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Survey of Forfar Shire continued

Wheel Carr: [Carriage] Tax
Forfar Shire
To 5th April 1793

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in left margin: Comd [Compared] w [with] 2 Copy Clyde & duplicate

14 Carriages of two Wheels each at £3.10.0 & £0.7.0 each £49.0.0 £4.18.0
4 Carriages of four Wheels each for hire at £7.0.0 & £0.14.0 each £28.0.0 £2.16.0
39 Carriages of four Wheels each private at £8.0.0 & 16s each £312.0.0 £31.4.0
57 Carriages as above £389.0.0 £38.18.0

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing
[rates] and duties I find they amount to three hundred and Eighty nine pounds Sterling, Likewise the Additional
dutie thereon of ten pCt [per cent] being thirty-eight pounds Eighteen Shillings Sterling, and that upon the
[-] day of [-] 1793 I delivered Capt [Captain] James Clayhills of Invergowrie principall Collector of the said duties
for the Shire aforesaid, an exact duplicate of the above Account (as will appear from -- )
duly examined and compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath that notices
were left with the Several 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 Carriages retained or
employed by them from the fifth day of April 1791 to the fifth day of April 1792 and that the said [Account]
or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me, and from the best information I could procure of the
Carriages of those whose lists are deficient, and others who neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in terms
of the notices left with them as aforesaid
William Greig Surveyor


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