Scottish Court of Session Decisions

This was a petition at the instance of the Endowment Scheme Committee of the Church of Scotland, and others, for disjunction and erection of Leadhills. It appeared that the parish of Crawford, in which Leadhills is situated, contains about 1500 inhabitants. About 900 of these are miners, and reside at the village of Leadhills. It was proposed to erect Leadhills into a parish; and in order to include in the new parish a sufficient portion of land, belonging to Lord Hopetoun, who is the principal heritor, to give a stipend of $68 at 3 per cent. on the rental, it was proposed to cut off from Crawford parish, and make part of the new parish, a large but thinly populated district to the south of Leadhills, containing a population variously estimated at from 60 to 100 persons.

Shand, for parishioners and others, objected, on

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the ground that the part of the parish thus proposed to be taken from Crawford and added to Leadhills would be very much inconvenienced by the change, and the people would have a much longer road to travel to church than they had at present.

A. R. Clark and Watson for petitioners.