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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%
Kirkaldie
6 Aug 1791 James Towsend Oswald Esq 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Andrew Cowan 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
John Willson 1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
Thomas Meldrum 1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
Mrs Chrystie 1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
Mrs Whyte 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
6 3 3 £45.0.0 £4.10.0

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Survey in the burgh of Kirkaldie from 5th day of April 1790 to 5th day of April 1791
By Charles Robb Assessor

[Page] 59

Prooff 3 Carriages at £7.0.0 Each per annum is £21.0.0 £2.2.0
3 Carriages at £8.0.0 Each per annum is £24.0.0 £2.8.0
totall £45.0.0 £4.10.0

I Charles Robb assessor aforesaid do hereby certifye that upon
carefull Examination of the foregoing duties I find they amount
in whole to fourty five pounds Sterling and the ten per Cent duty to
four pounds ten shillings Sterling and that upon the Eight
day of November I delivered to William Drysdale Collector of the said
duties for the burgh aforesaid an Exact duplicate of the above
account duly Examined and compared with the foregoing which
contained my Oath that nottices were left with the persons before
named or at their dwelling houses of the dates annexed to their
[respective] names requiring them within fourteen days to Give in a
list of their Carriage or sadle horses retained or employed by them
from the 5th day of April 1790 to 5 day of April 1791 and the said
account or survey is made from the list returned to me and from the
best information I could procure of those whose lists are deficient
or neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the nottices
left with them as aforesaid. -
Charles Robb Assessor

Transcriber's notes

Can't make out the first word in line 10 of the declaration.
Surveyor mentions Carriage and sadle horses, though this is wheel-carriage tax.

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