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A Survey of the WHEEL-CARRIAGE TAX in the Burgh of
Selkirk from the 5 of Aprile 1790 to the 5 of Aprile 1791 by William Brunton Survayor

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon Carefull examination
I find the above duties amounts to the Sum of Fourteen pound and that upon the 24th
day of Novr. [November] 1790 I delivered to Patrick Taitt 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 aforesaid
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 April 1789 to the 5 of April 1790 as well as an Account of what
servants Horses and Carriages they might use and employ any where Else and that
the foregoing report was made up from their Several Attested lists or Returns to me from
the best Information I could procure of from my own certain knowledge of their
respective Establishments
William Brunton