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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # 1 horse (10s) 2 horses 3-5 horses 6 or more horses Duty 10% per 31 George III
22 Jul 1791 Robert Romaines Writer 1 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
Simon Weatherstone surgeon 1 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
James Edmonstone 1 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
Alexander Allan mercht. [merchant] 1 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
John Johnston surgeon 1 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
5 5 £2.10.0 £0.5.0

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Survey of the Carriage and Saddle Horse Tax in the Royalty
of Lauder from 5 April 1791 to 5 April 1792 by William Johnstone Surveyor.

Proof 5 Horses at £0.10.0 each is £2.10.0
and 10 percent on £2.10.0 is £0.5.0
amounting in all to £2.15.0 Ster[Sterling]

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I
find that the foregoing duties amount to the sum of Two pounds fifteen shillings Sterling and
that upon the 27 Octr [October] 1791 I delivered to Robert Romaines Collector of these duties an exact
duplicate of this accompt duely examined and Compered which contained my oath that the
preceeding Inhabitants were duely served with requisitions and that they were charged according
to their several returns or according to my knowledge and belief that they were liable in the said
duties. William Johnstone Surveyor.

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