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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carriages 4 wheel carriages Duty
12 Dec 1785 Sir Alexander Douglas 1 1 £5.5.0
Major William Butler 1 1 £5.5.0
Capt. [Captain] David Laird 1 1 £5.5.0
10 Jan 1786 Mrs Constable 1 1 £5.5.0
28th. William Gordon 3 3 £15.15.0
4 Jan 1786 Alexander Millar 1 1 £5.5.0
Total 8 8 £42.0.0

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Survey of the Rates and Duties on two and four Wheeled Carriages arisen in the Burgh of Dundee for three Quarters of a year commencing the 5th July 1784 and ending the 5th April 1785. by William Greig Survyr. [Surveyor]

8 Carriages of four Wheels each for three quarters of a year at £5.5.0 is £42.0.0

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the
foregoing Duties I find they amount in whole to Forty two pounds Sterling and that upon
the -- day of -- 1786 I delivered Mr James Dick Collector of the Cess and of the
said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account as well
Appear from --- I duly examined and Compared with
the foregoing which contained my Oath that nottices were left with the Several persons be
forenamed or at their dwelling Houses of the dates annexed to their respective names
requiring them within fourteen days of the date thereof to give in a list of their Carriages
retained or employed by them from the fifth day of July 1784 to the fifth day of April
1785 and that the said Account or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me and
from the best information I could procure of the Chaises of those who neglected or refused
to return a list of their Carriages in terms of the Nottices left with them as aforesaid.

William Greig Surveyor

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