THese are to give notice, That the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, in pursuance of the power and authority to them given by his Highness' Council in SCOTLAND for the Government thereof, Have resolved, That the Excise of Beer, Ale, and Aquavitae in the several Shires in SCOTLAND (the burgh's therein included) be let to Farm upon the respective days following, at the Office in LEITH.  
The Shires of 

Berwick  
Roxburgh  
Selkirk  
Pebbles  
Haddington   Upon the 22. Jan. 1656. 57 

Mid-Lothian  
Linlithgow  
Sterling  
Fife & Kinross  
Clackmannon   Upon the 24. Jan. 

Lanerick  
Renfrew  
Dumbarton  
Argile  
Bute  
Aire  
Dumfrieze  
Wigton and 
 Kirkcudbright   Upon the 26. Jan. 

Perth  
Forfar  
Kincardin  
Aberdeen  
Bamff   Upon the 28. Jan. 

Elgin  
Nairn  
Cromerty  
Rosse  
Inverness  
Sutherland  
Caithness  
Orknay and 
 Zethland   Upon the 30. Jan.  
ANd to the end all Persons that desire to treat with the Commissioners touching the farming of all, or any the Counties aforesaid, may make their repair to them at LEITH; It is ordered, That Publication hereof be made in every County with all convenient speed.  
LEITH the 29. December, 1656. E. William Welch, Cl. of the Commiss.