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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
1797 Wick Parish
13 Oct 1797 James Sinclair Esqr of Forss 1 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0 £0.10.0
David Brodie Esqr of Hopvil 1 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0 £0.10.0
2 2 £1.0.0 £0.2.0 £1.0.0
Parishes Collected
Bower Parish 3 3 £1.10.0 £0.3.0 £1.10.0
Canisbay 4 2 2 £2.15.0 £0.5.6 £2.15.0
Halkirk 2 2 £1.0.0 £0.2.0 £1.0.0
Latheron 4 4 £2.0.0 £0.4.0 £2.0.0
Olrig 4 2 2 £2.15.0 £0.5.6 £2.15.0
Reay 1 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0 £0.10.0
Thurso 5 5 £2.10.0 £0.5.0 £2.10.0
Thurso Burgh 9 9 £4.10.0 £0.9.0 £4.10.0
Wattin Parish 1 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0 £0.10.0
Wick 2 2 £1.0.0 £0.2.0 £1.0.0
35 31 4 £19.0.0 £1.18.0 £19.0.0
10 pr ct [per cent] £1.18.0
Addl. [Additional] Duty £19.0.0
£39.18.0 Total

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Proof No. [Number] Horses
31 Horses @ £0.10.0 Each is £15.10.0
4 Horses @ £0.17.6 ...................£3.10.0
.......................................................£19.0.0
10 pr Ct [per Cent].......................£1.18.0
Addl [Additional] Duty.......... ......£19.0.0
.....................................................£39.18.0 Total

I John Reid Surveyor aforesaid, Do Certify that upon careful examination
I find the foregoing Duties amount to Thirty nine pounds eighteen shillings Stg [Sterling]
and that on the -- day of -- I delivered to John Davidson
Collr [Collector] of said Duties, an exact duplicate hereof, containing my oath that the preceeding
inhabitants were duly Served with Reqns [Requisitions] of the Dates foresaid, and that the Charges were
made up agt [against] these [respectively], According to their own Returns, or the best information I could [obtain]
John Reid Surveyor

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Saddle Horse Tax
Caithness Shire
1798
Exd. Pr. GS [Examined Per General Surveyor]
E326/9/29
No 7

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