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A Survey of the Wheel-Carriage Tax in the Burgh of Selkirk
from the 5th of April 1794 to the 5 of April 1795 by William Brunton Surveyor


Proof
2 Carriages at £7.0.0 Each is £14.0.0
£14 at Ten per Cent £1.8.0
Sum Total £15.8.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I find the above
duties amount to the Sum of fifteen pound Eight Shillings and that upon fifth day of November
1794 I delivered to Peter Tait 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 aforesaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to my upon calling
for that purpose an Attested list of all the Servants Horses and Carriages used and employed by them from
the 5th April 1794 to the 5th April 1795 as well as account of what Servants Horses and Carriages they
might use and employ any where else and that the foregoing report was made up from their Several
attested lists or returns to me from the best information I could procure or from my own certain knowledge
of their respective Establishments.
William Brunton