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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # Carriage horses
(10s each)
Saddle horses
(10s each)
Duty
Parish of Holm
1 Dec 1785 Patrick Graeme of Gremshall 2 2 £0.10.0
Mr. James Alison Minister 1 1 £0.5.0
Totall in Holm 3 3 £0.15.0
Parish of Orphir
15 Dec 1785 Hugh Yorston Factor 1 1 £0.5.0
Totall in Orphir 1 1 £0.5.0
Parish of Stromness
17 Dec 1785 Mr John Falconer Minister 1 1 £0.5.0
Parish of Evie
Mr William Anderson Minister 1 1 £0.5.0
Abstract
Parish of Holm 3 3 £0.15.0
Orphir 1 1 £0.5.0
Stromness 1 1 £0.5.0
Evie 1 1 £0.5.0
Totall 6 6 £1.10.0

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ORKNEY No 5 [Page] 63

Survey Carriage and Horse Tax. within the Country
of Orkney from 10th October 1785 to 5 April 1786 by Alexander Fraser Surveyor

Kirkwall 18 March 1786
I Alexander Fraser Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that
Duty of Carriage and Saddle horses within the Country of Orkney
from the tenth of October Seventeen hundred and Eighty five
to the fifth of April Seventeen hundred & Eighty Six amounts
to One pound and Ten shillings Sterl. [Sterling] and I make oath that this
day I delivered to Alexander Fraser Collector of Cess and Windows
duties for the said Country as also Collector of the foregoing duties
a duplicate of the foregoing Survey Alexander Fraser Surveyor
At Kirkwall 10th March 1786
Sworn Before James Traill J:P [Justice of the Peace]

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