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5. — For each shooting gallery, show, photographic booth, place of amusement 



or cara\'an, one shilling stallage or more according to space occupied. 

 6. — For each sale by auction or Dutch-auction conducted from auctioneers' 



van or stand, the sum of 2/6 and upwards. 

 7. — For each sale by auction of second-hand furniture by auctioneers being 



ratepayers, the sum of six pence, and for other than second-hand furniture, 



the sum of one shilling and upwards according to space occupied. 

 8. — For each person exhibiting implements, the sum of six pence and upwards 



according to space occupied. 

 9. — For every stall or stand occupied by persons residing within the Parish 



the same amount of Tolls twice a year. 

 10. — For every bushel of potatoes exposed for sale by persons residing within 



the Parish the same amount of Tolls as stipulated, twice a year. 

 II. — For every basket of poultry or fruit, the sum of id. per basket, and the 



same amount of Toll twice a year for all persons residing in the Parish. 



At St. Luke's Fair the tolls are : — a penny for each beast sold, 

 sixpence for each horse sold, fourpence per score for all sheep sold, 

 except rams, which are a penny each. Carts laden with merchandise 

 pay a passage toll of one penny. 



A writer who visited Kirkby Stephen about 1750 says : — " the 

 Market is on Monday and as the stocking manufacture supplies the 

 principal trade, this traffic is the first in the Market, it generally begins 

 about six and is over about eight in the morning." 



The butter market used to be started by ringing one of the church 

 bells at eleven o'clock. Indeed the people are fond of bell ringing, for 

 the curfew is still rung every night at eight o'clock. 



A monthly fair for cattle and sheep was started on Monday, 

 August 4th, 1854, and after the opening of the railway, a fortnightly 

 fair for cattle and sheep was started on the same day of the week ; it 

 was held in the streets and for a time revived somewhat the waning 

 market, but with the opening of the Auction Mart near the station on 

 Monday, the 2nd of August, 1875, it soon became neglected and has 

 long been a thing of the past. The Mart was started as a limited 

 liabiHty company, with a capital of £2000 in 400 £5 shares. A few 

 years afterwards, 1891, a second Auction Mart was started in the town, 

 the sales being held on alternate Fridays throughout the year. Naturally 

 the history of the Marts has been a chequered one, the original one 

 near the station is struggling on with sales on alternate Fridays, from 



