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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%
The Parishes Collected
Chirnside 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Buncle 1 1 £3.10.0 £0.7.0
Hutton 3 1 2 £19.10.0 £1.19.0
Edrom 4 4 £32.0.0 £3.4.0
Langton 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Greenlaw 4 2 2 £30.0.0 £3.0.0
Eccles 3 3 £24.0.0 £2.8.0
Coldstream 4 4 £32.0.0 £3.4.0
Dunse 5 1 1 2 1 £35.10.0 £3.11.0
Nenthorn 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Martin 5 1 3 1 £36.10.0 £3.13.0
Earlston 4 1 2 1 £28.10.0 £2.17.0
Westruther 2 2 £16.0.0 £1.12.0
Lauder 2 2 £14.0.0 £1.8.0
Channelkirk 1 1 £3.10.0 £0.7.0
Eyemouth 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Ayton 2 2 £16.0.0 £1.12.0
Coldinghame 4 2 2 £21.0.0 £2.2.0
48 8 7 30 3 £344.0.0 £34.8.0

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Survey of the Wheel-Carriage Tax in Berwickshire Continued

Proof
8 Carriages at £3.10.0 £28.0.0
& Carriages at £7.0.0 £49.0.0
30 Carriages at £8.0.0 £240.0.0
3 Carriages at £9.0.0 £27.0.0
Sum is £344.0.0
and 10 pCent [per cent] on this Sum is £34.8.0
Amounting to £378.8.0 Sterling

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination
I find the foregoing duties amount to the sum of Three hundred and Seventy
eight Pounds Eight shillings Sterling And that upon the 6th Octr. [October] 1792 I delivered
to David Renton Collector of said duties an exact duplicate of this Accompt duely
examined & compared which contained my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants
were duely served with requisitions and that they were charged according to their
answers thereto or according to my knowledge and belief that they were liable
in said duties.
William Johnston Surveyor

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