Stonehaven Burgh: Bundle of papers relating to Dispute of Cess and Stint for the Old Town and New Town of Stonehaven

• Reference:GB 228 AS/Kstn/11/19
• Former Reference:GB 228 Red number: 435 (one item within bundle)
• Dates of Creation:1824 – 1849
• Physical Description:
  1 bundle of c. 60 items

• Scope and Content

  Various copies of letters, meeting minutes, petitions etc concerning the rights of town tradesmen and what they were eligible to pay in taxation (cess and stint), and who they had the right to and not to trade with other burghs and foreign nations.

  Includes 1824 copy of petition of the inhabitants of Stonehaven to the Commissioners for regulation Trade between the Royal Burghs and Burghs of Regality and Barony, 1699; and extacts from Acts of Convetion of Royal burghs in 1716 and 1719, copied c. 1822

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