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A Survey of the WHEEL-CARRIAGe TAX in the Shire of Selkirk
from the 5 of April 1792 to the 5 of Aprile 1793
By William Brunton Surveyor

I William Brunton Surveyor do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find
the above duties amount to the Sum of Fifty two Pounds Sixteen Shillings And that upon the fifteen
day of Octbr. [October] 1792 I delivered to John Scott Collector of said duties for the Shire foresaid an
exact Duplicate of the above which containd my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duly served
with Requisitions of the dates foresaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered
to me upon calling for that purpose an Attested list of all the Servants Horses and Carriages used and employed
by them from the 5 of Aprile 1792 to the 5 of Aprile 1793 as well as an acount of all what Servants Horses
and Carriages they might use and employ any where Else and that the forgoing Report was made up
from their Several Attested lists or Returns to me from the best information I could procure or from my own
certain knowledge of their Respective Establishments.
William Brunton