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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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[Page] 18 (12)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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