The City of Glasgow : its origin, growth and development ; with maps and plates . local antiquarian interest. An important stage in thehistory of the port was reached in 1809, when an Act was obtained to THE PORT AND ITS DEVELOPMENT. 45 define the powers and duties of the City Council as administrators ofthe Common Good and as Trustees. The Council were empowered toconvey to themselves, as Trustees, the dues authorised to be levied, andalso the quay and harbour itself, on payment of the advances whichhad been made out of the Common Good, and of a price, to be fixed byjury, for the Broomielaw Q
The City of Glasgow : its origin, growth and development ; with maps and plates . local antiquarian interest. An important stage in thehistory of the port was reached in 1809, when an Act was obtained to THE PORT AND ITS DEVELOPMENT. 45 define the powers and duties of the City Council as administrators ofthe Common Good and as Trustees. The Council were empowered toconvey to themselves, as Trustees, the dues authorised to be levied, andalso the quay and harbour itself, on payment of the advances whichhad been made out of the Common Good, and of a price, to be fixed byjury, for the Broomielaw Quay, which was then about 400 yards inlength, and the adjoining ground. The total was £19,324. By theAct the Trustees took over the responsibility of maintaining andimproving the harbour and river, were to keep separate accounts, andwere authorised to borrow £30,000. By 1810 they had borrowed£3300, the nucleus of the seven millions since borrowed. When in 1766 James Watt conceived the idea of the separatecondenser, nearly fifty years were to unroll ere the Comet should come. Fig. 5.—The Broomielaw, Glasgow, in 1813. into being. Although in 1802 a steamer plied on the Forth and ClydeCanal, and in 1807 another on the Hudson, 1812 may be taken as thedate of the introduction of steam navigation as a commercial great advance in the development of the steamship had animmediate influence on the evolution of the port; for by 1818 therewere several trading and passenger steamers plying to places on thecoast. Thus a fresh impetus was given to the Town Council asTrustees of the river, and in 1825 they obtained additional powers fordeepening and other works. A feature of special significance in thatAct was that five persons interested in the trade of the Clyde,nominated by the Council, were added to their number as we shall see how that policy was developed, and how wisdomhas been justified of her children. Until 1818 it is recorded that no vessel in the
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