Adam Smith, Commissioner (part 16)

Back to our regularly scheduled programming (so to speak), the next document in my sample of signed Adam Smith letters is Order #141. This order is dated 21 December 1784 and is signed by David Reid (top signature), Adam Smith (middle), and James Edgar (bottom). Here, the commissioners of the Board of Customs respond to a letter from the principal outport officers at Inverness regarding ten bushels of contraband salt: “We have received your Letter of the [*] Instant, acquainting Us that William Walker Master of the Sloop Rathia from Anstruther entered at your Port two thousand and four hundred Bushels [of] Scots Salt — That by the Landwaiter[‘]s Blue Book it appears ten Bushels were discharged more than entered and contained in the Cocket, and submitting whether it ought not to be returned as a Seizure — We direct you to prosecute the said the Bushels of Salt to Condemnation before the Justices of the Peace, and when Condemned you are to sell the same by public Sale duly advertised to…

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