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Date Inhabitants names, residence, and parish Actual # of shops Shops at £5 to £10 Shops at £10 to £15 Shops at £15 to £20 Shops at £20 to £25 Shops at £25 and up Duty
County of Edinburgh Parishes Collected
St Cuthberts 144 £762.0.0 £73.0.0 £33.0.0 £18.17.7½
Canongate 74 £344.0.0 £102.0.0 £47.0.0 £20.0.0 £14.4.7½
South Leith 88 £403.0.0 £223.0.0 £15.0.0 £16.16.9
North Leith 4 £15.0.0 £11.0.0 £0.13.10½
Inveresk 19 £109.0.0 £2.0.10½
Dalkeith 33 £168.0.0 £50.0.0 £5.0.6
Outparishes 11 £57.0.0 £1.1.4½
Amount of Duties 373 £1858.0.0 £461.0.0 £95.0.0 £20.0.0 £58.15.7½

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County of Edin. [Edinburgh]

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£1858.0.0 at 6p [pence] per pound for three quarters is £34.16.9
£461.0.0 at £0.1.0 per pound for three quarters £17.5.9
£95.0.0 at £0.1.6 per pound for three quarters £5.6.10½
£20.0.0 at £0.1.9 per pound for three quarters £1.6.3
Grand total £58.15.7½

I John Wood Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull Examination
of the foregoing severall Rates & Duties I find they amount in
whole to the Sum of fifty eight pounds fifteen Shillings & seven pence half
penny And that upon this present fifteenth day of Nov. seventeen hundred & eighty
five years I did deliver to George Cranston Esqr Collector of the said
Duties for this County an exact Duplicate of the above Acct [Account] duly
examined & compared with the foregoing _________John Wood

[Left Margin] Shop Tax Edinburgh County Ending 5th April 1786

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