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Edinburgh 12th January 1788
I John Taitt Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby certify, that upon carefull examination
of the foregoing several Rates and Duties, I find they amount in whole to Five
Hundred and forty one pounds Ten Shillings Sterling, and that upon this
twelfth day of January Instant, I delivered to Mr George Cranston Collector of the
Cess for said County, or his Depute, at the Cess Office of Edinburgh, an exact
duplicate of the above Account, duly examined and compared with the foregoing
in which I certified that Requisitions of Charge were left with the several Inhabitants
or at their dwelling houses, of the dates annexed, and that they are Charged
with the Rates and Duties set against their several names Conform to Returns
made by themselves.
John Taitt, Surveyor