E326/9/16/54

Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # 2 horses 3-5 horses 6 or more horses Duty
Brought over 244 64 68 15 £36.15.0
6 Aug 1789 Revd Dr [Reverend Doctor] Henry 2 1 £0.3.9
17 Jul 1789 Mr Andrew Bonar Exchange 2 1 £0.3.9
13 Aug 1789 Mr Robertson Scott Advt [Advocate] 3 2 £0.11.3
Mrs Paxton Grass Market 2 1 £0.3.9
Miss Gray Hanover Street 2 1 £0.3.9
Total -- Inhts [Inhabitants] 102 255 153 -- 68 70 15 £38.1.3
102 Inhabitants liable
255 Actual Number of Horses
68 Horses at 3/9 [£0.3.9] each £12.15.0
70 Horses at 5/7 1/2 [£0.5.7 1/2] each £19.13.9
15 Horses at 7/6 [£0.7.6] each £5.12.6
[Total] £38.1.3
Account of Surcharges Vizt. [namely]
11 Mar 1790 Mr James Craig St Andrews Square 2 £0.7.6
Mrs Ross Hanover Street 2 £0.7.6
Grand Total £38.16.3

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[page] 54
City of Edinh [Edinburgh] from 1789 To 1790

I Robert Maughan Surveyor Aforesaid Do hereby Certify that
upon Careful examination of the Foregoing Rates & Duties I f [find]
they Amount in the Whole To Thirty Eight Pounds, Sixteen
Shillings & Three pence Sterling. And that upon the 13
Day of Febry [February] Seventeen hundred & Ninety Years I deliv [delivered]
To Mr George McQueen Collector of Said Duties for the City
of Edinh [Edinburgh] an exact Duplicate of the Foregoing Accompt dul [duly]
examined & Compared which contained my oaths that
Notices or requisitions were left with the several Inhabitants
or at their Dwelling Houses of the Dates annexed to their
respective Names By me [signed] Robert Maughan Surveyor

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Total number of horses charged for - 153 - added to Two Horses column.

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