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Memorial and observations concerning the town of Edinburgh's duty on ale, and the appropriation and management thereof, till candlemas 1753; (as intended to have been laid before a meeting of the Parliamentary overseers in anno 1754): with continuation of the history of th management of said duty from candlemas 1753 to July 1760; Concluding in some Degree to one of the Points now in Debate between the Magistrates and the Heretors and Inhabitants, touching the Supply of the City with Water: and a preface: by Andrew Chalmer writer, and one of the overseers.