[Scottish cess tax receipt for the Laird of Niddrie.]
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
1746]
A partially printed slip with blank spaces for MS information: Received from [The Laird of Nidrie & James Murray Esq] the sum of [three hundred fourty five pounds, six pennies] Scots money, as his proportion of the [six] months Cess payable by or before the [24th June 29th Septr. & 25th Decembr.] last bypast, at £1.4.6d Scots money upon the 100 L.  of his valued rent monthly within the parish of Yetholme] Collector and clerks fees included, by me.
Cess tax was a property tax which was enacted in Scotland in 1665 and continued to be levied through the eighteenth century.
Dated in manuscript "4th March 1746".
Real property tax
Real property
Scotland Edinburgh.