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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%
Parishes Collected
Hutton 3 1 2 £19.10.0 £1.19.0
Coldstream 4 4 £32.0.0 £3.4.0
Eccles 3 3 £24.0.0 £2.8.0
Edrom 4 4 £32.0.0 £3.4.0
Chirnside 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Buncle 1 1 £3.10.0 £0.7.0
Dunse 4 1 1 1 1 £27.10.0 £2.15.0
Langton 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Greenlaw 4 2 2 £30.0.0 £3.0.0
Nenthorn 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Martin 5 1 3 1 £36.10.0 £3.13.0
Earlston 4 1 2 1 £2.8.10 £2.17.0
Channelkirk 1 1 £3.10.0 £0.7.0
Westruther 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Longformacus 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Ayton 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Eymouth 2 1 1 £11.10.0 £1.3.0
Coldinghame 5 2 2 1 £29.0.0 £2.18.0
Total 46 9 5 29 3 £325.10.0 £32.11.0
Note Ommitted Lauder - Andrew Gray in Norton 2 2 £14.0.0 £1.8.0
Grand Total 48 9 7 29 3 £339.10.0 £33.19.0

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Survey of the Wheel Carriage Tax in Berwickshire continued

Proof
9 carriages @ £3.10.0 each is £31.10.0
5 carriages @ £7.0.0 each is £35.0.0
29 carriages @ £8.0.0 each is £232.0.0
3 carriages @ £9.0.0 each is £27.0.0
Total £325.10.0
and 10% on £325.10.0 is £32.11.0
amounting in all to £358.1.0 Sterling
add Andrew Gray in Norton Lauder Brish [Berwickshire] for 2 Car. [Carriages] £14.0.0
and 10% therein £1.8.0
amounting in all to £373.9.0 Sterling

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I
find the foregoing duties amount to Three hundred and seventy three pounds nine shillings Ster. [Sterling]
and that upon the 25 Oct [October] 1791 I delivered to David Renton the Collector of said duties an exact
duplicate of this amount duly examined and compared which contained my oath that the preceeding
Inhabitants were duly served with requisitions And that they were charged in conformity
to their several returns or according to my knowledge and belief that they they were liable in said
duties
William Johnstone Surveyor

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