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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carts 3-4 wheel wains/wagons Duty 10% per 31 George III
9 Jul 1791 Bouden Parish
James Gordon Bouden 2 2 £0.4.0 £0.0.4.8
John Edgar Bouden 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
John Scott Boudon 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
William Swanston Nether Mill 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
John Murray Near Hayfield 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
6 6 £0.12.0 £0.1.2.4
9 Jul 1791 Melrose Parish
James Broomfield Melrose 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
Andrew Wilson Melrose 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
John Elliot Newlands 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
3 3 £0.6.0 £0.0.7.2
Parishes Collected
Hawick Parish 25 25 £2.10.0 0.5.0.0
Part of Roberton Parish 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
Cavers Parish 4 4 £0.8.0 £0.0.9.6
Sprouston Parish 4 4 £0.8.0 £0.0.9.6
Kelso Parish 35 34 1 £3.12.0 £0.7.2.4
Ednam Parish 2 2 £0.4.0 £0.0.4.8
Wilton Parish 6 6 £0.12.0 £0.1.2.4
Lilliesleaf Parish 8 8 £0.16.0 £0.1.7.2
Lessnden Parish 12 12 £1.4.0 £0.2.4.8
Bouden Parish 6 6 £0.12.0 £0.1.2.4
Melrose Parish 3 3 £0.6.0 £0.0.7.2
106 105 1 £10.14.0 £1.1.4.8

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105Carts @ £0.2.0 Each is £10.10.0.0
1 Cart @ £0.4.0 Each is £0.4.0.0
£10.14.0.0
£10.14.0 @ Tax for Carts is £1.1.4.8
Sum Total. £11.15.4.8

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination
I find the above dutys amount to the Sum of Eleven pound Fifteen Shillings fourpence [and]
eight Tenths and that upon the twenty day of October I delivered to John Rutherford [Collector]
of said dutys for the shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above which contained my [oath]
that the preceeding inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions of the dates foresaid [requiring]
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 fifth]
of April Ninety one to the fifth of April Ninety two as well as an account of what Servants [Horses]
and carriages they might use and employ any where Else And that the forgoing report [was]
made up from their severall 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

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