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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
Kirkaldie
21 Aug 1790 James Townsend Oswald Esq 2 1 1 £17.0.0
Provest Andrew Cowen 1 1 £8.0.0
Doctor Alexander Wemyss 1 1 £8.0.0
John Wilison Ventner 1 1 £7.0.0
Thomas Melldrum 1 1 £7.0.0
Mrs Christie Ventner 1 1 £7.0.0
7 3 3 1 £54.0.0

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Survey in the Burgh of Kirkaldie from the 5th April
1790 to 5th April 1791 By Charles Robb Surveyor

Prooff
3 publick Carriages at £7.0.0 £21.0.0
3 private Carriages at £8.0.0 £24.0.0
1 private Carriage at £9.0.0 £9.0.0
£54.0.0

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaed do hereby certify that upon careful Examination of the
foregoing duties I find they Amount in whole to Fefty Five pounds Sterlling and that
upon the Sixteen day of November I delivered to William Drysdell Collector of the
saed duties for the Burgh aforesaed an Exact duplicat of the above Account duly Examined
and compared with the foregoing which Contained My Oath that Nottices were left with the
Several parsons befor named or at their dwelling houses of the dates Anexed to their Respective
names Requiring them within fourteen dayes to give in a list of their Carriage or Saddle
horses (Retained or Employed by them from the 5 day of April 1789 to the 5 day of April 1790
and that the saed Account or Survey is made Out from the list Returned to me and from
the Best Information I could procure of the Carriage or Saddle horses (of those whose lists ar
deficient Neglected or Refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the Nottices left with them
as aforesed
Charles Robb Surveyor

Transcriber's notes

Surveyor got his dates wrong and has overwritten them.
He has also affixed a declaration relating to the Horse Tax rather than the Wheel Carriage Tax which this is.

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