' A- <i .-"tn AXt^.S'.C.lb. 9 TioO^ Digitized by tlie Internet Arcliive in 2010 witli funding from National Library of Scotland http://www.archive.org/details/postofficedundee184647dun Page Guild Court, ... 33 -Guiidry Incorporation, 27 Harbour Trustees, . 27 Hawkhill Bowling Club, 51 Highland Society, 51 Indigent Sick Society, 49 Inspector of Factories, 55 Joint-Stock Building Company, 32 Justice of Peace Court, 33 Kinloch Monument, 55 Lochee Directory, 261 Magistrates and Town Council, 25 Maltmen Incorporation, 28 Marine Insurance Company, 40 Masonic Bodies, 51 Merchant Seamen's Fund, 82 Mortifications, 56-57 National Bank of Scotland, 38 National Security Savings Bank, 38 Newspapers, 54 Nine Incorporated Trades, 28 Odd Fellow Lodges, 51 Parochial Board, 55 Police Court, 32 „ Establishment, 32 „ (Harbour), 34 Post Office, . 1-24 Professional Directory (Dundee), 181 Public Seminaries, 52 Roya Lunatic Asylum, 47 Royal Orphan Institution, 48 Sea Insurance Company, 40 Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society, . 40 Scottish Widows' Fund Life Assuranc B Society, 40 Shei'iff Court, 33 Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society, . 49 Shipping List, 8-64 Streets, Lanes, &c,. with Localities, . 69-77 VI Street Porters, 67 Stamps and Taxes, 34 Tay Ferries, 45 Tay and Tyne Shipping Company, 43 Tay Whale-Fishing Company, 44 Three United Trades, . 28 Trinity House, 28 Union Association of Underwriters, 40 Watt Institution, 52 Western Bank of Scotland, 37 Writers' Incorporation, 32 THE POST OFFICE DUNDEE DIRECTOEY FOB @-47. DUNDEE: PRINTED BY M'COSH, PARK, & DEWARS. o :v MMIM^J^ MIl^ CONTENTS. Page Advertisements, 271 Baltic Coffeehousej 53 Bank of Scotland, 38 Britisli Linen Company, 38 Broughty Perry Directory, 247 Burgh or Bailie Court, 33 Cemetery Company, 46 Chamber of Commerce, 32 Circulating Libraries, . 53 City Mission Association, 50 Clergy and Places of Worship, 35-37 Clothing Society, 48 Coaches, Carriers, &c.. 64-67 Commissary Court, 33 Commissioners of Police and their Conimittees, 29 Commissioners in Scotland for taking u/Affidavits for English Courts, 54-55 Consuls for Foreign States, 54 Curling Club, 51 Customs, 34 Diseases of the Chest, 49 Dundee and Aberdeen Traders, 43 Dundee and Arbroath Railway, 45 Dundee Association for the Monthly Diistribution of Religious Tracts, 50 Dundee Auxiliary to the Congregatioilal Union of Ireland, . , 50 IV Dundee Auxiliary to the London Missionary Society, 30 Dundee Auxiliary to the British and Foreign Bible Society, .... 50 Dundee Bank, 37 Dundee, Broughty, and South Ferry Steam Packet, 43 Dundee Directory, 78 Dundee and Dunkirk Traders, 113 53 :j )) • ' 44 Dundee Gas Company, 45 Dundee and Havre Traders, 44 Dundee Hull Shipping Company, 42 Dundee and Kirkaldy Traders, 43 Dundee and Leven Traders, 43 Dundee and Liverpool Traders, 43 Dundee and London Traders, 44 Dundee and Montreal Traders, 44 Dundee New Gas Light Company, 46 Dundee and Newburgh Traders, 44 Dundee and Newtyle Railway, 45 Dundee, Perth, and London Shipping Company 42 Dundee and Perth Steam-Packet Company, 43 Dundee Public Library, 53 Dundee Religious Tract Society, 50 Dundee and Rotterdam Traders, 44 Dundee Royal Infirmary, 46 Dundee and Union Whale-Fishing Company, 44 Dundee Water Company, 46 East of Scotland Life Assurance Company, 39 " Eastern Bank of Scotland, . 38 Exchange Reading Room, 52 Excise, . 34 Eye Institution, . 48 Fairy Whale-Fishing Company, 45 Female Society, . 49 Fire Brigade, ... 31 Fire, Life, Annuity, and Insurance Companies' Agents, 41 Floral and Horticultural Society, 51 Forfarshire and Perthshire Life Insurance Company, 39 DUNDEE DIEECTORY. PAKTICULAli -LISTS. PDST OFFIC13, Postmaster.Cencral—Ecirl of ST GERMINS. Secretary (London).— 'Lieut.~Cq]. WM. LEADER MABiERLY. Secretary (Edinburgh).—TRA'NCIS ABBOTT. Surveyor (Norlh of Scotland).—J OUN WARREN, Dundee. ^^"''^ ^^'^'^ ^'^- ^- WESTERN, Dundee, bui-veyoroSv7-vevor's Clerkstler/cs. I | CHRISTOPHER HOBSON, Dundee. POST OFFICE, DUNDEE, 47 REFORM STREET. B-OBERT Bell, Postmaster. CLERKS. Alexander Smith, William M'Nicoll. William Gibb. Geokge Hekderson. CARRIERS. Henry MoncreifF, David Smith, Thomas Cook. William Sprunt. David Urquharb. David Nobie„ Andrew Donaldson. — DELIVERY OF LETTERS. The Office is open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. from the 6th March to the 5th November, and from 7 30 a.m. to 9 p.m. from the 6th November to the 5th March. The Office is shut from 10 to 11 A.M. for the sorting of the mails. The first delivery commences when the Office opens in the morning; second, about 11 15 a.m. ; third, at 2 p.m. Delivery on Sunday (at the Office only), from 7 and 8 a.m. to 10 A.M. ; from 12 30 to 1 30 p.m. ; and from 7 45 to 9 p.m. DESPATCH OF MAILS. Box Shuts Id up to 9 45 a.m. 10 A.M. Fife Mail to Aberdeen via East Coast. 