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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
7 Oct 1790 Doctor John Gilchrist 1 1 £8.0.0
Mrs Walter Riddell 1 1 £8.0.0
8 Oct 1790 Commissary Thomas Goldie 1 1 £3.10.0
Captain John Hamilton 1 1 £8.0.0
7 Dec 1790 Revd. [Reverend] Doctor Babington 1 1 £3.10.0
9 Dec 1790 Mr Thomas Clint Vintner 3 3 £21.0.0
Doctor John Harley 1 1 £7.0.0
Henry Dickson 1 1 £7.0.0
10 Dec 1790 Mrs McVitie Vintner 3 3 £21.0.0
Doctor Copland 1 1 £3.10.0
Mrs Lowthian Rosehall 1 1 £8.0.0
George Aitken, one 2 Wheel Caravan 1 1 £3.10.0
Thomas Dickson one 2 Wheel Caravan 1 1 £3.10.0
17 5 8 4 £105.10.0

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Report of the [Wheel-carriage Tax] in the Burgh of
Dumfries for the year ending 5th April 1791 By [William Currie]


5 Carriages at £3.10.0 each £17.10.0
8 Carriages at £7.0.0 each £56.0.0
4 Carriages at £8.0.0 each £32.0.0
£105.10.0

I William Currie Surveyo aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull
examination I find the foregoing duties Amount to the sum of One Hundred
and five pounds ten shillings And that upon the 11th day of Decem. [December] 1790
I delivered to Mr Francis Maxwell Colltr [Collector] of said duties an exact duplicate
of which Accopts [Accompts] duly 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 &
according to my knowledge and belief that they were Liable in
said duties

William Currie Surveyor
Joseph Johnston J:P [Justice of the Peace]

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