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The following accounts not being now extant in the Town 

 Council books may be of value : 



The Provost who most improved it was C ston, who hath left an 



Account of his management from Michaelmas, 1702, to Micha«lmas, 1708, 

 which is as follows :^ 

 Accompt of Debts paid by Golistoun for the Tovm of Dt-umfries from 

 Michaelmas, 1702, to Michaelmas, 1704- 



Mh. 

 To Arbigland of prinl. and @ rent which was owing to his 



Father, p. Bond 3700 



To J. Irvine, Lady Terraughty, of prinl. and @ rent conform 



to Bond 3300 



To B. Ewart £1900 prinl. and £18 str. of @ rent owing by 



Bond 3174 



To Mrs Reid, relict of B. Reid of bygone, @ rents £36 str. ... 0650 



Mrs R.'s prinl., 2600 merks. 



To Janet Real, daughter of J. R. C, <^f prinl. and @ rents p. 



Bond 3080 



To 41 Firelocks, @ £9 p. peice 05->l 



To Lochaber Axes, Partisans (or Halberts), and Drums ... 01. ")0 



To a part of the Expense of Bridging Lochermoss 0400 



To Sr. David Cunningham in full of several years' salaries 



accepted by him and discharged 0200 



To Mr Wm. Veitch 50 merk of bygone @ rent of the prinl. 



sum of £20 str., which I would have paid him, but he could 



not uplift it without the Presbyrs. consent 0050 



To Dean Johnston the balance of his Treasurer accompts ... 0600 

 To 2 years' rent of Mr Robt. Patoun's house, at £12 str., P. .. 0216 



And this beside the Ordinary Salaries and spendings on the 

 Town's affairs, which in one of these years was only about 

 £10 sterling. 



1. Nota.—l assert that the Town's revenue the said two years 



at my first entry was only £3000. 



2. At Michaelmas, 1704, when Provost Rome succeeded me in 



the office of Provost, the To\vn's debt was only about 3000 

 merks due to B. Ried's children and Mr Vietch as above, 

 and the oldest debt of £600 sterling by Dr Johnston's 

 mortification, which the Town borrowed in 1649, for com- 

 pleating their outreik at the Duke's Levie, for which the 

 Town gave security on the Milnhole Miln (which, as it is 

 known. Provost Crosbie and others have ruined) and which 

 the Church Members should look into. 



3. I procured a Compliment from the Royal Burrows of £200 



Scots to the poor people burnt out by the fire in the Friars' 

 Vennel in May, 1702, and which I brought home and dis 

 tributed amongst them according to their several circum- 

 stances and necessities. 



