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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1898. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... seems to have been a great deal in the burgh at the time. The instrument used was "a pair of long thick tawse." The number of stripes was in no case to exceed forty, "the tawse to be applied to the breech, and with such effect as to cause a repetition to be greatly dreaded!"--the operator to be one of the constables on duty appointed by the Superintendent, but previous to punishment it was provided that a surgeon should inspect the culprit to ascertain if he was capable of enduring it, and if so, the surgeon was "to attend and see that no amount of punishment is inflicted beyond what the delinquent can bear." Thus the Magistrates mingled mercy with justice! Hitherto the Town Council had no suitable premises for the accommodation of the Clerk and for Council meetings. They still met in the Hotel, while the police establishment was in a OLD COUNCIL CHAMBERS, ADELPHI PLACE. house in the High Street, adjoining Inverey House. But in 1851 Rosefield House, the old residence of Mr William Jameson, the "father" of Portobello, which at the time was partly occupied as a school, was taken on lease for five years at a rent of 35 per annum. In 1853 and 1854, Portobello, like many other places, was again visited by an epidemic of cholera. There were a few fatal cases; among others, one of the Town Council fell a victim to the plague. The unsatisfactory state of the drainage of the town, particularly in the neighbourhood of Pipe Street and Bridge Street, being brought before the Commissioners of Police by the Board of Health, it was replied by the Commissioners that the matter had for a length of time been under their serious consideration, but from the very complicated and unworkable nature of the Police Act with respect to drainage they regretted they had met with such ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150641688
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 186
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150641681
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 340 gr


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