Adam Smith, Commissioner (Sep to Dec 1784): Conclusion

By way of background, I have been compiling (and am still in the process of transcribing) tens of dozens of legal orders signed by Adam Smith in his official capacity as a Commissioner of Customs in Scotland. The documents in my sample are from September 1784 until the beginning of 1787 — over 200 Smithian documents thus far in all! — and I hope to expand this forgotten treasure trove to include all of the orders signed by Smith in his official commissioner role. In the meantime, I began blogging about Smith’s tenure as a customs commissioner last month (see here), but because the task of tracking down and transcribing these orders has been so time-consuming and painstakingly arduous, I have now decided to focus on the orders issued during the last four months of 1784 — i.e. from 16 September 1784 (Order #109, the day after the historic Commutation Act of 1784 took effect) until 30 December 1784 (Orders #144 & #145) — 19 orders in all. For further reference, I have compiled all of my…

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