www.archive.org/details/postofficegreeno186263uns POST-OFFICE GREENOCK DIRECTORY, FOR 1862-63. ARRANGED IN TWO DIVISIONS, GENERAL AND COMMERCIAL ALSO, AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING COPIOUS MISCELLANEOUS LISTS, FIFTEENTH ANNUAL EDITION. GREENOCK: PRINTED BY JOSEPH BLAIR, 40, CATHCART STREET, For the Letter Carriers op the Post-Oeeice. PBICB TIKIE^IEIEI SHIXiLIlSra-S. PREFACE. In presenting the Public with the Fifteenth volume of this series of the Post-Office Greenock Directory, the Pub- lishers beg to assure their friends and patrons that they haye spared no pains to make it correct in every department, and as complete as volumes of the kind usually are even in the largest cities. The Appendix, the Shipping Lists, and the Statistics gen- erally, will be found very exact, having been authenticated. As a medium for Advertising the Directory continues to be appreciated. The Publishers have only to add that they will use every exertion to sustain the reputation of the work, which has already proved itself to be so useful to the community. Post-Office, ) Greenock, June, 1862. ) NAMES TOO LATE FOR INSERTION IN THEIR. PROPER PLACES. 3 lUf Consult this List when the Name sought for in the'General Directory is not found. ALEXANDER Francis, painter and paper-hanger, 29 Su- gar-house lane BELL John, commission agent, 60 Dalrymple street BLACK James W., bookseller and stationer, Hayelock build- ings, 17 West Blackhall street BEITH James, late flesher, 9 Watt street CAMPBELL Archibald, footman, 1 Eldon street CLARK Robert, coach proprietor, Tontine stables, East Quay lane COCHRANE Thomas, spirit dealer, 31 Market street GEERCKE Augustus, outfitter, 4 William street HAIR Samuel, gasfitter, &c. , 29 Sugarhouse lane IRVINE Matthew, shipmaster, 15 Jamaica street M-DONALD Miss, feuar, 12 Watt street M'EACHRAN Donald, bootmaker, 4 Shaw street M'NEIL Mrs, lodging house keeper, 2 Highland close MUIR Robert, provision merchant, 25 Vennel SCOTT Robert, 29 Nicholson street WATSON Robert, flesher, and coal merchant, 53 Rue-end street and 6 St Andrew street , ,, CONTENTS. Page. Preface. Late Names. Stamp Duties. Calendar. Office Post- Directory, . , , , , , 1 Trades and Professions, . , „ , , . 228 APPENDIX. Adjuster of Imperial Weights and Measures, 21 Banking Houses, . , . , , 42 Building Societies, . , . , 33 Burgh, and Police Court, 35 Caledonian Railway Company, 31 Carriers, . .... 72 Cartsdyke Mechanics' Library, 24 Charity School, 25 Churches, Ministers, and Presbyteries, 45 Clyde Shipping Company's Towing Vessels, 82 Clyde Carrying Company's Lighters, 81 Commissioners of Supply for the Lower "Ward, 38 Commissioners on the Harbour, . 20 Commissary Court, 36 Conveyances, 72 Consuls at Greenock, . , 21 Courts, Customhouse, 39 Engines for Extinguishing Fires, Fishery Office, . , . , . , , 42 Glasgow and Greenock Shipping Company, 82 Greenock Academy, . , , , 65 Greenock of Chamber Commerce, , . , 21 Greenock Coffee Room, . , , , „ 24 Greenock Census Returns, 18 Greenock Cemetery, Wellington Park, and Well Veirk, . 26 Greenock Exchange Buildings and Assembly Room* Greenock Hospital and Infirmary, 23 Greenock Library, Greenock Mechanics' Institution, 24 Greenock Parochial Board, 22' Greenock Prison, , , , , , 22 — .,..,.,....... Page. Greenock Ragged School Association, „ . 65 Greenock Railway Guaranteed Company, . 31 Greenock Shipping List, . „ , . 82 Income . Tax Commissioners, « , . 37 Inland Revenue Office (late Excise), . 41 Inland Revenue Office (Stamps and Taxes), 41 . " Insurance Offices and Agents, . „ . 31 Inverkip and Duncan Street Burying Grounds, . 28 Justice of Peace Court, . , . 38 Lieutenancy . of Refrewshire, . , , . 37 List of Bonded Warehouses in Greenock, . , , ... 40 List of Licensed Boatmen, . , . , 76 List of Licensed Deep Sea Pilots, . 73 List of Porters and their Numbers, . 74 Local Marine Board, . 26 Lower Ward Committee of Renfrewshire Prison Board, , 22 Lloyd's for and Agent Greenock Port-Glasgow, . „ 21 Magistrates and Town Council, . 19 Markets, 22 Marine Board and Shipping Office, 25 Mills on Shaws Water Falls, . , , . 29 . Omnibuses, . 72 Parliamentary and Municipal Boundaries, . 17 Physicians and Surgeons, . 39 Post Office, . 1 . Post Office Saving Banks, . , . 10 Public Offices, 33 Quarter Sessions, "36 Rates of Fares to be exacted by Boatmen, . 76 to exacted by Porters, . Rates of Fares be . 75 Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, .. .. 21 Sailing Vessels, 78 Schools and Teachers, 60 Joint-Stock Company, Shaws Water . , , , 29 Court, . Sheriff . 35 Sheriff Small Debt Court, 35 Societies*- 63 . , Steam Vessels, . 78 of Interment in Cemetery,- Table of Fees &c, . 27 for Pilotage on Table of Rates the Clyde, . 