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Date Masters/mistresses names Number of horses Horses liable in duty Horses not liable Duty 20% per 37 George III
1797 The Burgh of Selkirk
15 Sep 1797 John Henderson in Selkirk 2 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
Andrew Henderson Senr. [Senior] Selkirk 2 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
Andrew Henderson Junr. [Junior] Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
William Roger Selkirk 2 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
Thomas Anderson Surgeon Selkirk 2 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
John Lang Writer Selkirk 3 3 £0.6.9 £0.1.4.2
Thomas Ingles Mercht. [Merchant] Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
Ebenezer Clarkson Surgeon Selkirk 2 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
James Anderson Taylor Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
James Renwick Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
14 Sep 1797 Walter Clark Selkirk 2 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
Robert [Terdhope] Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
Thomas Hynd Selkirk 2 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
Andrew Stewart Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
George Dobson Mason Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
William Mabon Selkirk 2 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
Thomas Currar Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
Thomas Stodart Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
John Brydon Selkirk 2 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
Andrew Mercer and Son Selkirk 2 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
David Brown Selkirk 2 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
James Inglis Junr. [Junior] Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
Thomas Blackhall Selkirk 2 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
Robert Scott Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
Thomas Hall Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
Andrew [Hatter] Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
James Blyth Selkirk 2 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
Thomas Beatie Selkirk 2 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
William Davidson Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
Thomas Mitchellhill Selkirk 2 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
James Scott Selkirk 2 2 £0.4.6 £0.0.10.8
Andrew Hislop Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
Robert Gumand Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
William Douglas Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
John Goodfellow Selkirk 1 1 £0.2.3 £0.0.5.4
52 52 £5.17.0 £1.3.4.8

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52 Selkirk 191

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

52 Horses at 2/3 [£0.2.3] each is £5.17.0
£5.17 at 20 per Cent is £1.3.4.8
Sum Total £7.0.4.8

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing dutys I find they amount to the sum of
seven pounds four pence and eight tenths and that upon the Eleventh day of November
I delivered to Peter Tait Collector of those dutys for the Burgh aforesaid
an exact duplicate of the above duty compared which Contained my Oath that the
preceeding inhabitants were duly served with Requisition of the above dates requiring them
within 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 August 1797 to the 5 of April 1798 as well as an account of what Horses they might use or 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 could procure
or from my own certain knowledge of their respective Establishments.
[signed] William Brunton

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