Advertisement. That by act of Council, dated 25th November 1767, the magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh, approved of the report of their committee, bearing, ... "That they apprehended the ordering of each bye-pipe, within the city and liberties, to have a stop-cock, was intended as a compulsatory for payment of the water-duty, ... And the Council further ordered the City Chamberlain, and the Overseer of the Water, to see the same carried into execution. ...
Edinburgh (Scotland).City Chamberlain.
[Edinburgh,
1775?]
The lower half of the sheet includes a receipt to be completed in MS. once a year's water-duty had been paid by the householder; the British Library copy's receipt is signed in MS. by the City Chamberlain: Hugh Buchan chamb.
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