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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carts 3-4 wheel wains/wagons Duty 10% per 31 George III
The Burgh of Selkirk
John Brydon in Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
Thomas Blackhall in Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
James Renwick in Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
William Davidson in Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
Thomas Currer in Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
Robert Mabon in Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
Alexander Inglis in Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
Andrew Messer in Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
David Brown in Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
John Tait in Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
Andrew Stewart in Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
James Scott in Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
William Grimond Taylor in Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
Robert Grimond in Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
George Messer in Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
William Hyslop in Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
16 16 £1.12.0 £0.3.2.4

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A Survey of the Cart Tax in the Burgh of Selkirk
from the 5 of April 1791 to the 5 of April 1792 By William Brunton Surveyor

Proof
16 Carts @ £0.2.0 Each is £1.12.0
£1.12.0 @ 10 per Cent is £0.3.2.4
Sum Total. £1.15.2.4

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I find the above dutys
Amount to the Sum of One pound fifteen Shillings and four Tenths and that upon the Nine
teenth day of October I delivered to Peter Taitt - Collector of Said dutys for the Burgh
aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the Above which contained my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants
were duly served with Requisitions of the dates aforesaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver
or cause to be delivered to me upon Calling for that purpose An Attested list of All the Servants horses and
Carriages used and employed by them from the fifth of April Ninety one to the fifth of April Ninety two
as well as an account of what Servants horses and Carriages they might use and employ any where Else
and that the forgoing report was made up from their Several Attested lists or Returns to me from the best
information I coud procure or from my own Certain knowledge of their Respective Establishments
William Brunton

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