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Survey of the Rates & Duties on Wheel Carriages arisen in the Burgh of Aberbrothock for
Year commencing the 5th April 1786 & ending 5th April 1787 by William Greig Surveyor


I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination
of the foregoing duties I find they amount in whole to Seventeen Pounds
Ten Shillings Ster [Sterling] and that upon the -- day of March 1787 I delivered Mr
John Colvell Collector of the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact
duplicate of the above Account as will appear from --- duly
examined and compaired with the foregoing which contained my Oath that
Nottices were left with the several inhabitants before named requiring them
within fourteen days to give in a list of their Carriages retained or employed
by them from the 5th of April 1785 to the 5 April 1786 and that the said
account or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me, and from
the best information I could procure of the Carriages of those who neglected or
refused to give in a list there of in terms of the notices left with them as
aforesaid

William Greig Surveyor