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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%
The Parishes Collected
Oldhamstocks 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Innerwick 2 2 £16.0.0 £1.12.0
Spott 2 2 £16.0.0 £1.12.0
Dunbar 2 2 £16.0.0 £1.12.0
Stenton 3 1 1 1 £20.10.0 £2.1.0
Whittinghame 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Preston 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Whitekirk 6 1 3 2 £47.10.0 £4.15.0
North Berwick 3 1 2 £19.10.0 £1.19.0
Dirleton 4 1 2 1 £28.10.0 £2.17.0
Aberlady 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Athelstaneford 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Haddington 7 7 £56.0.0 £5.12.0
Garvald 3 3 £24.0.0 £2.8.0
Gifford 6 2 3 1 £40.0.0 £4.0.0
Bolton 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Gladesmuir 3 1 2 £19.10.0 £1.19.0
Salton 3 1 2 £19.10.0 £1.19.0
Humbie 4 1 2 1 £25.10.0 £2.11.0
Pencaitland 5 2 3 £31.0.0 £3.2.0
Ormiston 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Tranent 3 1 2 £19.10.0 £1.19.0
Prestonpans 4 1 2 1 £32.0.0 £3.4.0
67 12 3 46 4 2 £487.0.0 £48.14.0
Proof 12 Carriages at £3.10.0 is £42.0.0
Proof 3 Carraiges at £7.0.0 is £21.0.0
Proof 46 Carriages at £8.0.0 is £368.0.0
Proof 4 Carriages at £9.0.0 is £36.0.0
Proof 2 Carriages at £10.0.0 is £20.0.0
Sum is £487.0.0
and 10 per cent on this sum is £48.14.0
Amounting in all to £535.14.0 sterling

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P.4. Survey of the WHEEL CARRIAGE TAX in Haddingtonshire Continued

[Page] 52

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examina-
-tion I find the foregoing duties amount to the sum of Five hundred & thirty five
Pounds fourteen Shillings Sterling and that upon the 10th October 1792 I delivered
to Peter Wilkie depute Collector of these duties an exact duplicate of this Accompt
duely examined & compared which contained my Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants
were duely served with Requisitions And that they were charged according to their seve-
-ral returns or according to my knowledge & belief that they were liable in said duties

William Johnstone Surveyor

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