GREENOCK PUBLIC LIBRARIES 11 REFERENCE DEPARTMENT Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from National Library of Scotland http://www.archive.org/details/postofficegreeno186465uns . PREFACE The Publishers have much pleasure in presenting to I Friends and the Public generally, the Seventeenth EcM of the G-reeitock Post-Office Directory; and they f certain that it will be found as correct and as useful as former occasions. To the Shipowners of the Port, to several Official g€; men, and to the Secretaries of the various Societies, enumerated in the Appendix, the Publishers respectfully turn thanks for the valuable information furnished by t hei There will, of necessity, be a number of occupiers houses whose names have been omitted to be inserted in t. General Directory : over this, however, the Publishers ha no control. They have endeavoured to ascertain the m...;< of the parties removing to the numerous new prop* which have recently been erected, and are now erec and they have been only partially successful. Others, a have removed from their former houses, and are unal obtain accommodation in consequence of the scarcit dwellings. It is to be hoped, however, that this want w soon be supplied, and that all classes of the community shortly be comfortably housed. Post-Office, Greenock, June, 1864. ,...,.... .«.....,.,.,., ......,.... CONTENTS PAGE, Preface. Stamp Duties. Calendar. Post Office Directory, .. , , 1 Trades and Professions, . .. 231 Late Names, . , ( . 271 APPENDIX. Adjuster of Imperial Weights and Measures, . 22 Banking Houses, . 43 Bowling and Greenock Towing Company, . 84 Building Societies, . 34 Burgh, and Police Court, . ....... 37 Caledonian Kailway Company, . 32 Carriers, . 15 Cartsdyke Mechanics' Library, . , . 25 Charity School, , . 26 Churches, Ministers, and Presbyteries, . , . 46 Clyde Carrying Company's Lighters, . 88 Clyde Shipping Company's Towing Vessels, . 84 Commissioners of Supply for the Lower Ward, . 39 Commissioners on the Harbours, . 21 Commissary Court, , . 37 Conveyances, . 74 at Greenock, . 22 Consuls . Courts, . 36 Customhouse, . 40 Engines for Extinguishing Fires, . , . 23 Fishery Office, .... .. 42 Glasgow and Greenock Shipping Company, . 84 Greenock Academy, . , , . , 67 Greenock Chamber of Commerce, . 22 Greenock Coffee Eoom, . 25 Greenock Census Returns, . 19 Greenock Cemetery, Wellington Park and Well Park, . 27 Greenock Exchange Buildings and Assembly Booms, . 26 Greenock Hospital and Infirmary, . 24 24- Greenock Library, .... .. .. .. Greenock Mechanics' Institution, . , . 25 Greenock Parochial Board, . , . , , . 23 Prison, Greenock .... 23 Greenock Ragged. School Association, . „ 67 Greenock Railway Guaranteed Company, . 32 .... CONTENTS. PAOE. Greenock Shipping List, . 85 Income Tax Commissioners, . * . 38 Inland Revenue Office (late Excise,) . .. 42 Inland Revenue Office (Stamps and Taxes), . 42 Insurance Offices and Agents, . ... 32 Inverkip Street and Duncan Street Burying Grounds, . 29 Justice of Peace Court, . 37 Lieutenancy of Renfrewshire, . , . 38 List of Bonded Warehouses in Greenock, . 41 List of Licensed Boatmen, . r 78 List of Licensed Deep Sea Pilots, . 75 List of Porters and their Numbers, . 77 Local Marine Board, . 26 Lower Ward Committee of Renfrewshire Prison Board, . 23 Lloyd's Agent for Greenock and Port-Glasgow, . 22 Magistrates and Town Council, . 20 Markets, 23 Marine Board and Shipping Office, . 26 Mills on Shaws Water Falls, 30 Omnihuses, . 74 Parliamentary and Municipal Boundaries, . 17 Physicians and Surgeons, . 40 Post Office, 1 Post Office Savings Bank, . 11 Puhlic Offices, 34 Quarter Sessions, . 37 Rates of Fare to he exacted "by Boatmen, 79 Rates of Fares to he exacted by Porters, . 77 Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, . 22 Sailing Vessels, . 81 Schools and Teachers, .. .. .. .. .. .. 61 Shaws Water Joint- Stock Company, 30 Sheriff Court, 36 Sheriff Small Deht Court, . 36 Societies, . • . 64 Steam Vessels, . 81 Tahle of Fees of Interment in Cemetery, &c. .28 Tahle of Rates for Pilotage on the Clyde, 75 Town and Harhour Police, 22 Trade Protection Societies, . 34 Trustees on the Harhours, . 21 Volunteer Rifle and Artillery Corps, . 63 Water Trustees, .. 21 Writers, . • • • • • • • • • • • 39 ADVERTISEMENTS—/^ 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 hearer, 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 on bills of exchange, drafts or orders, and shall be chargable accordingly with the stamp duties imposed by this Act or any such Act or Acts, viz. : —All documents or writ- ings usually termed letters of credit, or whereby any person to 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.—Any 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 person on his behalf. INLAND BILL, DRAFT, 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 to 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 bearer, or to order, or if 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. Vlll. STAMP DITTIES. INLAND BILLS AND PBOMISSOEY NOTES. £ 8. 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, 3 300, — 400, 4 400, — 500, 5 500, — 750, 7 6 750, — 1000, 10 1000, — 1500, 15 1500, — 2000, I 2000, — 3000, 1 10 3000, — 4000, 2 For every £1000 above £4000, and every fractional partof£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 Bevenue 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 insets of three or more" apply,' should 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 In- land Bevenue. 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 Vict. 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 stamped, or otherwise he cannot recover on it or make it available, ib. § 6. This applies only to bills drawn within and payable out of the United Kingdom. STAMP DUTIES. IX. FOREIGN BILLS OF EXCHANGE drawn in but payable out of United Kingdom, when drawn single same as Inland Bills. s. d. When in sets of three or more, for every bill of each set not above £25,. 1 Above 25,;md not above £50, 2 50, — 75, 3 75, — 100, 4 •8 100, _ 200, 200, — 300, 1 300, — 400, 1 4 400, — 500, 1 8 500, — 750, 2 6 750, — 1000, 3 4 1000, — 1500, 5 1500, - 2000, 6 8 2000, — 3000, L0 For every £1000, above £4000 ; and every fractional part of £1000, 3 4 When drawn out of and payable within the United Kingdom same as Inland Bills. When drawn out of and payable out of the United Kingdom, but indorsed or negotiated within the United Kingdom, same as on Foreign Bills drawn in but payable out of the United Kingdom.