Second Shetland Truck System Report Part 24
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As to your question why the scattholds remain undivided, the general backwardness of improvement, and want of agricultural skill and capital, are the immediate causes. The present tenantry are so ignorant of the means of turning these commons to any proper account, that the fee-simple of most of them would, under the present management, hardly pay a common land-measurer for surveying them, far less could they bear any litigation. There are, however, many considerable scattholds at present the exclusive property of one or a few persons. Improved management has begun, and will probably take root, first in such situations, and afterwards, when its advantages are seen, and a sufficient number of people trained to practise it has arisen, it will spread over those lands where the difficulty and expense of divisions have to be previously incurred. Your alternative of levying a rent of so much per head of beasts pasturing, would not answer, because, as I have already endeavoured to explain, the tenants, in paying a rent per merk, pay for their scattholds as well as for their other ]and.
Your other suggestion, however, numerically limiting the stock according to the rent, or, which is the same thing, according to the moths, would be highly beneficial both to tenants and landlords. If you ask, Why then is it not carried into effect? I can only answer that we have not long turned our attention the way of agricultural improvement, and have only begun to discover that what is difficult is not always impossible.
V. -- EXCERPT FROM REPORT OF MR. PETERKIN, GENERAL INSPECTOR OF BOARD SUPERVISION OF THE POOR IN SCOTLAND.
'I do not pretend to be able to offer any suggestions to remedy such a state of matters, but too rely state the facts as they have come under my observation. I have, however, no doubt that the poors' rates in Shetland are, to a great extent, but the natural results of such parochial arrangements as I have referred to.' VI.--NOTES OF PRICES PAID BY JAMES METHUEN, LEITH, FOR (CURED) SALT FISH, FREE ON BOARD AT LERWICK, FROM 1853 TO 1871. YearLing CodTuskSaith 185320, 10s.1820. 10s.10. 10s. 1854-5................ 1856....15....11, 10s. to 12 185721 to 2218 to 1719, 5s.12, 10s. 185821, 10s.16, 10s.....12 185920 to 2215, 10s.....10 to 11 186019 to 2117. 15s2013 186118 to 17, 10s.17, 10s.1812 to 13 186217 to 1815 to 16178, 10s. 186318 to 20, 10s.18209 186418 to 2117 to 1921, 5s.12 186523 to 2421 to 222315 186623 to 25, 10s.19 to 232413, 10s. 186717 to 1816177 186818 to 1916........ 186920 to 20, 10s.1718, 10s.11 187021, 10s. to 221820.... 187122, 10s. to 2420....13, 10s. Priced per ton VII.--ABSTRACTS OF SETTLEMENTS PRODUCED BY MR. GARRIOCK. 1. ABSTRACT of SETTLEMENT with FAROE FISHERMEN by GARRIOCK & CO. VesselEarningPaid in Lines, Clothes, CashHooks Meal, etc., and Stores for Self and used on Family Board 'Mizpah' 1870.585 2 1374 13 681 7 11129 0 8 'Mizpah' 1871.328 19 11198 9 763 3 467 7 0 'Sylvia' 1870.427 19 2239 17 071 7 916 4 5 2. ABSTRACT OF SETTLEMENT with CREWS of FISHERMEN at DALE and WALLS -- Season 1871. Name of CrewGross EarningLines, Nets, Salt, Meal, and GoodsAmount paid in Cash <6-oared boats=""> James t.w.a.tt and crew66 8 616 4 450 4 2 John Jeromson and crew88 16 111/218 4 470 12 71/2 Wm. Jameson and crew74 11 1136 12 1137 19 0 Fraser Henry and crew100 0 41/220 1 61/279 18 10 Thomas Laurenson and crew100 2 727 14 672 8 1 Jacob Christie and crew96 6 615 2 71/281 3 101/2 36 men Total526 6 10134 0 3392 6 7 <4-oared boats=""> Scott Williamson and crew21 2 11/29 8 91/211 13 4 Chas. Williamson and crew33 2 11/219 16 81/213 5 6 William Smith and crew21 17 710 2 31/211 15 31/2 Jas. Tait and crew34 3 41/27 19 21/226 4 2 Geo. Georgeson and crew16 0 7....16 0 7 Thomas Moffat and crew18 15 41/24 14 81/214 0 8 Magnus Thomson and crew* Thos. Thomson and crew* Mat. Thomson and crew*158 11 042 18 9 115 12 