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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
Foulden 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Ayton 3 1 2 £19.10.0 £1.19.0
Eymouth 1 1 £8.0.01 £0.16.0
Coldinghame 5 2 3 £28.0.0 £2.16.0
Chirnside 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Hutton 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Edrom 5 1 4 £35.10.0 £3.11.0
Ladykirk 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Langton 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Coldstream 4 4 £32.0.0 £3.0.0
Eccles 4 4 £32.0.0 £3.4.0
Greenlaw 4 2 2 £30.0.0 £3.2.0
Westruther 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Channelkirk 1 1 £3.10.0 £0.7.6
Lauder 2 2 £14.0.0 £1.8.0
Earlston 5 1 3 1 £36.10.0 £3.13.0
Martin 3 3 £24.0.0 £2.8.0
Nenthorn 2 1 1 £17.0.0 £1.12.0
Dunse 6 1 1 2 2 £46.10.0 £4.13.0
51 7 8 32 2 2 £374.10.0 £37.9.0

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Survey of the Wheel -Carriage Tax in Berwickshire Continued

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7 Carriages at £3.10.0 is £24.10.0
8 Carriages at £7.0.0 is £56.0.0
32 Carriages at £8.0.0 is £256.0.0
2 Carriages at £9.0.0 is £18.0.0
2 Carriages at £10.0.0 is £20.0.0
51 ........................... is £374.10.0
and 10 p.Cent [Per Cent] on £374.10.0 is £37.9.0
Amount of these Duties is £411.19.0 Sterling

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination
I find the foregoing duties amount to the sum of Four hundred and Eleven pounds nineteen
shillings Sterling and that upon the 13th Octr. [October] 1794 I delivered to David Renton [Collector]
of said Duties an exact duplicate of this Accompt duely examined & compared [which]
contained my Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were duely served with [Requisitions]
of the aforesaid dates And that they were charged in conformity to their several [returns]
or according to my knowledge and belief that they were liable in said duties.
William Johnstone Surveyor

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