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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # 1 horse 2 horses 3-5 horses 6 or more horses Duty 10% per 31 George III 10% per 36 George III
Minto Parish No 1st
The Right Honble. [Honourable] Lord Minto 2 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £1.5.0
Lilliesleaf Parish No 2nd
Sir John Buchannan Riddell Bart. [Baronet] 1 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0 £0.10.0
Parishes Collected
Minto 2 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £1.5.0
Lilliesleaf 1 1 £0.10.0 £0.1.0 £0.10.0
Total 3 2 1 £1.15.0 £0.3.6 £1.15.0
Proof
2 horses at [£0.10.0] each is £1.0.0
1 Horse at [£0.15.0] is £0.15.0
Total duty £1.15.0
Ten per Cent thereon £0.3.6
Additional duty £1.15.0
Sum Total £3.13.6

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A Supplementary Survey of the Carriage and Saddle Horse Tax in the County of Roxburgh from 5th April 1797 to 5th April 1796 by George Rodger Surveyor.
[page] 126

I George Rodger Surveyor aforesaid to hereby Certify that upon carefull
Examination I find the forgoing duties amount to the Sum of Three pounds
therteen Shillings and Sixpence Sterling and that of this date I transmitted
to Mr. John Rutherford Collector of these duties an Exact Duplicate of this
Accompt containing my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly
Served with Requisitions and that they were charged according to their
Several Returns or the best Information.
26 Feby. [February] 1798 George Rodger Surveyor

Observations
Lord Minto formerly Sir Gilbert Elliot, in Survey formerly rendered is charged
with one riding Horse. So in place of being charged at the above rates ought
properly speaking and in conformity to the Statutes to be charged as under, As also Sir
John Buchannan Riddell Barronet, who is charged in former Survey with
five horses which with the above make six. Sir John is a Private in the
Roxburgh Shire Yeomanry and was along with the other Privates Exempted for
his Cavalry Horse. But on the Surveyors Intimating this to Sir John. He in a very
handsome manner returned for Answer that tho a Private that he did not wish
to Reap the benefit of any Exemption and which is the reason of the above [Supplementary]
Charge against Sir John.

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Should be 1798 in Title

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