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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carts 3-4 wheel wains/wagons Duty 10% per 31 George III
1791 Parishes Collected
1 Linlithgow Parish 14 14 £1.8.0 £0.2.9.6
2 Borness Town & Parish 40 40 £4.0.0 £0.8.0.0
3 Carridden Parish 39 39 £3.18.0 £0.7.9.6
4 Abercorn Parish 11 11 £1.2.0 £0.2.2.4
5 Kirkliston Parish 5 5 £0.10.0 £0.1.0.0
6 Dalmaney Parish 3 3 £0.6.0 £0.0.7.2
7 Ecclesmachan Parish 8 8 £0.16.0 £0.1.7.2
8 Uphall Parish 14 14 £1.8.0 £0.2.9.6
9 Livingstone Parish 11 11 £1.2.0 £0.2.2.4
10 Bathgate Parish 37 37 £3.14.0 £0.7.4.8
11 Torphichen Parish 10 10 £1.0.0 £0.2.0.0
12 Whitburn Parish 26 26 £2.12.0 £0.5.2.4
Total 218 218 £21.16.0 £2.3.7.2

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[Page] 257 (8th.)
Linlithgow County Cart Tax Survey Continued

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218 Carts @ £0.2.0 Each is £21.16.0
To 10 per Ct [Cent] on the same £2.3.7.2/10
Totall .. £28.19.7.2/10

I James Watsone Surveyor do hereby certify that upon careful
Examination of the foregoing Rates and duties I find they amount in whole
to the sum of Twenty Eight Pounds Nineteen shillings and Sevenpence
Two Tenths Sterling And that upon the thirteenth day of October
last I delivered to Mr. James Taylor Collector for the foresaid County an
Exact Dupplicate of the foregoing Survey which contained my oath
that the several persons before named were duly served with Requis
itions and Notices whereby they were to be charged with the several
duties hereby certified to be due by them
Linlithgow 2nd November. James Watsone Surveyor
1791

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The final total has been changed but does not tally with individual Parishes, possible some of the carry over totals have also been added in

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