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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carts (2s) 3-4 wheel wains/wagons (4s) Duty
18 Jul 1789 Melrose Parish
George Rae Newtoun 1 1 £0.2.0
John Elliot Newstead 1 1 £0.2.0
James Broomfield Melrose 1 1 £0.2.0
James Hilson 1 1 £0.2.0
4 4 £0.8.0
Parishes Collected
Hawick Parish 14 14 £1.8.0
Sprouston Parish 3 3 £0.6.0
Kelso Parish 37 36 1 £3.16.0
Boudon Parish 4 4 £0.8.0
Lilliesleaf Parish 5 5 £0.10.0
Wilton Parish 2 2 £0.4.0
Melrose Parish 4 4 £0.8.0
69 68 1 £7.0.0
Proof
68 Carts @ £0.2.0 Each is £6.16.0
1 Waggon @ £0.4.0 Each is £0.4.0
Sum Total £7.0.0

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I William Brunton Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon
carefull examination of the foregoing Taxs I find they Amount in whole
to the Sum of Seven pound And that upon the 29 day of December
I delivered to John Rutherford Collector of Said dutys for the Shire aforesaid
a Copy of the above duly compared which Contained my Oath that
Requisitions were left with the forgoing persons that they were to be charged
with the Sums Set Against their Several Names.
William Brunton

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