| Description | Receipts for funds paid out from the Rogue Money for various goods and services in the County of Aberdeen
1. Receipt from William Gray, jailor £8.2.1 10 October 1776
- received from Mr John Durno, collector of the cess for the county of Aberdeen £8.2.1 and ½
- for a prisoner in the Tolbooth
- signed by William Gray
2. Receipt from the Sheriff Clerk's Department £19.5.0 8th October 1776
- received from John Durno, Advocate in Aberdeen, £15.1.0, due to the Sheriff Clerk of Aberdeen for criminal prosecutions
- £0.3.3 given to the clerk of the meeting at Michaelmas
- £1.1.0 to the Depute Clerk for his trouble in County matters
- signed by William Craig
3. Receipt from David Morice £ 3.15.6 15th October 1776
- from John Durno, collector of the cess in Aberdeen,£3.15.6as the balance of an account due to him as Procurator Fiscal of the Sheriff Court of Aberdeen for debursements and trouble in criminal prosecution from Michaelmas 1775-Michaelmas 1776
- Also £10.0.0 for the current year
- signed by D. Morice
4. Receipt from J. Chalmers & Co. £1.2.0 3rd December 1776
- from John Durno collector of the cess in Aberdeen, £1.2.0 for the Duty of County Advertisements
- breaks down the dates and payments due for each advertisement
- signed J. Chalmers & Co.
5. Receipt from John Durno £3.3.0 9th October 1776
- from John Durno, Collector of the cess in Aberdeen, £.3.3.0 for salary for the current year as Justice of the Peace clerk
- signed by John Durno
6. Receipt from James Watson £3.3.0 9th October 1776
- received from John Durno, collector of the Land Tax of the County of Aberdeen £3.3.0 for his salary for the current year
- signed by James Watson
7. Receipt from Alexander Chrystall £0.5.0 8th October 1776
- received from John Durno, Advocate of Aberdeen, Collector of the Cess in the County of Aberdeen 5s
- states that the money was appointed to be given to him as ? by the freeholders of the County of Aberdeen as bailman
- signed by Alexander Chrystall
8. Receipt from Hugh Ross and David Turreffs on behalf of the Town Sergeants of Aberdeen, £0.5.0 8th October 1776
- received from John Durno, collector of the cess for the County of Aberdeen, £0.5.0 for the Town Sergeants of Aberdeen
- signed by Hugh Ross and David Turreffs
9. Receipt from John Serogs £0.7.6 8th October 1776
- received from John Durno
- signed by John Serogs
10. Receipt from Alexander Linnie £0.5.0 8th October 1776
- from John Durno £0.5.0 to the Keeper of the Town House in Aberdeen
- signed by Alexander Linnie
11. Receipt from Alexander Logie, John Serogs, and William Forbes - The Sheriff Officers £0.5.0 8th October 1776
- received from John Durno £0.5.0 appointed to be paid to the Sheriff Officers by the freeholders of the County of Aberdeen
- signed by Alexander Logie, John Serogs, and William Forbes
12. Order and receipt for George Shaw, Constable, to carry James Gordon to prison 13th March 1777
- broken down into men needed, keeping the prisoner, horses, expenses totalling £1.11.6
- attested and signed by Charles Robertson and George Shaw
- the reverse of the order has much on it: George Shaw has signed that he received the amount on the same day from John Durno; the order is signed by Erroll, Alexander Fraser, ?, Robert Stevens
13. Account to be discharged to Isaac Grant, Clerk to the Signet, £11.0.11 ½, 30th January 1777
- (see Scan in PC folder)
14. Order signed by John Gordon of Craig to pay seven shillings to Ann Peters, prisoner in the Tolbooth for child murder, to William Gray, Keeper of the Tolbooth, for her subsistence
- written at Aberdeen 20th June 1777 in presence of John Gordon of Craig, Alexander Innes of Breda, and Arthur Dingwall Fordyce of Culsh, freeholders of the County of Aberdeen
- Ann Peters was supposed to be banished but had been kept in the Tolbooth as there had been no opportunity to transport her
- she is now in a bad state of health and has no other support than the three half pennies a day from the Rogue Money of the County
- so seven shillings was ordained to be paid to William Gray, Keeper of the Tolbooth, over and above her ordinary allowance
- signed by John Gordon, Arthur Dingwall Fordyce, and Alexander Innes
- the reverse of the order has a receipt for the £0.7.6 signed by William Gray, received from John Durno, dated 20 June 1777
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