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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carts 3-4 wheel wains/wagons Duty 10% per 31 George III
Whittinghame Parish
5 Jul 1791 George Kempt Roughlaw Mains 2 2 £0.4.0 £0.0.4.8
John Clark carrier Whit. [Whittinghame] 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
William Cockburn Whittinghame 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
Archibald Lauchlen Grange 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
5 5 £0.10.0 £0.1.0.0
The Parishes Collected
Innerwick Parish 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
Preston 5 5 £0.10.0 £0.1.0.0
Athelstaneford 2 2 £0.4.0 £0.0.4.8
Dirleton 6 6 £0.12.0 £0.1.2.4
Aberlady 9 9 £0.18.0 £0.1.9.6
Haddington 5 5 £0.10.0 £0.1.0.0
Gladesmuir 15 15 £1.10.0 £0.3.0.0
Tranent 39 39 £3.18.0 £0.7.9.6
Prestonpans 7 7 £0.14.0 £0.1.4.8
Ormiston 6 6 £0.12.0 £0.1.2.4
Pencaitland 6 6 £0.12.0 £0.1.2.4
Salton 2 2 £0.4.0 £0.0.4.8
Gifford 3 3 £0.6.0 £0.0.7.2
Whittinghame 5 5 £0.10.0 £0.1.0.0
111 111 £11.2.0 £1.2.2.4

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Survey of the Cart Tax in Haddingtonshire
from the 5 April 1791 to the 5 April 1792 Continued

Proof 111 Carts at £0.2.0 is £11.2.0
and 10 p Cent. on £11.2.0 is £1.2.2.4
amounting in all to £12.4.2.4 Sterling

I William Johnstone Survr. [Surveyor] aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull examination I find
the foregoing duties amount to the sum of Twelve pounds four shillings two pence & four tenths of a
penny Ster. [Sterling] And that upon the 26 Oct [October] 1791. I delivered to Patrick Wilkie depute Collector of these
duties an exact duplicate of this Acct. [Account] duly examined & compared which contained my Oath that the
foregoing,Inhabitants were duely served with requisitions & that they were charged in conformity to their several
returns or according to my knowledge & belief that they were liable in said duties
William Johnstone Surv. [Surveyor]

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