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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carriages 4 wheel carriages Private: one carriage Private: two carriages Private: three + carriages Duty 10%
1791 The Burgh of Selkirk
14 Jul 1791 James Dun Baker in Selkirk 2 2 £14.0.0 £1.8.0

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A Survey of the WHEEL-CARRIAGE TAX in the Burgh of Selkirk
from the 5 of Aprile 1791 to the 5 Aprile 1792 by William Brunton Surveyor

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I find the above
dutys amounts to the Sum of Fifteen pound Eight Shillings and that upon the Nineteenth day of October
I delivered to Peter Taitt Collector of said dutys for the Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate
of the above which containd my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions of
the dates aforesaid desiring them with 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 list or Returns to me from the best information I could procure or from my own certain
knowledge of their Respective Establishments -
William Brunton

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