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Prooff
124 at 10/ ..... [£0.10.0] ....£62.0.0
32 [at] 15/ ..... [£0.15.0] ....£24.0.0
38 [at] 17/6 ... [£0.17.6] ... £33.5.0
10 [at] 20/ ....... [£1.0.0] .... £10.0.0
204................................... £129.5.0
10 P [Per] Cent on the above £12.18.6
Addl [Additional] duty ... £129.5.0
£271.8.6

Aberdeen 21 February 1798 I Charles Farquharson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby
Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties
I find they amount to One hundred and Twenty nine pounds, five Shillings
Sterl., [Sterling] Likewise the additional duty thereon of ten P [Per] Cent Twelve pounds
eighteen Shillings and Sixpence Sterl., [Sterling] also the Additional duty of One
hundred and Twenty nine pounds, five Shillings Sterl. [Sterling] And that upon
the Twenty first day of February 1798 I delivered to Mr William Copland Depute Collector of
said Duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the
above account as will appear from his receipt hereunto affixed duly
examined and compared with the foregoing, which contained my oath
that requisitions were left with the Several persons before named
at their dwelling houses of the dates annexed to their respective names
requiring them within fourteen days to give in a list of their Carriage
and Saddle Horses, retained or employed by them from the 5 day of April
1796 to the 5th April 1797, and that the Said Account or Survey is made
out from the lists returned to me, and from the best information I
could procure of the Carriage and Saddle Horses of those whose lists
are deficient, and others who neglected or refused to give in a list
thereof in terms of the notices left with them as aforesaid.
Charles Farquharson
At Aberdeen 21st Febry [February] 1798
Sworn before
George More J.P. [Justice of the Peace]