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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
Berwickshire continued
The Parishes Collected
Foulden 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0 £0.16.0
Eymouth 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0 £0.16.0
Ayton 3 1 2 £19.10.0 £1.19.0 £1.19.0
Coldinghame 5 2 3 £28.0.0 £2.16.0 £2.16.0
Chirnside 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0 £0.16.0
Hutton 2 1 1 £11.10.0 £1.3.0 £1.3.0
Ladykirk 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0 £0.16.0
Edrom 6 5 1 £49.0.0 £4.18.0 £4.18.0
Dunse 7 2 2 1 2 £59.0.0 £5.18.0 £5.18.0
Langton 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0 £0.16.0
Coldstream 5 1 4 £35.0.0 £3.11.0 £3.11.0
Eccles 4 4 £32.0.0 £3.4.0 £3.4.0
Greenlaw 5 1 2 2 £33.10.0 £3.7.0 £3.7.0
Lauder 2 2 £14.0.0 £1.18.0 £1.18.0
Earlston 5 1 3 1 £36.10.0 £3.13.0 £3.13.0
Martin 3 1 2 £19.10.0 £1.19.0 £1.19.0
Nenthorn 2 2 £16.0.0 £1.12.0 £1.12.0
54 8 9 32 3 2 £394.0.0 £39.8.0 £39.8.0

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Survey of Wheel Carriage Tax continued

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8 Carriages at £3.10.0 is £28.0.0
9 Carriages at £7.0.0 is £63.0.0
32 Carriages at £8.0.0 is £256.0.0
3 Carriages at £9.0.0 is £27.0.0
2 Carriages at £10.0.0 is £20.0.0
Sum is £394.0.0
and 10 percent on £394.0.0 per 31 George 3d. is £39.8.0
and 10 percent on £394.0.0 per 36 George 3d. is £39.8.0
Total amount of these duties is £472.16.0 Sterling

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful examination I find
the foregoing duties amount to the sum of Four hundred and Seventy two Pounds sixteen shillings Ster.[sterling]
and that upon the 2nd December 1797 I delivered to David Renton Collector of said duties an exact duplicate
of this Acct. [Account] duly examined and compared which contained my Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants
were duly served with requisitions and that they were charged in conformity to their several
returns or according to my knowledge and belief that they were liable in said duties
William Johnstone Surveyor

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