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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # Carriage horses
(10s each)
Saddle horses
(10s each)
Duty
1786 The Burgh of Dumfries
18 [...] 1786 Francis Short writer in Dumfries 1 £0.5.0
16 [...] 1786 James Ramsay Collector of the Excise in Dumfries 2 £0.10.0
Doctor John Gilchrist in Dumfries 2 £0.10.0
18 [...] 1786 Robert Ramsay writer in Dumfries 1 £0.5.0
Doctor Alexander Coupland in Dumfries 1 £0.5.0
John Hamilton of Aldershaw in Dumfries 2 £0.10.0
11 [...] 1786 Comisary Thomas Goldy in Dumfries 1 £0.5.0
12 [...] 1786 William Lawson Mercht. [Merchant] in Dumfries 1 £0.5.0
21 [...] 1786 David Haig Banker in Dumfries 1 £0.5.0
Robert Riddel of Carile in Dumfries 1 £0.5.0
13 £3.5.0

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DUMFRIES 15

A Survey of the Carriage and Horse Tax. in the Burgh of
Dumfries from 10th of Oct 1785 to 5th of Apr 1786 William Brunton Sur [Surveyor]

13 Horses at 5 sh [Shillings] [£0.5.0] each is £3.5.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforsaid do Hereby Certify
that upon Careful Examination of foregoing Several Rates
& Duties I find they amount to in Whole £3.5.0 Sterling
& that upon the 18 Mar 1786 I sent by post to Francis Maxwell
Collector of the said Duties in the Burgh aforesaid an
exact Duplicate of the above acct [account] duly examined & Compared
with the foregoing and I do make Oath the Above is a just
List returned by the several Inhabitants when requisition
were made of the several Dates aforsaid
William Brunton

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