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11
He proposed to employ regular gangs of workmen to
remove the filth, and at the same time to erect pillars
with a notice attached as a warning to those that should
hereafter commit the like nuisances. (“Att de voro
ammade åt dem, som hedanefter låta komma sig till last at
kasta orenlighet på gatorne.”)
In July 1707, David Kinnaird informed the Town
Council that some nights previously a scuffle and a tumult
had taken place between some members of the fire-brigade
(brandvakt) and other people. He reminded the
magistrates of a former resolution that the firemen should be
provided with some sort of weapon (kurtz gevähr) by
which they could be distinguished.1
Likewise for church and schools these Scoto-Swedes
proved their interest by contributing to their support
according to their means, and when in the reign of Charles
XII. the glory of war had to be purchased by voluntary
contributions and forced loans, they were again forward in
assisting their foster-country in times of distress and
difficulty. These loans were called in Swedish by the
very mild name of u förskottar till kronan” (1710 and
1713), “förskottar till Pommerska Arméen” (1716),
u förskottar till flottans utrusting” (1716)—i.e. loan (lit.
advance, Germ. Vorschuss) to the Crown, loan for the
purpose of paying the armies in Pomerania, loan for the
fitting out of a fleet, etc.—but in sober truth they were
nothing else than forced loans. On one of these occasions
David Kinnaird excuses his small contribution with the
fact that he had some moneys in the bank which he
could not well command at present, but that he should
contribute according to his means as soon as these
untoward circumstances were removed. Everybody knew
him to be a well-to-do man, he adds.
1 Berg, i. 115.
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