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As the county town, Lanark has a fair array of the men of law on the local roll, and society is such that the means of education are excellent. The church is also well represented, as besides that of the parish, there is the quoad sacra charge of St Leonard's. There is a Free Church; one U.P. in Broomgate, another in Hope Street; a Congregationalist body; a Scottish Episcopalian Chapel; a Roman Catholic Church; and at New Lanark an Old Scotch Independent body. Physicians three, surgeons two; Court procurators eight, with one each at Biggar and Lesmahagow, notaries two. Banks-the City of Glasgow, Commercial, and Royal; gas companies two; insurance agents twenty-nine; investment societies three; one co-operative society-100 members; funeral societies six -members, 670, 350, 280, 231, 218, 201, total 1950. Masonic societies two;-clubs for bowling, curling, golfing, and racing. Libraries, one circulating, one subscription in the burgh; at New Lanark, a library of 1479 volumes-museum attached. Savings banks two. Clydesdale Upper Ward Society, of which original constitution, rules, etc., will be found in Appendix Volume of this Work; Upper Ward Agricultural Society, Horticultural Society, Ornithological Society, a fever hospital, Deaf and Dumb Auxiliary Society, Ragged School, Catholic Orphanage, Ladies' Benevolent Society, Benevolent Society, Bible Society, New Lanark Sick Society, Young Men's Christian Association, Religious Tract Society, etc., show that there are few philanthropic schemes which the good folks of the burgh of Lanark do not profess to take interest in. The funds at disposal of the magistrates are of considerable amount; in addition, there is the Jamieson bursary of £21 per annum for a student in University of Edinburgh for four years-the Wilson Free School, for education of not less than 25 boys and 25 girls, with interest of £800 life annuities for the aged, the interest of the Howieson mortification of £600 for the industrious poor, and the Batteisman, Thomson, Hyndford, and Mauldslie monies, left to aid scholars at the Academy, and the "het pint" provision. A. M.

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