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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carts (2s) 3-4 wheel wains/wagons (4s) Duty
18 Jul 1786 & 17 William Christie 1 1 £0.2.0
David Scott 1 1 £0.2.0
Robert Dall 1 1 £0.2.0
Walter Wishart 1 1 £0.2.0
John Spence 1 1 £0.2.0
Andrew Gowans 1 1 £0.2.0
Robert Buchart 1 1 £0.2.0
William Rait 1 1 £0.2.0
James Davidson 1 1 £0.2.0
John Telford 1 1 £0.2.0
James Anderson 1 1 £0.2.0
David Christie 1 1 £0.2.0
Peter & John Lesslie 1 1 £0.2.0
James Philp 1 1 £0.2.0
David Hanton 1 1 £0.2.0
John Wilson 1 1 £0.2.0
David Ferrier 1 1 £0.2.0
William Hutchen 1 1 £0.2.0
John Johnston 1 1 £0.2.0
John Rate 1 1 £0.2.0
John Jameson 1 1 £0.2.0
John Littlejohn 1 1 £0.2.0
Alexander Milne 1 1 £0.2.0
Andrew Irvine 1 1 £0.2.0
James Lawrence 1 1 £0.2.0
John Dorrat 1 1 £0.2.0
Thomas Weir 1 1 £0.2.0
William Simpson 1 1 £0.2.0
Alexander Live 1 1 £0.2.0
Totall 29 29 £2.18.0

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[page] 11
A Survey of the Duty on two Wheeled Carts Arisen in the Burgh of Aborbrothwick for one
year commencing the 5th April 1786 and ending the 5th April 1787 by William Greig Surveyor

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the fore-
[going] several Duties I find they Amount to two Pounds Eighteen Shillings Sterling & that upon the [--]
1787 I delivered to Mr John Colvill Colector of the said Duties for the Burgh aforesaid an
[exact] Duplicate of the above account (as will appear from [--] hereunto fixed) duly examined and
[compared] with the foregoing which contained my oath that notices were left with the Several per [persons]
before named or at their Dwelling houses of the respective Dates aforesaid requiring them to
[give] in a list of the Carts retained or employed by them from the 5th April 1785 to the 5th April 1786
[--] the foregoing Survey is made out from the acknowledgements of the Several persons
[therein] named that each of them keep & use one Cart or Carts for the purpose of hireing.
[signed] William Greig Surveyor
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