9 45 A.M. 10 A.M. Forfar and Kirriemuir. 10 a.m. 10 30 a.m. South Mail via Fife. 9 P.M. 9 30 P.M. South Mail via Perth. 9 p.m. 10 P.M. Perth Mail to Aberdeen & Northwar(?s. 1 N.B.—Letters for the North Mail (per evening Mail), having stamps affixed, may be dropped into the Receiving-Bos, 47 Reform Street, without a fee up to 10 p.m. A fee of 6d upon each letter will be taken from the time men- tioned in the second column from the left, until the latest mo- ment consistent with the due despatch of the mails. The closing of the respective Local Posts and Receiving-Houses areas under: a.m. P.M. Broughty Ferry, 9 15 7 30 Jjochee, 11 8 Eilltown, , 8 30 Mllnfield 6 40 King Street, 8 30 Perth Road, 8 30 Scouringburn, 8 30 Loagforgaa, 5 50 POSTAGE STAMPS. Stamps may be had at the General Offi.ce, 47 Reform Street, the Stamp Office, and the several Receiving-Houses. Labels, Id and 2d ; Covers, Ijd and 2^d each. When the value of Stamps on the Letter is less than the amount of Postage to which it is liable, the Letter will be charged double the amount of such difference on delivery. Stamps may be used for Pi-inted Votes, and Proceedings in Parliament, and on Foreign, Colonial, and Ship-Letters, &c., out- wards. If any letter, however, addressed to places beyond sea bear an insufficient number of Stamps, it will be sent to the Dead Letter Office, to be returned in all practical cases to the writer. Stamps are not permitted to be used on Letters arriving in the United Kingdoms from the Colonies or Foreign Countries. These regulations are applicable to Newspapers in thoso cases where they are liable to Postage. If the Stamps affixed to Letters have been mutilated or defaced^ the letter will be liable to the unpaid rate. RATES OF POSTAGE. Not exceeding half an ounce in weight, Id. „ one ounce, „ 2d. „ two ounces, „ 4d. „ three ounces, „ 6d. and bo on. Two Eatt:3 being added for every ounce up to sixteen ounces, beyond vrhich, with the following exceptions, no packet, whether subject to Postage or not, can be received. 1. Parliamentary Petitions and Addresses to her Majesty. 2. Parliamentary Proceedings. 3. Letters and Packets addressed to or received from places beyond sea, 4. Letters and Packets to and from Public Officers and Public Departments. 5. Deeds if sent open, or in cover, open at the sides. They may be tied with a string and sealed, in order to prevent inspection of the contents ; but they must be open at the sides, that it may be seen that they are entitled to the privilege. 6. Bankers' Pa,rcels despatched from. London, and specially de- livered at the General Post Office under certain regula- tions. With these exceptions, all Packets above the weight op SIXTEEN OUNCES will be forwarded to the Dead Letter Office. Inland Letters or Packets put into the unpaid Letter box are charged double the amount of postage to which, had they been pre-paid, they would have been liable. The scale of weight in force for General Post Letters is equally applicable to Letters passing through the Local Penny Posts throughout the Kingdom. They are subject to the same rules and the same charges as General Post Letters, and must be paid in advance, or they will be liable to double the rate to which thej would otherwise be subject. The saiTie regulations apply 1o Letters pre-paid by money, where the full and proper rate of postage has not been paid in advance. REGISTERED LETTERS, Whether containir.g coin or not, can be Registered on payment of a Fee of one shilling in addition to the ordinary rates of Postage on Inland and Colonial, as well as on Ship or Foreign Letters, or Letters passing through France. On those for delivery witliin France, the charges, besides the Registration Fee of one shilling, will be the English rate to France, in addition to double the French rate to the place to Nvhich the Letter is addressed. The eame regulation applies to Registered Letters passing through France. A printed acknowledgment torn out of the Receipt Booli, and stamped with the Office stamp, will be given to any person Registering a Letter. Registered Letters are received throughout the Kingdom until within half an hour of the closiug of the Box for the y^articular Mail or Bag by which Ihey are to be despatched^ Registered Letters bearing a sufficient number of stamps will be considered paid Letters, but the Registration Fee of one shilling must be paid ly money. In the case of Foreign, Colonial, or Ship Letters, it must be clearly understood that Registration cannot extend beyond the port of despatch in the L^nited Kingdoms, though parties, if they wish it, may register such letter as far as the port of despatch.