. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical . of October. The policeforce, in 1881, comprised 11 men ; and the salary of thesuperintendent was £150. The number of persons con-victed in 1874 was 546 ; in 1875, 425 ; in 1880, 473. Thewater supply, from 1847 to 1865, was furnished by ajoint stock company from 37 acres of reservoirs at Craig-luscar, 3 miles to the NW ; but, the supply not provingsatisfactory, the Corporation bought up the woiks andconstructed, in 1868, an additional reservoir of 12 acresat the same place. In 1876 th
. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical . of October. The policeforce, in 1881, comprised 11 men ; and the salary of thesuperintendent was £150. The number of persons con-victed in 1874 was 546 ; in 1875, 425 ; in 1880, 473. Thewater supply, from 1847 to 1865, was furnished by ajoint stock company from 37 acres of reservoirs at Craig-luscar, 3 miles to the NW ; but, the supply not provingsatisfactory, the Corporation bought up the woiks andconstructed, in 1868, an additional reservoir of 12 acresat the same place. In 1876 they obtained a new WaterBill, by which they were enabled to procure in 1878 a])lentiful supply from Glensherrup Burn, an affluentof Devon—the cost of the parliamentary bill and ofthe works pertaining to this latter supply being esti-mated at £72,000. Drainage works (1876-77), to conveythe town sewage to the sea at Charlestown, cost about£10,000 ; and the gas-works were constructed in 1829 bya company, with a capital of £22,575. The Corporationrevenue Avas £870 in 1834, and £8100 in 1882, when the432. Seal of Dunfermline. DUNFERMLINE municipal constituency numbered 2460 ; the parliamen-tary, 2330. Valuation (1874) £43,281, (1882) £57, (1801) 5484, (1821) 8041, (1841) 13,323, (1861)13,504, (1871) 14,958, (1881) 17,085, of whom 7500were males, and 9585 females. Houses (1881) 3159inhabited. 111 vacant, 19 building. Dunfermline, the town on the crooked Linn, asalready stated, took its origin from Malcolm CeannmorsTower ; and, down to the era of the Reformation, owedits maintenance chiefly to the Royal Palace and theAbbey. It is mentioned, in connection with ancientstory, in the ballad of Sir Patrick Sjjens. Edward I. ofEngland, while residing in it, received the submissionof many Scottish barons who had held out against himduring his progress through Scotland. On 25 May1624, 220 tenements, or nine-tenths of the entire town,were totally destroyed by fire ; and by the
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