AT PORTERS. T the weft end of the town there are no regulations among porters; chairmen are chiefly employed in carrying goods and going of crrands. See CHAIRMEN, No. 18. Chairmen are very unreasonable in their demands, they will not go a hundred yards with a letter for lefs than fixpence, and if they go a mile they expect a fhilling. But in the city they are under very good regulations. The city porters are divided into brotherhoods, and confift of four forts, viz. Ticket Porters, Fellowship Porters, Tackle Porters, and Companies Porters. 1. Ticket Porters are all freemen, and their business is to land and ship off goods, exported or imported, to all parts of America, &c. alfo to houfe all merchants goods, metals, &c. go of meffages, &c. They give a hundred pounds security for their fidelity and honesty, and fuch as employ them need only take notice of the names ftamped on the ticket that hangs to their girdle, and on complaint made to their Governor at Founders Hall, Lothbury, fatisfaction will be made to fuch as they have injured. 2 Fellowship Porters are employed alfo as ticket porters. Their chief Governor is the Alderman of Billingsgate Ward, to whom complaint is to be made. 3. Tackle Porters, or fuch ticket porters as are furnished with weights, scales, &c. and their business is 'to weigh goods, &c. 4. The Companies Porters land and ship off all goods and merchandise exported and imported to and from all ports near the weft fide of the Sound in the Baltic, Holland, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Turkey, and all towards and beyond the Cape of Good Hope. Rates taken by Porters. Sugar, the hogfhead, 3 d.-for weighing, 4 d. tierce, or barrel, 2 d.-for weighing, 3 d. butt, 6 d.-for weighing, 8 d. Cotton, wool, the bag, 3 d.-the fame for weighing. Ginger, the bag, 1 d.-the fame for weighing. I Melaffes, Melaffes, the hogfhead, 3 d.-for weighing, 4 d. the bundle, 1 d.-the fame for weighing. Danish or Swedish iron, the ton, 1 s.-the fame for weighing. Narva and Riga Hemp, the bundle, 6 d.-the same for weighing. CARMEN AND CARTS. 1. F the empty cart of any carman fhall be set or liberties thereof, than thofe appointed for the standing thereof (unlefs while loading or unloading goods into or from the fame), or if the number of carts, in the places already or hereafter to be appointed, fhall, at any time, be found to exceed the number allowed by the court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen, or by the feffions in London, for the ftanding thereof, the owner of every cart offending fhall, for the first offence, forfeit 5 S. for the fecond 10 s. and for the third and every other offence, 20 s. And the beadles and conftables, or any of the inhabitants of this city, on seeing any carts ftanding in any places in the city or liberties thereof not appointed for their stands, or a greater number of carts at any ftand than what are or fhall be allowed of in that behalf, may take any fuch cart, and the horses thereunto belonging, or any or either of them, to the Greenyard, and fhall there have the fame impounded and kept, until the owner thereof fhall have paid the penalty incurred, and the charges of impounding and detaining every fuch cart or horfes. 2. No driver of any cart fhall hereafter come into Thames-ftrect by St. Magnus Church, eastward, with his his or their empty cart, before fuch time as he or they fhall be hired to come into the fame ftreet, for lading or carrying goods, but that the lanes and paffages hereafter mentioned fhall be used only for fuch empty carts to pass and take their way through into the faid Thamesftreet, and no other, that is to fay, the lane leading down to Tower-dock, Bear-lane, Harp-lane, Botolphlane, Pudding-lane, St. Michael's-lane, Lawrence Poultney-lane, Bush-lane, Trinity-lane, and all other lanes weftward, except the lanes and paffages herein after limited for loaded carts to pass through from the faid Thames-ftreet, under the penalty of 5s. for the first offence, and for the second and every other offence 10 s. 3. The commiffioners of the hackney-coach office are empowered to punish the misbehaviour of carmen. See HACKNEY-COACHES, No. 11. Rates to be paid for Cartage. Note, An addition of one feventh part of the following charges is allowed fince to be taken, over and above the undermentioned rates. Every parcel of dry goods, fuch as indigo, argol, cheese and all other goods (not hazardous) of the like bulk or weight, whether in one or many casks above 19 cwt. not exceeding 25 cwt. to be deemed a load. Ditto above 15, not exceeding 19 cwt. a small load. Ditto, not