E326/8/17/79

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Abstract of the Wheel-Carriage Tax Within the Shire of
Inverness from the 5th Apl. [April] 93 to the 5th April 1794 by John Rose Surveyor

Proof of the Abstract as Follows
2 Private Carriages with four wheels .... £18.0.0
15 Private Carriages with four wheels at £8.0.0 each .... £120.0.0
1 Private Carriage with two wheels at .... £3.10.0
18 Total .... £141.10.0
Interest yron [thereon] at 10 prCent [per cent] .... £14.3.0
Grand Total .... £155.15.0

NB the above sum to be paid by Mr. James Grant Collector for the Shire of Inverness


Proof as Follows
8 Public Carriages at £7.0.0 each is .... £56.0.0
10 pr [per] Cent Interest thereon .... £5.12.0
Total public Carriages with 10 p C [per cent] Ints [Interest] thereon .... £61.12.0)
Brought down private carriages with 10 per cent interest thereon ....... £155.15.0)
Total public & private Carr. [Carriages] within the Shire & Town of Invss. [Inverness] .... £217.7.0

[I] John Rose Surveyor aforsaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull examination of the Above duty I [find]
they Amount to two Hundred & Seventeen pounds Seven Shillings Sterling and that [up]on
the Twenty fourth of November last I delivered to Messrs Grant & McDonald Collectors of
the said Duties exact Duplicate as Stated in the Above Account which Contained my [oath]
that the preceeding Inhabitants were duely Served with requisitions requiring of them [within]
fourteen days to deliver to me an Attested list of their Servants horses and [carriages]
employed and used by them from the 5th Apl. [April] 92 to the 5th Apl. [April] 93 and that the [account]
was made up from their Several returns to me from the best information
from my own Certain knowledge of their respective establishments
John Rose Surv. [Surveyor]

Transcriber's notes

Unable to read dates and some words due to the fold in the book