3 34 men Total829 19 1229 0 81/2600 18 41/2 * 4 boats with 3 men each = 12 men AVERAGE. EarningGoods, etc.Cash 36 men in six-oared boats, each14 12 53 14 510 17 11 34 men in four-oared boats, each8 18 72 15 103/46 2 81/4 Minutes of Evidence taken before the Commission on the Truck System (Shetland) Lerwick: Monday, January 1, 1872. Mr Guthrie, Commissioner. I may mention-although perhaps in this country it is less necessary-that the Act of Parliament gives me power, when any person examined as a witness makes a full and true disclosure touching all matters with respect to which he is examined, to give him a certificate stating that he has made such a full and true disclosure; and that certificate has the effect of protecting him against any civil or criminal procedure which might be taken against him in consequence of anything that he speaks to. Further, I have to express a hope that no person who is interested in the system that is said to prevail here will in any way attempt to interfere with this inquiry by intimidating any witness who is to be called before me, or exercising any undue or improper influence upon him. If any instance of such intimidation or improper influence takes place, I hope the party on whom it is attempted to be exercised will at once make the circ.u.mstance known to me, whether that intimidation is exercised by a threat of dismissal from employment or a refusal of work, or in whatever other way it may be done. All these things would be a serious violation of the law, and would be visited with severe punishment. I shall be ready to receive any information that any person may wish to give on the subject of the inquiry; and if any one wishes to give evidence or to suggest any point for inquiry, I have to ask that they will give that information privately, as the inquiry itself, so far as the taking down of evidence is concerned, must, by the terms of the Act, be held in public. Lerwick, January 1, 1872. CATHERINE WINWICK, examined 1. You live in Lerwick?-Yes. 2. You are in the habit of knitting for Mr. Linklater?-Yes. 3. For any one else?-No. 4. Do you supply your own wool?-No. 5. Where do you get it?-I knit Mr. Linklater's own worsted. 6. Do you get a supply of it at his shop?-Yes. [Page 2] 7. Do you pay for it when you get it?-No; he pays me for the knitting. 8. Are you paid in money?-Some in money and some in goods. 9. What is your system of dealing? When you go with anything you have knitted to Mr. Linklater's shop, do you put a price upon it?-No; he gives what he thinks right. 10. He puts the price upon it?-Yes. 11. Does he pay you that price usually in money?-Part in money and part in goods. He does not pay all in money. 12. Do you keep a pa.s.s-book with him?-No. 13. Do you get all the money you want?-I always get what money I ask for; but I never ask for all in money. I have asked for a few s.h.i.+llings in money, and I have always got it. 14. Why did you not ask for the whole in money?-Because he was not in the habit of giving all money for his knitting. 15. Do you mean that you knew if you had asked for it you would not have got it?-I don't think I would have got it all in money; I never asked him for it all, but I always got what I asked for. If I asked him for a few s.h.i.+llings of money, he always gave it to me. 16. Is a settlement always made when you bring your work back?-Sometimes it is, and sometimes not perhaps sometimes I have something in his hands to get, and perhaps sometimes I am due him a little. 17. Due him for what?-For anything. Perhaps he might give me something sometimes when I did not have it to get, if I asked him for it. 18. Did you ever wish to buy your goods at any other place?-No; I could not buy my goods at any other place. 19. Were you always content with what you got?-Yes; I was always content. 20. Then if you wanted money, it would be for some other purpose, such as paying rent?-Yes.
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