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A Survey of the Rates and Duties Arisen within the Burgh of Aberdeen from the 5th
April 1797 to 5th April 1798 on by Charles Farquharson Surveyor.


Aberdeen 21st Feby. [February] 1798 I Charles Farquharson Surveyor aforesaid do
hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing Rates and
Duties, I find they amount to One Hundred and Forty three pounds
Ster. [Sterling] Likewise the additional duties thereon of ten per Cent Fourteen pounds
Six Shillings, also with another additional duties thereon of ten per cent
Fourteen pounds Six Shillings Ster. And that and that upon the Twenty first day of
Febry. [February] 1798 I delivered to Mr. William Copland Collector of the said
duties for the Burgh aforesaid, an exact duplicate of the above
Account as will appear from his receipt hereunto affixed
duty examined and compared with foregoing which contained
my Oath that requisitions were left with the Several
persons before Named or at their dwelling houses of the dates
annexed to their respective names, requiring them within fourteen
days to give in a list of their Wheel Carriages retained or employed
by them from the 5th April 1796 to the 5th April 1797 And that the
Said Account or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me
and from the best information I could procure of the Wheel Carriages
of those whose lists are deficient and others who neglected or
refused to give in a list there of in terms of the requisitions left
with them as aforesaid.
Charles Farquharson
At Aberdeen 21st Febry [February] 1798
sworn before George More J.P. [Justice of the Peace]