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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carts 3-4 wheel wains/wagons Duty 10% per 31 George III
13 Sep 1797 The Burgh of Selkirk
Robert Richardson in Selkirk 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0

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33 Selkirk 103
A Survey of Covered Carriages or Carts with less than Four Wheels, per 35 Geo. III. Cap cix.
in the Burgh of Selkirk from 5 of April 1797 to the 5 April 1798 By William Brunton Surveyor

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful
examination I find the above duty Amounts to the Sum of Ten Shillings and that
upon the Eleventh day of November I delivered to Peter Tait Collector of these 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
above dates 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 Covered Carriages or
Carts used and employed by them from the 5 of April 1797 to the 5 of April
1798 And that this Report was made up from their Several attested lists or
Returns to me from the best information I coud procure or from my certain
knowledge of their Respective Establishments
William Brunton

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