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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
The Whole of the Shopes Collected
Westkirk 145 £770.0.0 £93.0.0 £18.0.0 £16.16.8
Cannongate 66 £316.0.0 £91.0.0 £47.0.0 £20.0.0 £11.18.0
South Leith 95 £458.0.0 £211.0.0 £15.0.0 £15.8.4
North Leith 5 £15.0.0 £11.0.0 £20.0.0 £1.17.4
Inveresk 16 £93.0.0 £1.11.0
Dalkeith 32 £162.0.0 £50.0.0 £4.7.4
Out Parishes 7 £36.0.0 £0.12.0
Grand total 366 £1850.0.0 £456.0.0 £80.0.0 £40.0.0 £52.10.8
Proof
£1850.0.0 at 4d [£0.0.4] per Amounts to £30.16.8
£456.0.0 at 8d [£0.0.8] per is £15.4.0
£80.0.0 at 1/- [£0.1.0] per is £4.0.0
£40.0.0 at 1/3 [£0.1.3] per is £2.10.0
£52.10.8

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I John Wood Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon careful Ex-
-amination I find these duties to amount to the sum of fifty two pounds
ten Shillings Eight pence Sterling And that upon this present day being the fifth
of December 1786 I did deliver to George Cranstoun Collector a full
Duplicate of the above Acct [Account] duly examined & compared and in which
I certified that Notices had been left with the Inhabitants intimating
the several Charges to be made agt [against] them
James Wood

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