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Contents:

Minutes of the Lerwick Subscription School;

The petition of the Lerwick Temperance Society;

The Pioneers of the temperance movement in Lerwick;

The Total Abstinence Society's soiree 1842;

John Smollet;

Some stray references to Shetland 1796-1798;

Representation by John Bruce, collector of customs at Lerwick;

'The drunken riotous sailors from the whale-vessels';

Sebastopol falls - and after;

The Murray and Caithness packet

Contents: Introductions: The business of an old kirk session, Shetland education in the eighteenth century; Kirk session records of Walls and Sandness [concerning education]; Report by Dr Kemp concerning Shetland education, 1799

Contents:
Memorial and queries for counsel for the principal inhabitants of Lerwick and its neighbourhood, with opinion of counsel thereon, 1829;
Minutes of the Scalloway Road Subscription Committee, 1840-1847;
William Jameson, sheep thief and dempster of court, 1791;
The mussel scaap in Bressay Sound, 1813;
Some notes on Shetlanders in the army, 1798-1806;
The Uyea whale case, 1834;
Remonstrance by Thomas Gifford of Busta to and agreement with the inhabitants and fishers of Northmavine, 1726;
The codling hole, 1841;
Some stray notes on ranselmen, 1831-1842;
Scheme of the probation in the prepared state of the sale, Andrew Ross, esq., against Charles Dick of Frackafield and his creditors, 1744;
The petition of Mrs Janet Sinclair of Brew, Dunrossness

Copied from Shetland News (originally published 1896)