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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
Parishes Collected
The Country Part of Peebles Parish 10 10 £5.0.0 £0.10.0
Eddleston Parish 8 7 1 £4.5.0 £0.8.6
Newlands Parish 17 9 1 7 £12.5.0 £1.4.6
Kirkurd Parish 11 6 1 4 £7.5.0 £0.14.6
Skerlin Parish 3 3 £1.10.0 £0.3.0
Broughton Parish 4 4 £2.0.0 £0.4.0
Linton Parish 12 9 1 2 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
Glenholm Parish 6 5 1 £3.5.0 £0.6.6
Kilbucho Parish 9 8 1 £4.15.0 £0.9.6
Lyne Parish 5 5 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Manor Parish 9 7 2 £5.5.0 £0.10.6
Drumelzier Parish 9 6 3 £5.12.6 £0.11.3
Tweedsmuir Parish 3 3 £1.10.0 £0.3.0
Stoba Parish 4 4 £2.0.0 £0.4.0
Traquair Parish 15 13 2 £8.5.0 £0.16.6
Innerleithen Parish 12 9 1 2 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
137 108 7 15 7 £79.7.6 £7.18.9

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Carriage and Saddle Horse Tax.

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108 Horses at Sh. [Shillings] 10 Each is £54.0.0
7 Horses at Sh. [Shillings] 15 Each is £ 5.5.0
15 Horses at Sh. [Shillings] 17 and 6 Each is £13.2.6
7 Horses at £1.0.0 Each is £7.0.0
Total £79.7.6
£17.7.6 at 10 per Cent is £7.18.9
Sum total £87.6.3

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the above duties amount to the Sum of Eighty Seven pounds Six Shillings and three pence and that upon the Fourth day of November 1794 I delivered to John Robertson Collector of said duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above which Contained my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duly Served with Requisitions of the dates foresaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered upon calling for that purpose an Attested list of all their Servants Horses and Carriages used and employed by them from the 5 of April1794 to the 5 of April 1795 as well as an account of what Servants Horses and Carriages they might use and employ anywhere and that the foregoing report was made up from their Several Attested lists or returns to me from the best information I could procure or from my own personal knowledge of their Respective Establishments.
William Brunton.

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