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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carriages 4 wheel carriages Private: one carriage Private: two carriages Private: three + carriages Duty
The Parishes Collected
Ayton 2 2 £16.0.0
Eyemouth 1 1 £3.10.0
Coldinghame 5 1 2 1 1 £34.10.0
Buncle 1 1 £3.10.0
Chirnside 1 1 £8.0.0
Hutton 4 1 3 £27.10.0
Edrom 4 4 £32.0.0
Dunse 4 1 1 1 1 £27.10.0
Coldstream 4 4 £32.0.0
Eccles 3 3 £24.0.0
Greenlaw 4 2 2 £30.0.0
Westruther 1 1 £8.0.0
Lauder 2 2 £14.0.0
Channelkirk 1 1 £3.10.0
Earlston 4 1 2 1 £28.10.0
Martin 5 1 3 1 £36.10.0
Nenthorn 2 2 £16.0.0
Longformacus 1 1 £8.0.0
49 8 7 30 4 £353.0.0

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Wheel-Carriage Tax

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8 Carriages at £3.10.0 is £28.0.0
7 Carriages at £7.0.0 is £49.0.0
30 Carriages at £8.0.0 is £240.0.0
4 Carriages at £9.0.0 is £36.0.0
49 £353.0.0 Sterg. [Sterling]

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination
I find the foregoing duties amount to the sum of Three hundred & fifty three pounds
Sterling And that upon the 10 Novemr. [November] 1790 I delivered to David Renton Collector of these
duties an exact duplicate of this account duely examined and Compared which contained
my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duely served with Requisitions and that
they were charged in conformity to their several returns Or according to my knowledge &
belief that they were liable in said duties.
William Johnstone Surveyor.

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