E326/10/13/165

Date Masters/mistresses names Number of horses Horses liable in duty Horses not liable Duty 20% per 37 George III
1797 The Burgh of Peebles
Thomas Brown Peebles 1 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
13 Oct 1797 James Reid Surgeon in Peebles 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
James Marshall Tanner Peebles 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
15 Oct 1797 Walter Steel Flesher Peebles 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
William Ballantyne Carter Peebles 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
Peter Ker and Son Peebles 3 £0.6.9 £0.1.4.2
James Steel Carrier Peebles 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
James Tait Peebles 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
James Donaldson Peebles 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
William Donaldson Peebles 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
William Brown Carrier Peebles 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
John Dick Carter Peebles 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
John Girdwood Peebles 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
John Wilson Peebles 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
William Wilson and Son Peebles 4 £0.9.0 £0.1.9.6
James Dickson Dyer Peebles 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
Thomas Calderwood and Son Peebles 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
Robert Tosh Peebles 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
James Weir Peebles 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
John Hislop and Son Peebles 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
Archibald Murray Mercht. [Merchant] Peebles 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
William Sanderson Mason Peebles 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
William Tait & Co. [Company] Merchants Peebles 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
John Hope Carter Peebles 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
Thomas Gentle Peebles 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
41 £4.12.3 £0.18.5.4
Archibald Murray Carter Peebles 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8

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44 Peebles 165

A Survey of the HORSE TAX, per 37 Geo. III. Cap. 108. in the Burgh of Peebles
from the 5 of July 1797 to the 5 April 1798 By William Brunton Surveyor

41 Horses at 2/3 [£0.2.3] Each £4.12.3
£4.12.3 @ 20 per Cent £0.18.5.4
[Total] £5.10.8.4

I William Brunton Surveyor foresaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination
of the foregoing Tax I find they Amount to the Sum of Five pound Ten
shillings eight pence and four tenths and that upon the [date missing] day of [date missing] I
delivered to James Hall Collector of said duties for the Burgh foresaid an exact duplicate
of the above duly compared which contained my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants
were duly served with Requisition of the dates foresaid desiring them with in fourteen days
to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose. An attested list of all
the Horses used and employed by them from the 5 of July 1797 to the 5 April 1798
as well as an Account of what Horses they might use and employ any where Else and
that the foregoing report was made up from their Several lists or returns to me from the best
information I could procure or from my own Certain knowledge of their respective Establishments
[signed] William Brunton

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