Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical . 11 lie a burghWhen Edinburgh is gane. * Present Municipal Government. — Musselburgh isgoverned by a provost, 3 bailies, a treasurer, and 7councillors, whose jurisdiction extends equally overFisherrow and other parts of the burgh, but does not in-clude the village of Inveresk. The council are also com-missioners of police, the harbour, and the water magistrates hold small debt courts for sums not ex-ceeding £5, and for minor criminal offences. The policeforce is amalgamated wit
Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical . 11 lie a burghWhen Edinburgh is gane. * Present Municipal Government. — Musselburgh isgoverned by a provost, 3 bailies, a treasurer, and 7councillors, whose jurisdiction extends equally overFisherrow and other parts of the burgh, but does not in-clude the village of Inveresk. The council are also com-missioners of police, the harbour, and the water magistrates hold small debt courts for sums not ex-ceeding £5, and for minor criminal offences. The policeforce is amalgamated with the county 1881 an arrangement was put in force, according towhich the Edinburgh Water Trust supplies the burghwith water, superseding an older system of gasworks on the links, erected in 1832, supplyboth Musselburgh and part of Portobello. Extensive * It may be interesting to note that this rhyme has been ex-plained as a pun, as brmjk or brugh signifies a mussel-bed ; butthe honest men of Musselburgh reject this interpretation as un-satisfactory. MUSSELBURGH MUTHILL. property at one time belonged to the burgh, consistinglargely of feus, but it has been much alienated. About1845 it was found thatthe finances of Mussel-burgh had been soclumsily managed, thatit was forced to becomebankrupt, with a debtof about £19,000. Sincethat time the revenueshave been in the handsof trustees; and thetown council controlsonly some £150 annu-ally ; though several ofits members are, exofficio,members also of theboard of trustees. Theharbour, as already ex-plained, is a serious burden on the finances. The debtnow amounts to £9300. Musselburgh unites withLeith, Portobello, and Newhaven in returning a mem-ber to parliament. The corporation revenue in1882-83 was £2293 ; whilst the municipal and the par-liamentary constituency numbered 1286 and 1044 in1884, when the annual value of real property was£26,633 (£18,296 in 1867). Pop. of parliamentaryburgh (1841)
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