73 Harbour Police, . , Town and . , e o 21 Trade Protection Society, 33 Harbours, . , . Trustees on the , < , .. , 20 Volunteer Rifle and Artillery Corps, 62 '. ' Water Trustees,- . < 20 .-.-_.- « . , Writers, t , , S8 Advertisements, (see end of Appendix), STAMP DUTIES (INLAND BILL) DRAFT OR ORDER, after the 10th October, 1853, for the payment of any sum of money to the bearer, or to order, on demand, Id. And the following instruments shall be deemed and taken to be drafts or orders for the payment of money within the intent and meaning of this Act, and of any Act or Acts relating to the stamp duties oii bills of exchange, drafts or orders, and shall be chargeable accordingly with the stamp duties imposed by this act or any such act or acts,"viz. : All documents or writings usually termed letters of credit, or whereby any person i;o whom any such document or writing is or is intended to be delivered or sent, shall be entitled, or be intended to be entitled to have credit with or in account with, or to draw upon any other person for, or to receive from such other person any sum of money therein men- tioned. EXEMPTIONS.—Ahy Draft or Order drawn by any Banker upon any other Banker, not payable to bearer, or to order, and used solely for the purpose of settling or clearing any account between said banker. Any letter written by a banker to any other banker directing the payment of any sum of money, the same not being payable to bearer or to order, and such letter not being sent or de- livered to the person to whom payment is to be made, or to any per- son on his behalf. INLAND BILL, t>RAET, OR ORDER for the payment of any sum of money, though not made"payable to the bearer, or to order if the same shall be delivered to the payee, or some person on, his or her behalf, the same duty as on a bill of exchange for the like sum, payable to bearer or order. INLAND BILL, DRAFT or ORDER for the payment of any sum of money weekly, monthly, or at any other stated periods, if made payable to the b oarer $ or to order, or it delivered to the payee, or to some person on his or her behalf, where the total amount of the money thereby made payable shall be specified therein, or can be ascertained therefrom, or shall be indefinite, the same duty as on a bill payable to bearer or order on demand. PROMISSORY NOTE for the payment of any sum of money by instalments, or for the payment of several sums of money at differ- ent days or times, so that the whole of the money to be paid shall be definite and certain , the same duty as on a promissory note, pay- able otherwise than to the bearer on demand, for a sum equal to the whole amount of the money to be paid,- STAMP DUTIES. INLAND BILLS AND PROMISSORY NOTES. £ S. D. When sum not exceeding £5, , 1 Above £5, and not above £10, 2 10, — 25, 3 25, — 50, , . 6 50, — 75, 9 75, — 100, 1 100, — 200, 2 .•' 200, — 300, ,; . t 3 300, — 400, 4 400, — 500, 5 500, — 750, 7 6 750, — 1000, 10 1000, — 1500, 15 1500, — 2000, 1 2000, — 3000, 110 3000, — 4000, 2 For every £1000 above £4000, and every fractional part of £1000, — 10 N. B.—The duties on Foreign Bills drawn out of the United Kingdom, are to be denoted by adhesive stamps. The amount of duty on adhesive stamps is impressed on two parts. The Board of Inland Revenue recommend that the cancellation should be one of the parts and the other left legible If a Foreign Bill payable abroad, and as to which the provision " drawn in sets of three or more" apply, shall be drawn in a single bill, the duty will be the same as on an Inland Bill, and if in a set of two, the duty on each will be the same as on an Inland Bill, This is in accordance with the opinion of the Board of Inland Revenue. But the Board have given an opinion that a Foreign Bill drawn abroad and payable in this country in duplicate or tri- plicate only represents one transaction, and is liable to the duty on- one Inland Bill of the same amount—that is, if one of the parts have the full duty, the others may be unstamped. The schedule of the act does not provide for such a Bill being drawn in sets. Bills bearing to be drawn out of the United Kingdom are to be deemed "Foreign Bills so drawn, although they may in reality be drawn in the United Kingdom, 17 and 18 Yict. c. 83 § 4. A per- son in the United Kingdom drawing and issuing a Bill payable out of United Kingdom in a set, must draw the whole set, and a person transferring or negotiating such bill must transfer and deliver, stamped, the whole number of the set. Penalty £100. A person taking such bill must get the whole set stamped,^ or otherwise he oannot recover on it or make it available, ib § 6. This applies only to bills drawn within and payable out of the United Kingdom.
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