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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carriages 4 wheel carriages Duty
4 Aug 1788 Dumfries Burgh
Dr [Doctor] John Gilkerst Dumfries 1 1 £7.0.0
Mrs Lothing of Rosehall in Dumfries 1 1 £7.0.0
Capt [Captain] John Hamilton in Dumfries 1 1 £7.0.0
Dr. [Doctor] Couplan in Dumfries 1 1 £3.10.0
Mrs Colltr. [Collector] Ramsay in Dumfries 1 1 £7.0.0
Thomas Clyent Vintiner in Dumfries 3 3 £21.0.0
Dr. [Doctor] John Harley for Hyre in Dumfries 1 1 £7.0.0
16 Aug 1788 Comiser [Commissary] Thomas Goldie in Dumfries 1 1 £3.10.0
James Carruthers Esq of Warmbie in Dumfries 1 1 £3.10.0
Mrs Mcvitty Vintiner in Dumfries 3 3 £21.0.0
[total] 14 3 11 £87.10.0

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Survey of the [Wheel Carriage Tax] in the Burgh of Dumfries
from the 5th of April 1788 to 5th of April 1789 by William Currie Surveyor


Proof 3 two wheel Carriage at £3.10.0 Each is £10.10.0
11 four wheel Carriage at £7.0.0 Each is £77.0.0
£87.10.0

I William Currie aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull examination of the
foregoing several Rates and duties I find they Amount in whole to Eighty Seven Pounds
Ten Shillings Sterling and that upon the 26 day of dec [december] 1788 I delivered to Mr Francis
Maxwell Collr [Collector] for the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the foregn [foregoing]
which Containd my Oath that Requesitions were left with the Several Inhabitants
or at the dwelling Houses of the date anexed to their Respective Names and the Above
is an exact duplicate of the Returns made by them to me or when that faild
by the best Infirmation I Could get

William Currie Surveyor

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