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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%
25 Jul 1792 John Lorimer vintr. [vintner] for Hyre 3 3 £21.0.0 £2.2.0
James Fraser vintr. [vintner] for Hyre 1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
David Pringle brewer for Hyre 2 2 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
6 2 4 £35.0.0 £3.10.0
Proof 2 Carriages at £3.10.0 is £7.0.0
Proof 4 Carriages at £7.0.0 is £28.0.0
Sum is £35.0.0
and 10 p.cent [per cent]on this is £3.10.0
the amount is £38.10.0 Sterling

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Survey of the WHEEL-CARRIAGE TAX in the Royalty of
Dunbar from the 5 April 1792 to 5th April 1793 by William Johnstone Srvyr. ]Surveyor]

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I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull exami:
:nation I find the foregoing Duties amount to the sum of Thirty eight Pounds ten shill:
:ings Sterling And that upon the 9th Octr. [October] 1792. I delivered to Patrick Halyburton Collector
of said duties an exact duplicate of this Accompt duely examined & compared which
contained my Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were duely served with requisi:
:tions and that they were charged according to the returns they made thereto.

William Johnstone Surveyor

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