The contents are as follows:

(i) Tax receipts, 1786-1801 (folio 1);

(ii) Discharges, 1792-1797, by Alexander Fraser, sheriff clerk of Haddington, for various duties (folio 37);

(iii) Poor rate receipts, 1793-1800 (folio 52);

(iv) Insurance receipts, 1788-1800 (folio 63);

(v) Advertisement receipts, 1787-1798 (folio 89);

(vi) Miscellaneous accounts and receipts, 1785-1802, including servants' accounts of incidental expenses (folio 172).