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A Survey of the Wheel-Carriage Tax in the Burgh of Peebles
from The 5 of April 1792 to the 5 of April 1793 by William Brunton Surveyor

I William Brunton surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing duties I find they
amount to the Sum of Seven pound fourteen shillings and that upon the third day of November 1792 I delivered to
John Hyslop Collector of these duties for the Burgh aforesaid 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 when calling for that purpose an Attested list of all the Servants Horses and
Carriages used and employed by them from the fifth of April 1792 to the 5 of April 1793 as well as an account of 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 of from my own certain
knowledge of their respective Establishments
William Brunton

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