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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # Carriage horses
(10s each)
Saddle horses
(10s each)
Duty
12 Jul 1788 John Yule N. [North] Berwick 1 1 £0.10.0
William Swinton 1 1 £0.10.0
Hugh Dalrymple 3 2 1 £1.10.0
Capt. [Captain] James Dalrymple 2 2 £1.0.0
James Manderson 1 1 £0.10.0
Charles Dalrymple 1 1 £0.10.0
Alexander Stein 1 1 £0.10.0
James Sommerville 1 1 £0.10.0
Robert Blair Innkeeper 1 1 £0.10.0
12 3 9 £6.0.0
Proof 3 Carriage Horses at 10/- [£0.10.0] is £1.10.0
Proof 9 Saddle Horses at 10/- [£0.10.0] is £4.10.0
£6.0.0

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41 [Page] 121
Survey of the Carriage and Horse Tax. in the [Burgh of]
North Berwick from 5 April 1788 to 5 April 1789 by William Johnstone [Surveyor]



I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon [carefull examination]
I find the above duties amount to Six pounds ster, [sterling] and that upon the [2-- ] [I de:]
:livered to Henry Nelsen an exact duplicate of this account carefully examined [and]
containing my Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were duely served with [requisitions]
and that they were charged according to their several returns or according t [to my know:]
:ledge & belief that they were liable in these duties.

William Johnstone [Surveyor]

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