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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%
1791 Canisbay Parish
16 Jul 1791 The Rt Honble. [Right Honourable] Lord Caithness May 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Olrick Parish
18--1791 James Traill of Hobister Castlehill 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Thurso Parish
29 Jun 1791 Mr Alexander Mcleod at Murkle 1 1 £3.10.0 £0.7.0
Parishes Collected
Canisbay Parish 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Olrick Parish 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Thurso Parish 1 1 £3.10.0 £0.7.0
3 1 2 £19.10.0 £1.19.0
10 per cent £1.19.0
Total £21.0.0

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A Survey of the Wheel Carriage Tax for the Shire Of Caithness
from 5 April 1790 to 5 April 1791 By David Brodie Surveyor


Proof
2 Carriages at £8.0.0 each is £16.0.0
1 Carriage at £3.10 each is £3.10.0
£19.10.0
10 per cent £1.19
Total £21.9.0

I David Brodie Surveyor do hereby certify, that upon careful Examination
of the foregoing Rates & Duties I find they amount in whole to Twenty one Pounds nine
Shillings and that upon the 1st Octr. [October] last I delivered to Mr John Davidson Collector
the said Duties an Exact Duplicate of the above Account duly examined and Compared
with the foregoing, which contained my Oath, that Requisitions were left with the
several Masters & Mistresses or at their Dwelling houses of the dates annexed to their
respective Names, that they were to be Charged with the sums hereby certified to
be due from them.
David Brodie Surveyor

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