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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 10%
South Leith continued 24 4 16 4 £158.0.0 £15.16.0
Andrew Elliot Esq. 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
25 4 16 5 £166.0.0 £16.12.0
Parishes Collected
West Kirk 64 5 32 24 3 £460.10.0 £46.1.0
Connongate 14 2 9 3 £113.0.0 £11.6.0
South Leith 25 4 16 5 £166.0.0 £16.12.0
103 9 50 38 6 £739.10.0 £73.19.0
Proof
50 Carriages at £7.0.0 £350.0.0
38 Carriages at £8.0.0 £304.0.0
6 Carriages at £9.0.0 £54.0.0
9 Carriages at £3.10.0 £31.10.0
£739.10.0
Duty £739.10.0
10 per Cent on the above £73.19.0
Amount £813.9.0

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[Page] 103
Wheel-Carriage Tax

Sir
I John Taitt Surv. [Surveyor] aforesaid, do hereby Certify that upon
examination I find the foregoing Duties amount to the Sum of
Eight hundred and thirteen pounds, nine Shillings, and
that upon the 26th day of March 1792 I delivered to
George Cranston Collr. [Collector] an exact Duplicate of the above
which Contained my oath that the preceding Inhabitants
were duly Served with reqn. [requisitions] of the dates foresaid & that they are
charged, conformably to their Returns to me, or from the best information
John Taitt

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