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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%
3 -- 1792 Baily Edward Whigham 1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0

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Survey of the Wheel Carriage Tax in the Borough
of Sanquhar from 5 April 1792 to 5 April 1793 by William Laidlaw Surveyor

Proof
1 Four Wheel Carriage Public @ £7.0.0 is ------ £7.0.0
10 P Cent is £0.14.0
Total £7.14.0

Dumfries 12th November 1792
I William Laidlaw Assistant Surveyer aforesaid do hereby
certify that upon careful Examination I find the
foregoing Duties Amount to the sum of Seven pounds
fourteen shillings and that upon the Tenth day of November
Current I delivered to Provost Johnstone Collector of the said
Duties an Exact Duplicate here of which contained my
oath that the before named Baily Edward Whigham was
duly served with a requisition and that he was charged con-
form to his return and according to my knowledge and belief
that he was liable in said Duties -
William Laidlaw
Robert Henderson J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

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