E326/7/14/78

Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carts 3-4 wheel wains/wagons Duty 10% per 31 George III
Parishes Collected
1. Hawick 3 £1.10.0 £0.1.0
2. Jedburgh 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
3. Eckford 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
4. Sprouston 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
5. Morebattle 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
6. Kelso 3 £1.10.0 £0.3.0
7. Ednam 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
8. Roxburgh 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
9. Wilton 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
Sum Total 13 £6.10.0 £0.13.0
Proof
13 carts at £0.10.0 each is £6.10.0
Ten per Cent thereon £0.13.0
Sum Total £7.3.0

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I George Roger Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify
that upon carefull Examination I find the forgoing duties
amount to the sum of Seven pounds three Shillings Str [Sterling]
and that upon the Twenty Second day of January Instant
I transmitted to Mr John Rutherford Collector of the
duties an Exact Duplicate of the accompt containing [my]
Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly Served with
Requisitions of the dates therein contained, and that they were
charged conform to their several Returns, or the best Information
and were liable to pay the sums thereby certified to be
due by them.
George Rodger Surveyor
January 1798

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