BAILII is celebrating 24 years of free online access to the law! Would you consider making a contribution?
No donation is too small. If every visitor before 31 December gives just £1, it will have a significant impact on BAILII's ability to continue providing free access to the law.
Thank you very much for your support!
 |
[Home] [Databases] [World Law] [Multidatabase Search] [Help] [Feedback] | |
Scottish Court of Session Decisions |
||
|
You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> Scottish Court of Session Decisions >> Smith and Others, Petitioners [1867] ScotLR 4_109 (19 June 1867) URL: http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/1867/04SLR0109.html Cite as: [1867] ScotLR 4_109, [1867] SLR 4_109 |
||
[New search] [Printable PDF version] [Help]
Page: 109↓
Circumstances in which the Court refused to sanction the proposed boundary of a new parish. Petitioners allowed time to amend.
This was a petition at the instance of the Endowment Scheme Committee of the Church of Scotland, and others, for disjunction and erection of Leadhills. It appeared that the parish of Crawford, in which Leadhills is situated, contains about 1500 inhabitants. About 900 of these are miners, and reside at the village of Leadhills. It was proposed to erect Leadhills into a parish; and in order to include in the new parish a sufficient portion of land, belonging to Lord Hopetoun, who is the principal heritor, to give a stipend of $68 at 3 per cent. on the rental, it was proposed to cut off from Crawford parish, and make part of the new parish, a large but thinly populated district to the south of Leadhills, containing a population variously estimated at from 60 to 100 persons.
Shand, for parishioners and others, objected, on
Page: 110↓
the ground that the part of the parish thus proposed to be taken from Crawford and added to Leadhills would be very much inconvenienced by the change, and the people would have a much longer road to travel to church than they had at present. A. R. Clark and Watson for petitioners.
The
The petitioners were time accordingly allowed time for consideration.
Agents for Petitioners— Marshall & Stewart W.S.
Agents for Objectors— Mackenzie & Kermack, W.S.
