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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # 2 horses 3-5 horses 6 or more horses Duty
7 [--] 1789 Mrs. Johnston of Huttonha 2 1 £0.3.9
Capt. [Captain] Den 2 1 £0.3.9
Sir James Baird 2 1 £0.3.9
Sir John Maxwell 3 2 £0.11.3
Capt. [Captain] Maitland 2 1 £0.3.9
Dr. [Doctor] Richard Sommers 3 2 £0.11.3
6 14 8/4 4 £1.17.6
Proof 4 Horses at 3/9p [£0.3.9] being 3/4 of 5/- [£0.5.0] is £0.15.0
4 Horses at 5/7 1/2 [£0.5.8 1/2] being 3/4 of 7/6 [£0.7.6] is £1.2.6
£1.17.6 Sterg. [Sterling]

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Survey of the
ADDITIONAL CARRIAGE and RIDING HORSE TAX. in the
Royalty of Haddington from the 5 July 1789 to 5 April 1790 by Will Johnstone Survr. [Surveyor]

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull ex:
:amination I find the foregoing duties amount to One pound seventeen shillings &
six pence Ster. [Sterling] And that on 29 Decemr. [December] 1789 I delivered to John Carfrae Collector of
said duties an exact duplicate of this Account duely examined & compared which con:
:tained my Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were duely served with Requisitions
of the above date And that they were charged according to their several returns, or
according to my knowledge & belief that they were liable in said duties.

[signed] Will Johnstone Surveyor

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