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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% per 31 10% per 36
8 Jul 1797 John Whitehead Innkr [Innkeeper] 1 1 £3.10.0 £0.7.0 £0.7.0
Mrs Fairbairn Vintner for hyre 2 2 £14.0.0 £1.8.0 £1.8.0
Mrs Clark Vintr [Vintner] for hyre 3 3 £21.0.0 £2.2.0 £2.2.0
Robert Roughead for hyre 1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0 £0.14.0
William Shandy for hyre 1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0 £0.14.0
Mary Laidlaw for hyre 1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0 £0.14.0
Colonel Maitland [for hyre] 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0 £0.16.0
10 1 8 1 £67.10.0 £6.15.0 £6.15.0
Proof 1 Carriage @ £3.10.0 £3.10.0
Proof 8 Carriages @ £7.0.0 £56.0.0
Proof 1 Carriage @ £8.0.0 £8.0.0
£67.10.0
10 p cent [per cent] on £67.10.0 £6.15.0
addl. [additional] 10 p cent [per cent] £6.15.0
£81.0.0

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Survey of the WHEEL-CARRIAGE TAX in the Royalty of Haddington
from the 5 April 1797 to the 5 April 1798

[Page] 53

I John Menzies Surveyor do hereby certify that upon Carefull examination
of the foregoing Rates and duties I find that they amount on the whole to the sum of
Eighty one Pounds Sterling and that upon the nineteenth day October I
Delivered to .................... Collector of these duties an exact duplicate
of this Account duly examined and Compared which contained my oath that
Requisitions were sent to the foregoing Inhabitants of the preceeding dates
and that they were charged the sums annexed to each of their names according
to the answers they made said Requisitions or according to my knowledge and
belief that they liable in these duties

John Menzies Surveyor

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