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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%
7 Jun 1791 Doctor John Gilchrist 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Mrs Walter Riddell 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
8 Jun 1791 Thomas Goldie Esquire 1 1 £3.10.0 £0.7.0
Captain John Hamilton 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Henry Clint Vintner 3 3 £21.0.0 £2.2.0
Doctor John Harley 1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
Thomas Dickson Inkr [Innkeeper] 1 1 £3.10.0 £0.7.0
Henry Dickson Innkeeper 1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
Doctor Copland 1 1 £3.10.0 £0.7.0
Mrs McVitie 3 3 £21.0.0 £2.2.0
Mrs Lowthian 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Doctor Babington 1 1 £3.10.0 £0.7.0
16 4 8 4 £102.0.0 £10.4.0

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Survey of the WHEEL-CARRIAGE TAX. in the Burgh of Dumfries,
from 5 April 1791 to 5 April 1792 by William Currie Surveyor


Proof
4 Two Wheel Carriages @ £3.10.0 is £14.0.0
8 Public Carriages @ £7.0.0 is £56.0.0
4 Private Carriages @£8.0.0 is £32.0.0
16 is £102.0.0
10 per Cent £10.4.0
Total £112.4.0

I William Currie Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon
carefull examination I find the foregoing duties Amount to the
sum of One Hundred and Twelve Pounds four shillings Str. [Sterling]
and that upon the Twenty fourth day of Novr [November] Seventeen hundred and
Ninty one Years I delivered to Mr Francis Maxwell Coltr [Collector] of said
duties an exact duplicat of Which Accots [Accounts] duly examined and
Compared which contained my Oaths that the preceeding Inhabitants
were dully Charg:d with requesititions And that they were Charged
in Conformity to their Several returns and according to my knowledge
and belief that they were Liable in said duties

by William Currie Surveyor
Joseph Johnston J: P [Justice of the Peace]

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