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other parts of Scotland. The labourers have no other allowances whatever except the daily wages specified in the table. In the intermediate years not quoted the wages remained stationary at the rates last mentioned; and when any change took place, the period of such change and the degree of it are regularly stated.

Years. Rate per day in winter. Rate per day in summer. Years. Rate per day in winter. Rate per day in summer.
1760 4d 6d. 1799 12d. 15d.
1765 6d. 8d. 1800 14d. 16d.
1770 8d. 10d. 1802 16d. 18d.
1772 8d. 12d. 1811 18d. 22d.
1776 7d. 9d. 1812 20d. 24d.
1780 8d. 10d. 1816 18d. 22d.
1791 8d. 11d. 1817 16d. 20d.
1793 9d. 12d. 1819 15d. 18d.
1798 11d. 14d. 1822 12d. 15d.

In 1812, farm servants boarded in the house received from 14l. to 22l. a year; women servants from 5l. to 8l. At present, (April, 1823,) men receive from 10l. to 14l., and women from 3l. 10s. to 6l.

Masons' wages per day were three shillings in 1812, and are now half-a-crown. All work done by the piece, such as building stone fences, cutting ditches either for fences or drains, making roads, &c. may be