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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carts (2s) 3-4 wheel wains/wagons (4s) Duty
17 Oct 1786 Robert Barclay 1 1 £0.2.0
James Will Senr. [Senior] 1 1 £0.2.0
James Will Junr. [Junior] 1 1 £0.2.0
Robert Duncan 1 1 £0.2.0
Totall 4 4 £0.8.0

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[page] 77
A Survey of the Dutie on two Wheeled Carts Arisen in the Burgh of Bervie for one
Year commenceing the 5th April 1786 and ending the 5th April 1787 by William Greig Surveyor

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing
Several duties I find they amount to Eight Shillings Sterling, and that upon the [--] day of March 1787
I delivered Mr [--] Collector 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 nottices were left with the Severall
persons before named or at their dwelling houses of the respective dates aforesaid, requiring them
within fourteen days to give in a list of the Carts employed by them from the 5th April 1785 to the 5th
April 1786 that the foregoing Survey is made out from the lists returned to me, and from the acknow=
=ledgement of Severals of the persons therein named that each of them keep & use one Cart for the
purpose of hiring
[signed] William Greig Surveyor

Transcriber's notes

This Survey relates to the Burgh of Bervie and not Berrie as shown in the Vol 3 Index.
Year dates at the header are different to the statement dates at the foot of page.

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