E326/8/14/75

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A Survey of the Wheel-Carriage Tax in the Burgh of Peebles
from the 5 of Aprile 1791 to the 5 Aprile 1791 By William Brunton Surveyor

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination
I find the above duties amount to the Sum of Seven pound fourteen Shillings and that upon
the third day of November I delivered to John Hyslop Collector of Said duties for the Burgh aforesaid
an exact duplicate of the above which contained my Oath that the preceding inhabitants
were duly served with Requisitions of the dates foresaid desiring them within fourteen days
to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose an Attested list of all
the Servants Horses and Carriages used and employed by them from the fifth of Aprile Ninety One
to the fifth of Aprile Ninety two as well as an account of what Servants Horses and
Carriages they might use and employ any where Else And that the forgoing report was made
up from their Several Attested lists or returns to me from the best information I could procure
or from my own certain knowledge of their respective Establishments
William Brunton

Transcriber's notes

The surveyor has entered the years both as 1791, I have transcribed both as wirtten