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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carts 3-4 wheel wains/wagons Duty 10% per 31 George III
Salton Parish
4 Jul 1797 General Fletcher Saltonhall 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
Lady Sinclair Herdmanston 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
2 £1.0.0 £0.2.0
Whitekirk Parish
5 Jul 1797 John Murray Ricklandhill 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
Preston Parish
10 Jul 1797 Mrs Reid Broomrig 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
Gifford Parish
12 Jul 1797 Mark Proudfoot 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
Prestonpans Parish
24 Jul 1797 Countess of Hyndford 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
Tranent Parish
William Aitchison Clements wells 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
Salton 2 £1.0.0 £0.2.0
Whitekirk 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
Preston 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
Gifford 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
Prestonpans 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
Tranent 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
7 £3.10.0 £0.7.0

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COVERED CARRIAGES or CARTS with less than Four Wheels per 35 Geo.III. Cap cix.
in Haddingtonshire from the 5 April 1797 to 5 April 1798

7 Carts @ 10/- [£0.10.0] £3.10.0
10 per cent thereon £0.7.0
£3.17.0

I John Menzies Surveyor do hereby Certify that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find that they amount
on the whole to the sum of Three Pounds Seventeen shillings Sterling
and that upon the thirtyeth day of October I delivered to
George Donaldson Deputy Collector of these Duties an exact
Duplicate of the acct [account] duly examined and Compared which contained my oath that Requisitions were sent to the foregoing
Inhabitants of the preceeding dates and that they were charged the
sums annexed to each of their names According to the answers they
made and Requisitions or according to my knowledge and belief
that they were liable in these duties
John Menzies Surveyor

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