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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # Carriage horses
(10s each)
Saddle horses
(10s each)
Duty
1787 Alexander Baillie Esqr. Provost 2 Carryage horses £1.0.0
Mr. John Barclay Writer 1 Sadle £0.10.0
Mr. David Ross Clark 1 Sadle £0.10.0
Mr. Alexander Morrison Mercht. [Merchant] 1 Sadle £0.10.0
Mr. Benjaman Ross Mercht. [Merchant] 1 Sadle £0.10.0
Mr. George Murray Mercht. [Merchant] 1 Sadle £0.10.0
Mr. Robert Murray Mercht. [Merchant] 1 Sadle £0.10.0
Mr. [Suttor] Sherrif Clerk 1 Sadle £0.10.0
Hugh McFarquhar Surgeon 1 Sadle £0.10.0
Mr. George Douglas Minr. [Minister] 1 Sadle £0.10.0
11 Horses £5.10.0

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[Page] 135
A Survey of the Duties on Horses, Arisin in the Burgh of Tain
from 5th April 1787 to 5th April 1788 By Hugh MacFarquhar Surveyor

I Hugh MacFarquhar Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby certify That upon
carefull examination of the foregoing Duties, I find they Amount in
whole to Five pounds & ten Shillings, And that upon the Seventeenth day
of Decr. [December] current I delivered to Mr. Alexander Morrison present Treasurer
& Collector of said Duties for the Burgh Aforesaid, An exact Duplicate
of the Above Acct. [Account] which containd my Oath that the Above list containd
the Number of Horses returned to me or were kept by the different
Masters, According to the best of my knowledge or Information
Hugh McFarquhar Surveyor
Tain 22d Decr. [22nd December] 1787

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