E326/7/6/99

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Cart Tax of Forfar Shire Continued

69 Carts for one Year @ 2ss [£0.2.0] each (only 2 Wheels) £6.18.0

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing
Several rates and duties, I find they amount In whole to Six pounds eighteen Shillings Sterling, and that
upon the [--] day of [--] 1789 I delivered Major David Gordon Collector of the said duties for
the Shire 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 persons beforenamed or at their dwelling-houses of the respective dates afore
said, requiring them to give in a list of the Carts retained or employed by them from the fifth day
of April 1787 to the 5th day of April 1788, and that the foregoing Survey is made out from the lists
returned to me and from the best information I could procure of the Carts of those who neglected or
refused to return lists thereof in terms of the notices left with them as aforesaid
[signed] William Greig Surveyor

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