exceeding 15 cwt. an half load. Each of the parcels of Grocery next hereafter mentioned are to be deemed as follows: For or as a full load. Two hogfheads of fugar, light or heavy. Three tierces of ditto, not exceeding 25 cwt. One butt and one caroteel, currants. Fifty bal kets malaga, or Denta raifins. Thirty frails or pieces of Alexeias. Twenty barrels Belvideras or Leporas. Twenty barrels or eighty tapnets figs. One butt and a fmall cafk Smyrna's. Five barrels of rice. Three bales of annifeed. Six barrels of almonds. For or as a fmall load. One butt currants or Smyrna's. One butt and one role currants. Two quarter barrels, I 2 or fifty jars of raisins of the fun. Three puncheons of prunes. One hogfhead of fugar, or any parcel of grocery not exceeding 15 cwt. to be deemed an half load. Pot or pearl afhes weighing from 19 cwt. to 25 cwt. to be deemed a load. One ditto, not less than 15 cwt. a small load. Fish oil, 10 barrels to be a load. From any of the keys below the bridge to any part of lower Thames-ftrect, up Fish-ftreet hill to the Monument, up Pudding-lane, Botolph-lane, St. Mary's hill, St. Dunstan's hill, or any of the lanes leading from Thames-ftreet, Pudding-lane, Botolph-lane, and that part of upper Thames-ftreet, from the bridge foot to St. Martin's-lane, St. Miles's-lane, and Old Swan. For every load, as abovementioned, 2 s.-For every small or half load, 1 s. 6d. From any of the wharfs between the Tower and London-Bridge, to Dyers-hall, Cold-harbour, Steelyard, Doublehood-warehoufe, Lawrence Poultneylane, Three Cranes, Queenhith, Queen-street hill, Cellege-hill, Dowgatc-hill, that part of Fifh-ftrect hill above the Monument, or any of the lanes as high as both Eaftcheaps, leading from Lower Thames-street to Tower-ftreet, Mark-lane, Lime-ftreet, Billiter-lane, Leadenhall-flreet, Duke's-place, St. Mary Ax, Bifhopgate-ftreet within, Cornhill, Finch-lane, Lombardftreet, Birchin-lane, Abchurch-lane, Clement's-lane, Gracechurch-ftreet, both Eaftchcaps, Philpot-lane, Rood-lane, and places of the like diftance. For a load, 2 s. 6 d.-For a small load, 2 s.—For an half load, 1 s. 6d. From the keys to Broad-street, Threadneedle-street, Lothbury, Bartholomew-lane, London-wall, Colemanftrect, Bafinghall-street, Old-jewry, St. Lawrence-lane, Ironmonger-lane, Milk-ftreet, Aldermanbury, Woodftreet, Cheapfide, Poultry, St. Martin's-le-grand, Newgate-ftreet, Pater-nofter-row, St. Paul's-Church-yard, Doctors-commons, Old-change, Friday-street, Breadftreet, Bow-lane, Watling-street, Bafing-lane, Breadftreet-hill, Trinity-lane, Old-fifh-ftreet, or any part of Thames Thames-ftreet frou Queenhith to Puddle-dock, or places of the like distance within the gates, and also to Bifhopgate without, not exceeding the London Workhoufe, Aldgate High-street within Whitechapel bars, Houndfditch, and the Minories. For a load, 3 s.--For a small load, 2's. 6 d. For an half load, 1 s. 6d. From the keys to all places between the Gates and Bars (the above-mentioned articles otherwise ascertained before excepted.) For a load, 3 s. 6d. For a small load, 2 s. 10 d.— For an half load, 2 s. 6 d.-For York fhire packs, to all places within the Gates, per pack, 2 s. 6d. For ditto, to all places between the Gates and Bars, per pack, 3s. -For Spanish wool, to any place within the Gates, per bag, 4d.-And from all other warehouses to Blackwell-hall, and all Inns within the Gates, per bag, 3 d. For ditto to all places between the Gates and Bars, per bag, 5 d.-N. B. To carry nine bags of Spanish wool in a load, and no more. Several kinds of goods, next herein after mentioned, being either not weighable, hazardous, or cumbersome, are to be carried at the rates next herein after specified, viz. Eaft India goods, weighable, as tea, coffee, &c. to any of the company's warehouses in Fenchurch-street, Lime-street, the Exchange, &c. 2s. 2 d. per ton, and 2 d. per C. the over-weight. All pieces of Arrack, containing about 150 gallons, at 2 s. 2 d. each, or a greater quantity in two or more smaller casks, 2 s. 6 d. Hamburgh, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Scotch and Irish linens in chefts, vats, bales, and packings of various weights and fizes, from 6 d. to 3 s. per cheft, bale, &c. Tobacco to the respective merchants warehouses, per hogfhead, 1 s.-And from all warehouses to the water fide, per hogfhead, 8 d.-Smyrna cotton per bag, facks of goats hair, wool, or of galls, or filk nuts, or fpunges, or colloquintida, or bales of cotton yarn, or chefts of drugs, or pistachia, each 4d.-Cyprus cotton, per bag, d.-Turkey filk, per bale, 6d, bales of carpets, 13. each |