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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carriages 4 wheel carriages Duty
Burgh of Dumfries
John Harley Doctor in Dumfries 1 1 £5.5.0
Thomas Clint Vintner in Dumfries 3 3 £15.15.0
Dr [Doctor] Alexander Coupland Dumfries 1 1 £2.12.6
Capt. [Captain] John Hamilton Dumfries 1 1 £5.5.0
Commissary Thomas Goldie Dumfries 1 1 £2.12.6
John McVity Vintner Dumfries 3 3 £15.15.0
10 2 8 £47.5.0
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2 Chaises @ £2.12.6 each is £5.5.0
8 Chaises @ £5.5.0 each is £42.0.0
Total £47.5.0

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A survey of the Wheel Carriage Tax in the Burgh of Dumfries. From the 5th of July 1785 to the 5 of April 1786. By William Brunton.


I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby
Certify that upon careful Examination of the foregoing
several Rates and Duties I find they amount to £47.5.0
and that upon the 18th of March I sent by post to Fredrick Maxwell Collr. [Collector]
of the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of
the above Acct. [Account] duly examined and Compared with the foregoing
And I do make Oath that the above is a just List returned
by the several inhabitants when requisitions were made of
the dates aforesaid. William Brunton

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