Not exceeding 1/2 cwt. 0_s._ 4_d._
„ 1 „ 0 6
„ 1-1/2 „ 0 9
„ 2 „ 1 0
For the like weights, and not exceeding Poplar, Bow-church,
Bishop Bonner’s Farm, Kingsland-turnpike, Highbury-place, (Old)
Pancras-church, Portman-square, Grosvenor-square, Hyde-park-corner,
Buckingham-gate, Westminster Infirmary, Tothill-fields Bridewell,
Strutton-ground, Horseferry, Vauxhall, Walworth-turnpike, and places of
the like distance--
Not exceeding 1/2 cwt. 2_s._ 9_d._
„ 1 „ 3 3
„ 1-1/2 „ 3 9
„ 2 „ 5 0
I cite these regulations to show the distances to which porters were
sent half a century ago, and the charges. These charges, however, were
not always paid, as the persons employing parties often made bargains
with them, and some twenty years ago the legalised charges were reduced
1_d._ in every 3_d._ The street-porters complain that any one may now,
or at all events does now, ply for hire in the city, and get higher
prices than them.
All ticket-porters pay 8_s._ yearly towards the funds of their society,
which is called quarterage. Out of this a few small pensions are
granted to old women, the widows of ticket-porters.
The difference of the functions of the ticket and fellowship-porters
seems to be this--that the ticket-porters carry dry goods, or those
classed by weight or bulk, the fellowship-porters carry measured goods.