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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # Carriage horses
(10s each)
Saddle horses
(10s each)
Duty
19 Oct 1787 Town of Elgin
Doctor Alexander Brodie 1 1 £0.10.0
Mr King Newmill 1 1 £0.10.0
James Knight hirer 2 2 £1.0.0
Thomas Sellar Writer 1 1 £0.10.0
Baillie Alexander Brander 1 1 £0.10.0
William Brodie Esq 1 1 £0.10.0
Provost Brown 1 1 £0.10.0
Mr Alexander Chalmers 1 1 £0.10.0
Sir George Abercrombie 2 2 £1.0.0
James Simpson Mercht [Merchant] 1 1 £0.10.0
Mr Callum Supervisor 1 1 £0.10.0
Robert Mitchel hirer 1 1 £0.10.0
Widdow Tom hirer 1 1 £0.10.0
Doctor Stephen 1 1 £0.10.0
John Jameson Mercht [Merchant] 1 1 £0.10.0
William Alves hirer 1 1 £0.10.0
William Williamson Merch [Merchant] 1 1 £0.10.0
Baillie John Ritchie 1 1 £0.10.0
Mr Gordon Minr [Minister] 1 1 £0.10.0
21 21 £10.10.0

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A Survey of the Carriage and Horse Tax Arisin in the Town
of Elgin from 5th April 1787 to 5th April 1788 by Patrick McDonald Surveyor
[Page] 55

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21 Horses @ £0.10.0 each for a year is £10.10.0

I Patrick McDonald Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing Several rates and duties on Sadle Horses
I find they amount in whole to Ten Pound ten Shillings Sterling
and that upon the Twentieth day of November 1787 I delivered to James
Young Collector of Said duties for the Town of Elgin aforesaid an
exact duplicate of the foregoing acco [account] duly examined and compared with
the foregoing which containd my oath that the foregoing inhabitants were
duly Served with requisitions of the dates aforesaid and that the assess-
-ments are made up from the Lists and answers now in my possession
Patrick McDonald Surveyor
Sworn before me at Forres the 10th Nov [November] 1787 Alexander Grant J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

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