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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carriages 4 wheel carriages Duty
Lauder Parish
26 [Aug] 1788 Andrew Grey Norton for Hyre 2 2 £14.0.0
Channelkirk Parish
George Sommerville Airhouse 1 1 £3.10.0
George Sommerville Airhouse not returned last year 1 1 £3.10.0
2 2 £7.0.0
The Parishes Collected
Longfermacus 1 1 £7.0.0
Buncle 1 1 £3.10.0
Coldinghame 6 1 5 £38.10.0
Ayten 3 3 £21.0.0
Eymouth 3 1 2 £17.10.0
Chirnside 1 1 £7.0.0
Fowlden 1 1 £7.0.0
Hutton 3 1 2 £17.10.0
Ladykirk 1 1 £7.0.0
Edrom 7 1 6 £45.10.0
Dunse 5 2 3 £28.0.0
Langton 1 1 £3.10.0
Foggo 1 1 £3.10.0
Coldstream 4 4 £28.0.0
Eccles 3 3 £21.0.0
Greenlaw 3 3 £21.0.0
Westruther 1 1 £7.0.0
Earlston 4 1 3 £24.10.0
Martin 4 4 £28.0.0
Nenthorn 2 2 £14.0.0
Lauder 2 2 £14.0.0
Channelkirk 2 2 £7.0.0
59 12 47 £371.0.0

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Survey of WHEEL CARRIAGE TAX Continued


Proof 12 Carriages at £3.10.0 is £42.0.0
47 Carriages at £7.0.0 is £329.0.0
£371.0.0
NB. [Nota Bene] Lord Swinton enters in Edin. [Edinburgh]

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull examination I
[find] the foregoing Duties amount to Three hundred and Seventy one pounds Ster. [Sterling] And that upon the 17 Dec
[1]788 I delivered to David Renton Collr. [Collector] of said Duties an exact duplicate of this account duely examined
[and] compared which contained my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duely served with Requisitions
[a]nd that they were charged in Conformity to their several Returns Information Or my knowledge & belief
[t]hat they were liable in said duties.
William Johnstone Surveyor.

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