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A Survey of the Wheel-Carriage Tax in the Burgh of Peebles from the 5 of Aprile 1790 to the 5 of Aprile 1791 by William Brunton Surveyor

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I
find the above duties amount to the Sum of Seven pound and that upon the twenty seventh
day of November I delivered to John Hyslop Collector of these duties for the Burgh aforesaid
an exact Duplicate of the above which containd my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants
were duly served with requisitions of the dates foresaid desiring them within fourteen days
to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose an Attested list of all
the Servants Horses and Carriages used and employed by them from the 5 of Aprile 1789
to the 5 of Aprile 1790 as well as an Account of what Servants horses and Carriages they might use
and employ anywhere Else and the foregoing report was made up from their Several
Attested lists or returns to me from the best information I could procure or from my own certain
knowledge of their Respective Establishments
William Brunton