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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 |
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1788 | Town of Forres | ||||||||
2 Sep 1788 | Mr William Carnaby | 1 | £5.0.0 | £0.1.8 | |||||
Mr James Anderson | 1 | £7.0.0 | £0.2.4 | ||||||
Dr [Doctor] Dougal | 1 | £8.0.0 | £0.2.8 | ||||||
John Gordon Esquire | 1 | £12.0.0 | £0.8.0 | ||||||
Mr John Hoyes | 1 | £5.0.0 | £0.1.8 | ||||||
Provost Forsyth | 1 | £12.0.0 | £0.8.0 | ||||||
Dr [Doctor] Strath | 1 | £5.0.0 | £0.1.8 | ||||||
7 | £30.0.0 | £24.0.0 | £1.6.0 | ||||||
Proof | |||||||||
2 Shops at 8/ [£0.8.0] each is | £0.16.0 | ||||||||
1 Shop at 2/8 each is | £0.2.8 | ||||||||
1 Shop @ 2/4 [£0.2.4] is | £0.2.4 | ||||||||
3 Shops at 1/8 each is | £0.5.0 | ||||||||
£1.6.0 |
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[page] 67A Survey of the SHOP TAX Arrisen in the Town of Forres
from the 5th April 1788 to the 5th April 1789 By Pat McDonald Surveyor
Proof
£30.0.0 at 4d [£0.0.4] p [per] £ is £0.10.0
£24.0.0 at 8d [£0.0.8] p [per] £ is £0.16.0
£1.6.0
I Patrick McDonald Surveyor afforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon Carefull examination
of the foregoing rates and duties on Shops, I find they Amount in whole to One Pound Six Shillings St [Stirling]
and that I delivered to Thomas Eddie Junior Collector of said duties for the Town of Forres an exact
duplicate of the foregoing Account duly examined and compared, which contained my Oath that
notice were left with the severall Inhabitants that they were to be Charged with the sums hereb[y]
Certified to be due from them.
[Signed] Pat McDonald Surveyor
Sworn before me at Forres 2d Jany [2nd January] 1789 Alexander Grant J.P. [Justice of the Peace]
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