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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
The Burgh of Peebles
13 [--r] 1797 Miss Ritchie in Peebles 1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0 £0.14.0
Proof
1 Carriage @ £7.0.0 is £7.0.0
£7.0.0 @ 10 per cent is £0.14.0
£7.0.0 @ 10 per cent is £0.14.0
Sum Total £8.8.0

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A Survey of the Wheel-Carriage Tax in the Burgh of Peebles
from the 5 of April 1797 to the 5 of April 1798 By William Brunton Surveyor

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the
foregoing duties I find they amount to the Sum of Eight pounds and eight Shillings and that upon the
-- day of -- I delivered to James Hall Collector of said duties for the Burgh aforesaid
an exact duplicate of the above duly compared 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 and Attested list of all the Carriages used and employed
by them from the 5 of April 1797 to the 5 of April 1798 as well as an Account of what Carriages they might
use and & employ any where Else And that the foregoing report was made up from their sworn & attested lists or
returns to me from the best information I coud procure or from my own certain knowledge of their
respective Establishments. -
William Brunton

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