Adam Smith, Commissioner (part 19)

The last document (for now) in my sample of signed Adam Smith letters is Order #145, which like the previous order (#144) is also dated 30 December 1784 and signed by Basil Cochrane (top signature), Adam Smith (middle), and James Edgar (bottom). This order involves another more-or-less routine personnel matter: “Having received your Letter of the 23d instant, inclosing the Memorial of Mr. Duncan Douglas [,] warranted to be a Landwaiter & Searcher at your Port, praying for the reasons therein set forth, that he may be instructed at Inverness. We acquaint you [with] the Information of Mr. Douglas that on the 16th instant, we directed the Collr. & Comptroller of Aberdeen to put him under the Care of the Landsurveyor and Landwaiter in order to [obtain] his Instruction and Qualification for the Office of a Landwaiter & Searcher at Inverness for which he is warranted and that this departure from the established Rule (Leith & Port Glasgow being the regular Instructing Ports) was owing to the…

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