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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carts 3-4 wheel wains/wagons Duty 10% per 31 George III
13 Dec 1797 The Burgh of Peebles
Robert Elphiston in Peebles 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0

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32 Peebles [Page] 101

Covered Carriages or Carts with less than Four Wheels, per 35 Geo. III. Cap. cix.
Survey of the above Tax on Carts By William Brunton Surveyor

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1 Carriage @ £0.10.0 Each is £0.10.0
£1.10.0 @ 10 per cent is £0.1.0
Sum Total £0.11.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination
I find the above duty amounts to the Sum of Eleven Shillings And that upon the
day of -- delivered to James Hall Collector of said duty for the Burgh
foresaid an exact duplicate of the above duty compared which contained my Oath
the preceeding inhabitant was duly served with a requisition of the date foresaid desiring
him within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that
purpose . An Attested list of all the covered Carts used and employed by him from the
5 of April 1797 to the 5 of April 1798 as well as an account of what Carriages he might
use and employ any where else from the best information I coud procure or from my
own certain knowledge of his respective Establishment
William Brunton

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