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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # Carriage horses
(10s each)
Saddle horses
(10s each)
Duty
14 Sep 1787 Baillie John Taylor 1 1 £0.10.0
Robert Wilson Baker 1 1 £0.10.0
Mr James Liddell Surgeon 1 1 £0.10.0
Mr Ninian Paton 1 1 £0.10.0
John Baron 1 1 £0.10.0
Walter Wilson Baker 1 1 £0.10.0
15 Sep 1787 James Urquhart 2 2 £1.0.0
Totall 8 8 £4.0.0

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Survey of Carriage and Horse Tax. in the Town of Queensferry
From the 5th April 1787 To the 5th April 1788 by James Watsone Surveyor

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon
Carefull examination of the foregoing Duties I find they amount in
whole to the Sum of Four pounds Sterl. [Sterling] And that upon the fifth
of October last I delivered to Mr Robert Chapman Collector for the
said Borough an exact Duplicate hereof which contained my oath
that the severall persons beforenamed were duly served with
Requisitions whereby they were to be charged with the Returns
made, and sums hereby Certified to be due from them
James Watsone Surveyor
Linlithgow 6th Novemr [November]
1787

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