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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # Carriage horses
(10s each)
Saddle horses
(10s each)
Duty
5 Aug 1789 Royal Burgh of Lanark
Miss Porterfield at Smeillon Entered two Coach & one Saddle Horse in Edinr.[Edinburgh]
Commissary John Bannatyne Esq. of Castlebank 1 1 £0.10.0
John Haddow Vintner 1 1 £0.10.0
James Somervile Surgeon 1 1 £0.10.0
James Lind Surgeon 1 1 £0.10.0
William Todd Surgeon 1 1 £0.10.0
James Forrest Mercht [Merchant] 1 1 £0.10.0
Mrs Simpson Vintner 1 1 £0.10.0
Robert Swan Saddler 1 1 £0.10.0
Robert Hutchison Mercht [Merchant] 1 1 £0.10.0
Daniel Murray Mercht [Merchant] 1 1 £0.10.0
Robert Newbigging Writer 1 1 £0.10.0
Samuel & James Chapman Horse dealers of Mouse breaheads 1 1 £0.10.0
Total of the Royal Burgh of Lanark 12 1 11 £6.0.0

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Survey of the Duties on Carriage & Saddle Horses in the Royal Burgh of Lanark for the Year
form the 5th of April 1788 to the 5th of April 1789. Surveyd the 5th day of August 1789.
[Page] 107

Proof
1 Carriage Horse at 10/. [£0.10.0] pr [per] Year is £0.10.0
11 Saddle Horses at 10/. [£0.10.0] pr [per] Year is £5.10.0
12 Grand Total £6.0.0

I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that, upon Carefull examination
of the foregoing Severall rates & duties, I find they Amount, in Whole, to Six pounds Stg. [Sterling]
and that upon the [......] I delivered to James Waggateshaw
Collector of the said Duties for the Burgh aforesaid, an Exact Duplicate of the above
Account, Duly examined & Compared with the foregoing, which Contained My Oath
that Notices were left with the Several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling houses
of the dates Annexed to their respective names that they were to be Charged with
the Sums hereby Certified to be due from them. William Mure

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