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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # 1 horse 2 horses 3-5 horses 6 or more horses Duty 10% per 31 George III 10% per 36 George III
The Parishes Collected
Foulden 12 10 2 £6.15.0 £0.13.6 £6.15.0
Mordington 13 7 6 £8.19.0 £0.17.6 £8.19.0
Eyemouth 13 11 2 £7.0.0 £0.14.0 £7.0.0
Ayton 22 20 2 £11.10.0 £1.3.0 £11.10.0
Coldinghame 39 38 1 £19.15.0 £1.19.6 £19.15.0
Cockburnspath 15 15 £7.10.0 £0.15.0 £7.10.0
Abbay St.Bathans 3 3 £1.10.0 £0.3.0 £1.10.0
Cranshaws 3 3 £1.10.0 £0.3.0 £1.10.0
Longformacus 9 9 £4.10.0 £0.9.0 £4.10.0
Buncle 14 2 2 £7.15.0 £0.15.6 £7.15.0
Chirnside 20 15 2 3 £11.12.6 £1.3.3 £11.12.6
Hutton 15 13 2 £8.0.0 £0.16.0 £8.0.0
Ladykirk 9 8 1 £4.15.0 £0.9.6 £4.15.0
Swinton 14 13 1 £7.5.0 £0.14.6 £7.5.0
Whitsome 9 9 £4.10.0 £0.9.0 £4.10.0
Edrom 38 25 2 11 £23.12.6 £2.7.3 £23.12.6
Dunse 42 30 1 4 7 £26.5.0 £2.12.6 £26.5.0
Langton 9 6 1 2 £5.10.0 £0.11.0 £5.10.0
Polwarth 2 2 £1.0.0 £0.2.0 £1.0.0
Foggo 10 8 2 £5.10.0 £0.11.0 £5.10.0
Coldstream 31 25 4 2 £17.5.0 £1.14.6 £17.5.0
Eccles 51 41 2 8 £29.0.0 £2.18.0 £29.0.0
Greenlaw 29 25 1 3 £15.17.6 £1.11.9 £15.17.6
Gordon 12 12 £6.0.0 £0.12.0 £6.0.0
Legertwood 5 4 1 £2.15.0 £0.5.6 £2.15.0
Westruther 10 10 £5.0.0 £0.10.0 £5.0.0
Channelkirk 11 10 1 £5.15.0 £0.11.6 £5.15.0
Lauder 12 12 £6.0.0 £0.12.0 £6.0.0
Earlston 34 16 2 6 10 £24.15.0 £2.9.6 £24.15.0
Martin 22 13 2 7 £14.2.6 £1.8.3 £14.2.6
Nenthorn 14 8 1 5 £9.15.0 £0.19.6 £9.15.0
542 433 31 56 22 £310.15.0 £31.1.6 £310.15.0

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Proof: 433 Horses at 10/- [£0.10.0] is £216.10.0
31 Horses at 15/- [£0.15.0] is £23.5.0
56 Horses at 17/6 [£0.17.6] is £49.0.0
22 Horses at 20/- [£1.0.0] is £22.0.0
Sum of these Duties is £310.15.0

and 10 p. [per] cent on £310.15.0 is £31.1.6
and the Additional duties p 36 Geo 'III' is £310.15.0
Total Amount of these Duties is £652.11.6 Sterling

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That when carefull examination of the
[fore] going duties I find that they amount to the sum of Six Hundred and Fifty two Pounds Eleven shillings [and]
six pence Ster [Sterling] and that upon the 2nd Dec. [December] 1797 I delivered to David Renton Collr. [Collector] of said duties an exact duplicate [of] this Acct. [Account] duely examined and compared which contained my Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were duely [served]
with requisitions and that they were charged in conformity to their several Returns or according to [my]
knowledge & belief that they were liable in said duties.
William Johnstone Survr. [Surveyor]

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