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A Survey of the Wheel Carriage Tax in the Burgh of Selkirk from
the 5 April 1792 to the 5 of April 1793 by William Brunton Surveyor

Proof
2 Carriages @ £7.0.0 Each is £14.0.0
£14.0.0 @ 10 pr Cent [per cent] is £1.8.0
Sum Total £15.8.0

I William Brunton surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon full examination I find the above
dutys Amount to the Sum of Fifteen Pounds eight Shillings and that upon the twelvth day of Octobr. [October] 1792
I delivered to Patrick Tait Collector of said dutys for the Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate
of the above which contained my Oath that the preceeding 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
5 of April 1792 to the 5 April 1793 as well as an acount of what Servants Horses and Carriages they might
use and employ any where Else and that the forgoing Report was made up from these 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