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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% per 31 10% per 36
Abstract Westkirk parish 98 10 33 51 4 £710.0.0 £71.0.0 £71.0.0
South Leith parish 26 5 15 6 £170.10.0 £17.0.0 £17.10.0
Canongate 12 1 1 8 2 £92.10.0 £9.5.0 £9.5.0
Total 136 16 49 65 6 £973.0.0 £97.6.0 £97.6.0
6 Mar 1798 Surcharge
John Cundill Brewer 1 1 £16.0.0 £1.12.0 £1.12.0

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16 Carriages with 2 wheels at £3.10.0 each £56.0.0 £5.12.0
49 Publick Carriages with four wheels at £7.0.0 each £343.0.0 £34.6.0
65 Private Carriages with four wheels at £8.0.0 each £520.0.0 £52.0.0
6 Private carriages with four wheels at £9.0.0 each £54.0.0 £5.8.0
£973.0.0 £97.6.0
£973.0.0 at the Rate of 20 per Cent £194.12
£1167.12

I John Scott asst. [assistant] Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful
examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount in
whole to the Sum of one thousand, one hundred and Eighty six pounds, and sixteen
Shillings Sterling; and that upon the 7th. March Currt. [Current] I delivered into the
office of George Cranstoun Esq. a full Duplicate of this Acct. [Account] which contained
my oath that the preceding Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions
of the Dates annexed to their Respective names, and that this account
is made up from their several Returns to me or from the best
information I could procure when they failed to make such Returns
John Scott
Edin [Edinburgh] 12 March 1798

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