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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%
30 Jul 1791 Mr. Alexander Taylor Vintner (Licenced to post) 2 2 £14.0.0 £1.8.0
27 Jul 1791 Mrs. Crawford 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Total 3 2 1 £22.0.0 £2.4.0

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Survey of the Wheel-Carriage Tax in Queensferry
from the 5th April 1791 to the 5th April 1792 By James Watsone Surveyor

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2 Public Carriages at £7.0.0 each ....... £14.0.0
1 Private Carriage at £8.0.0 each ....... £8.0.0
£22.0.0
To the 10 per cent on the same ......... £2.4.0
£24.4.0

I James Watson Surveyor aforesaid Do herby certify that upon
carefull examination of the forgoing Rates and Duties I find they
amount in whole to the Sum of Twenty four pounds four shillings Sterl. [Sterling]
And that upon the fourteenth day of October last I delivered
to Mr. Robert Chapman Collector for the foresaid Borough an exact
Duplicate of this Survey which contained my oath that the Several
persons before named were duly served with Requisitions or Notices
whereby they were to be charged with the several Duties hereby
certified to be due by them. -
James Watsone Surveyor
Linlithgow 2nd. November 1791

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