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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
1788 Aug' 16 Brot. [Brought] Over £183.0.0 £3.1.0
Nicol Shaw Mercht. [Merchant] in Dumfries 1 £5.0.0 £0.1.8
William Watson Mercht. [Merchant] in Dumfries 1 £5.0.0 £0.1.8
Robert Crosbie in Coy. [Coompany] in Dumfries 1 £10.0.0 £0.6.8
Baillie William Boyd Stationer in Dumfries 1 £6.0.0 £0.2.0
William Johnston Junr. [Junior] in Dumfries 1 £5.0.0 £0.1.8
37 £204.0.0 £10.0.0 £3.14.8

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Survey of the SHOP TAX continued

Proof £214.0.0 at 4 pence pr. [per] is £3.8.0
£10.0.0 at 8 pence pr. [per] is £0.6.8
£3.14.8

I William Currie aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Careful examination of the [foregoing ]
Several Rates and duties I find they Amount in the whole to Three pounds Fourteen shillgs. [Shillings] eight
pence Sterlg. [Sterling] and that upon the 26 day of Dec: 1788 delivered to Mr. Francis Maxwell [Collector]
for the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the foregoing which [contained]
my Oath that notices wer left with the several Inhabitants or at their dweling [houses]
of the date anexed to their Respective names and that the Above is an exact duplicate of
the Returns made by them to me or where that failes by the best Infirmation I could [obtain]
William Currie Surveyor

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