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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carriages 4 wheel carriages Duty
Auldearn Parish
Miss Brodie Lethen 1 1 £7.0.0
Total 1 1 £7.0.0
Croy Parish
Lady Kilravock 1 1 £7.00
Capt. [Captain] John Grant Achindown 1 1 £3.10.0
Total 2 1 1 £10.10.0
Parishes collected
Auldearn Parish 1 1 £7.0.0
Croy Parish 2 2 2 £10.10
Total 3 1 2 £17.10.0
Prooff
1 Two wheeled Carriage at £3.10.0 P. [Per] annum is £3.10.0
2 Four wheeled Carriage at £7.0.0 each P. [Per] annum is £14.0.0
Total £17.10.0

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[Page] 115
Survey of the WHEEL CARRIAGE TAX arisen in Nairn County from the 5th day of April 1786 to the 5 Day of April 1787 by Pat. [Patrick] McDonald Surveyor

I Patrick McDonald Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that
upon careful examination of the forgoing several Rates and Duties
I find they amount in the whole to Seventeen Pounds Ten Shillings
Sterling and that I Delivered to Duncan Campbell Collector of said
Duties for the County of Nairn upon the 29 December 1786 an exact
Duplicate of the above account Duly Examined & compared which
contained my Oath that Notices were Left with the whole forgoing
Inhabitants or at their Dwelling Houses of the respective Dates
Aforesaid In order that they might make a Report of the Greatest Number
of Two or Four wheeled Carriages retained or Employed by
them for the Period therein mentioned which they Did on this
[in]stance as above Patrick McDonald Surveyor

Sworn before me at Forres this 11 Day of January 1787
Alexander Grant J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

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