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Date	Masters/mistresses names and designations	Actual #	2 horses	3-5 horses	Duty	10% per 31 George III	10% per 36 George III
1798
31 Mar 1798	John Fordyce Esq. of Ayton p. [per] amended return	4		4	£3.2.6	£0.6.3	£3.2.6
	John Home Esq. W. [Writer] S. [Signet] p. [per] amended return	2	2		£1.5.0	£0.2.6	£1.5.0
	William Robertson Esq. p. [per] amended return of 4 horses in place of 2 charged making a difference of				£1.17.6	£0.3.9	£1.17.6
					£6.5.0	£0.12.6	£6.5.0
	Brought down					£15.0.0
	addl. [additonal] duty of 20 percent p. [per] supplement					£1.16.0
						£16.16.0

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Additional Survey of the CARRIAGE AND SADDLE HORSE TAX. in Berwickshire
from the 5 April 1797 to 5 April 1798 by William Johnstone Surveyor.

Sum of these Duties p. [per] 25th and 29th of Geo 3 is £6.5.0
Sum of the 10 p. [per] cent on the above p. [per] 31st Geo 3 is £0.12.6
Sum of Additional duty p. [per] 36th of Geo 3 is £6.5.0
Total Amount of these Duties is £13.2.6
10 per Cent on Old Duty at 20 p Cent [percent] in New £1.17.6
£15.0.0

I William Johnstone Collector aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find
the foregoing duties amount to the sum Thirteen Pounds two shill. [Shillings] and six pence Ster. [Sterling] and that
upon the 1 April 1798 I delivered to David Renton Collector of these duties an exact duplicate of
this Acct. [Account] duely examined and Compared And that the foregoing Inhabitants were charged in conformity
to their amended returns Or the Information received from the Tax Office in Edinburgh that they
were liable in said duties. William Johnstone Survr. [Surveyor].

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