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Excerpt from Glasgow: The Water Supply of the City From the Earliest Period of Record, With Notes on Various Developments of the City Till the Close of 1900Trust the establishment and working (1) of the tramways in the city and its neighbourhood, (2) of the electricity works, and (3) of the telephone works, with the capital expenditure of the Corporation upon each of these undertakings, the number and cost of the police force of the city, the sewerage system of the city in 1849, with the subsequent extensions the lighting of the city by gas since 1818, and by electricity and incandescent gas recently, with the number of lamps, the number of men employed, and the cost, the cleansing of the city, with the number of men and horses employed, and the cost, the establishment and development of the city improvement scheme, with the financial position of that trust and its model lodging-houses, the ordinary revenue and expenditure of the Corporation from 1895 to 1900, with the loan debt contracted under parliamentary authority, the fires in the city, and the losses therefrom since 1870, the main drainage schemes of the city, the roads, railways, and canals within the city, the revenue of the Clyde Navigation Trust since 1770 the customs revenue collected at Glasgow since 1796, and the number and tonnage of ships belonging to the city registered there, the number and tonnage of ships which arrived at the harbour of Glasgow since 1828, and the banking establishments established in the city since 1697, with those still existing and their several branches. These appendices illustrate various aspects of the growth of the city, and explain to a considerable extent the necessity for the establishment of the several water companies, the acquisition of their works by the Corporation, and the perfecting of the water supply of the city and adjoining districts by the introduction of water from Loch Katrine.The index of contents will, it is hoped, enable those who desire to refer to special matters dealt with in the volume to find what it contains.The map showing the sources of the Glasgow water supply and the lines of aqueducts has been prepared by Mr. William Gale, one of his father's assistants.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.