APPENDIX.

REGULATIONS

FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCHYARD.

A meeting of Joint Committees of the Magistrates, Heritors, and Kirk-Session of Dumfries, was held on the 5th May 1875, with the view of framing regulations for the future management of St. Michael's Churchyard; this step having been deemed requisite on account of conflicting opinions having been entertained, by the bodies concerned, on the subject. There were present-Provost Smith for the Magistrates (in the chair); Messrs. Symons and Anderson for the Landward Heritors, Mr. Corrie for the Kirk-Session, and the Rev. Mr. Paton, Convener. The minute of the proceedings is as follows:

"The Heritors' Clerk produced excerpts from minutes of Kirk-Session, dated 25th December 1860, and of Town Council, dated 4th January and 1st February 1861, relative to the appointment of John Tait, the present Sexton, from which it appeared that he held the office during pleasure, and subject to such rules and conditions as might be presented to him from time to time, and specially under the condition that for certain stated hours on week-days the Churchyard should be kept open free.

The Clerk also produced an excerpt from Colonel Burns's conveyance to the Education Society, dated 18th June 1858, which imposed upon the Society the burden of keeping the Burns's Mausoleum in repair.

Mr. Mitchell,* Secretary for the Burns's Club, appeared and stated the footing on which the Sexton had charge of Burns's Mausoleum-videlicet, that from the gratuities he received from visitors for showing the Mausoleum he paid the club £2 annually for the cost of keeping it in repair.

After consideration the meeting resolved to recommend the different bodies interested to agree to the following regulations for the future management of the Graveyard, viz. :

1. The Churchyard gate shall be open on week-days from eleven till three o'clock.

* Mr. Donald Mitchell, the late able and accomplished editor and proprietor of the Dumfries Courier, whose lamented death took place at his residence, Douglas Bank, Dumfries, 3d October 1876.

2. The gate shall be kept locked at all other times.

3. The Sexton shall be bound to unlock the gate at any other time during the day free of charge on the request of persons interested in the Graveyard.

4. The Churchyard gate shall be open on Sundays from ten o'clock till sunset.

5. During the hours of Divine Service, the Sexton being engaged in Church, a policeman shall be in attendance to preserve order.

6. The Provost, Minister, and Heritors' Clerk for the time being to have the general supervision of the Churchyard, with power to see that the walks and the ground generally are kept in order. As by the terms of Colonel Burns's conveyance to the Education Society, the Society are bound to maintain in good repair the Mausoleum erected in memory of the Poet, the Burns's Club are recommended to cancel the arrangement by which they receive from the Sexton £2 annually to meet the cost of such repair, to approve of a uniform charge by the Sexton, for opening the gate of the Mausoleum, of threepence for each person, and to forbid the Mausoleum being opened on Sundays—an announcement to this effect to be put up at the entrance to the Mausoleum."

The Churchyard Managers constituted as above met on 14th July, 1876. Present-Provost Smith, Rev. Mr. Paton, and Mr. M'Gowan, when the Provost stated "that certain tradesmen had complained to him that they could not get access to the Churchyard after three o'clock when the gate was locked. The Sexton explained that he was always ready to open the gate after that hour, in terms of the regulations whenever requested."

At page 110 of the text we gave the resolutions come to by the Burns's Club on receipt of the recommendations made by the Magistrates, Heritors, and Kirk-Session regarding the Mausoleum.

ERRATA.

On page 315, for genus read GENIUS; on page 318, for Buie read BRUCE.

Affleck, 35, 53, 198, 209, 322, | Beatty, 313.

Armstrong, 40, 115, 185, 199, Blain, 286.

Campbell, 27,63, 269, 303, 322. Crawford, 179.