London.
Lost Children.
The Gresham committee having humanely provided a means of leading to the discovery of lost or strayed children, the following is a copy of the bill, issued in consequence of their regulation:—
To the Public.
London.
If persons who may have lost a child, or found one, in the streets, will go with a written notice to the Royal Exchange, they will find boards fixed up near the medicine shop, for the purpose of posting up such notices, (free of expense.) By fixing their notice at this place, it is probable the child will be restored to its afflicted parents on the same day it may have been missed. The children, of course, are to be taken care of in the parish where they are found until their homes are discovered.
From the success which has, within a short time, been found to result from the immediate posting up notices of this sort, there can be little doubt, when the knowledge of the above-mentioned boards is general, but that many children will be speedily restored. It is recommended that a bellman be sent round the neighbourhood, as heretofore has been usually done.
Persons on receiving this paper are requested to fix it up in their shop-window, or other conspicuous place.
The managers of Spa-fields chapel improving upon the above hint, caused a board to be placed in front of their chapel for the same purpose, and printed bills which can be very soon filled up, describing the child lost or found, in the following forms:—
| CHILD LOST. | CHILD FOUND. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | Age | Sex | Age |
| Name | Name | ||
| Residence | May be heard of at | ||
| Further particulars | Further particulars | ||
The severe affliction many parents suffer by the loss of young children, should induce parish officers, and others, in populous neighbourhoods, to adopt a plan so well devised to facilitate the restoration of strayed children.
Ticket Porters.
By an Act of common council of the city of London, Heygate, mayor, 1823, the ticket porters are not to exceed five hundred.
A ticket porter, when plying or working, is to wear his ticket so as to be plainly seen, under a penalty of 2s. 6d. for each offence.
No ticket porter is to apply for hire in any place but on the stand, appointed by the acts of common council, or within six yards thereof, under a penalty of 5s.
| FARES OF TICKET-PORTERS. | For every half mile farther. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qr. Mile. | Half Mile. | One Mile. | 11⁄2 Mile. | Two Mile. | ||||||||
| s. | d. | s. | d. | s. | d. | s. | d. | s. | d. | s. | d. | |
| For any Package, Letter, &c. not exceeding 56 lbs. | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Above 56 lbs. and not exceeding 112 lbs. | 0 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Above 112 lbs. and not exceeding 168 lbs. | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| For every parcel above 14 lbs. which they may have tobring back, they are allowed half the above fares. | ||||||||||||
A ticket porter not to take more than one job at a time, penalty 2s. 6d.
Seven, or more, rulers of the society, to constitute a court.
The governor of the society, with the court of rulers, to make regulations, and annex reasonable penalties for the breach thereof, not exceeding 20s. for each offence, or three months’ suspension. They may discharge porters who persist in breach of their orders.
The court of rulers to hear and determine complaints in absence of the governor.
Any porter charging more than his regular fare, finable on conviction to the extent of 20s., by the governor, or the court of rulers.
Persons employing any one within the city, except their own servants or ticket porters, are liable to be prosecuted.