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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # Carriage horses
(10s each)
Saddle horses
(10s each)
Duty
6 Jan 1786 Town of Nairn
Captain John Grant 1 1 £0.5.0
James Falconer Drackes 1 1 £0.5.0
Mr Alexander Hay 1 1 £0.5.0
Doctor Charles Farquaharson 1 1 £0.5.0
Thomas McLaren Innkeeper 2 2 £0.10.0
Mr Patrick Dunbar Minstr [Minister] 1 1 £0.5.0
7 7 £1.15.0

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NAIRN 40 [Page] 113

Survey of the Carriage and Horse Tax arisen within the Town
of Nairn from the 10th. day of October 1785 to the 5th. day of April 1786 By Archibald Duff Surveyor

Proof
7 Horses at 10/ [£0.10.0] each yearly, for half a year is £1.15.0

I Archibald Duff Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing several rates and duties I find they
amount in whole to one pound fifteen shillings sterling And that
upon the Eighteenth day of March Current I delivered to Alexander Kinnaird
Collector of the said duties for the Town of Nairn aforesaid an exact
Duplicate of the above Accott. [Account] duly examined and Compared with
the foregoing which Contained my oath that Notices were left
with the severall Inhabitants and or at their dwelling Houses
of the dates annexed to their respective Names, In order that
they might make a report of the greatest number of Carriage
and Riding Horses kept & used by them for the period therein
mentioned, which they did in Substance as above.
Archibald Duff Surveyor

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