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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
1786 Town of Forres
Aug 1786 Miss Carnaby Mercht. [Merchant] 1 £5.0.0 £0.1.8
James Anderson Mercht. [Merchant] 1 £7.0.0 £0.2.4
John Gunn Mercht. [Merchant] 1 £8.0.0 £0.2.8
Doctor Dougal 1 £8.0.0 £0.2.8
John Gordon Esqr. 1 £12.0.0 £0.8.0
John Hoyes Mercht. [Merchant] 1 £5.0.0 £0.1.8
Bailie Alexander Forsyth 1 £12.0.0 £0.8.0
Bailie Hoyes 1 £8.0.0 £0.2.8
James Fraser Junr [Junior] Mercht. [Merchant] 1 £5.0.0 £0.1.8
Thomas Eddie Mercht. [Merchant] 1 £5.0.0 £0.1.8
Dr [Doctor] Strath 1 £5.0.0 £0.1.8
11 9 2 £1.14.8

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Survey of the Shop Tax Arisen in the Town of Forres
from the 5 day of April 1786 to the 5 day io April 1767 by Patrick McDonald Surveyor

2 Shops at 8/- each is £0.16.0
3 Shops at 2/8 each is £0.8.0
1 Shop at 2/4 each is £0.2.4
5 Shops at 1/8 each is £0.8.4
Total £1.14. 8


I Patrick McDonald Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull
Examination of the foregoing several Rates and Dutys I find the Amount in whole
to be One pound fourteen Shillings & Eight pence and That I delivered upon the
Seventeenth day of Decem. [December] 1786 to Humphrey Grant Collector for the said duty
in the town of Forres aforesaid an Exact Duplicate of the above Account duly
Examined & Compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath that notice
were left with the several Inhabitants or their Dwelling Houses
of the Dutys annexed to their respective names that the were to be charged
with sums hereby certified to be due by them Patrick McDonald
Sworn before me this 11th Day of Jan 1787 Alexander Grant J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

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