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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
23 -- 1797 Mr Thomas Fairbairn Vintr [Vintner] Licensed to Post 1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0 £0.14.0
Proof
1 Publick Carriage @ £7.0.0 £7.0.0
To the 1st 10 per cent thereon £0.14.0
To the 2nd 10 per cent thereon £0.14.0
Totall £8.8.0

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Survey of the Wheel-Carriage Tax in the Borough of
Queensferry from the 5th April 1797 to the 5th April 1798. James Watsone Surveyor

I James Watson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that the above
Mr. Thomas Fairbairn was duly served with a Requisition and Notice
whereby he was to be charged with the duty of the above Carriage
And that upon the twenty fourth day of November last I delivered
to Mr. Robert Murray Collector for the foresaid Borough of
Queensferry an exact Duplicate of this Survey which contained
my Oath to that effect.
James Watson Surveyor
Linlithgow 5th December
1797

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