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Date Inhabitants names, residence, and parish Actual # of shops Shops at £5 to £9 Shops at £10 to £14 Shops at £15 to £19 Shops at £20 to £24 Shops at £25 to under £30 Shops at £30 and upwards Duty
18.Dec.1787 Alexander Loggie 1 5 £0.1.8
18 Dec 1787 Alexander Loggie 1 £5.0.0 £0.1.8
19 Dec 1787 Magnus Lindsay 1 £9.0.0 £0.3.0
John Reid 1 £6.0.0 £0.2.0
20 Dec 1787 David Erskine 1 £9.0.0 £0.3.0
Total 4 £29.0.0 £0.9.8

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A survey of SHOP TAX in the Town of Kirkwall
from the 5 of April 1787 to the 5 of April 1788, by Alexander Fraser Surveyor

I Alexander Fraser Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that the amount the
[--] Survey is Nine Shillings & eight pence and make oath that upon the Twenty
[--] day of January One thousand seven hundred & eighty eight I delivered to Alexander Loutit
[--] in Kirkwall, Collector of Cess and said duties for the the Town of Kirkwall an
exact duplicate hereof carefully examined & compared with the foregoing
Alexander Fraser Surveyor
At Kirkwall 20th Jany 1788
Sworn before John Wier J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

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