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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
1797 Parishes Collected
1. Linlithgow Parish 24 20 4 £13.10.0 £1.7.0 £13.10.0
2. Bornëss Parish 29 26 1 2 £15.10.0 £1.11.0 £15.10.0
3. Carridden Parish 17 14 1 2 £9.10.0 £0.19.0 £9.10.0
4. Abbercorn Parish 35 12 4 19 £28.10.0 £2.17.0 £28.10.0
5. Kirkliston Parish 33 25 3 5 £19.15.0 £1.19.6 £19.15.0
6. Dalmaney Parish 24 19 5 £13.17.6 £1.7.9 £13.17.6
7. Ecclesmachan Parish 8 8 £4.0.0 £0.8.0 £4.0.0
8. Uphall Parish 14 13 1 £7.5.0 £0.14.6 £7.5.0
9. Livingston Parish 11 8 3 £6.12.6 £0.13.3 £6.12.6
10. Bathgate Parish 33 30 3 £17.5.0 £1.14.6 £17.5.0
11. Torpichen Parish 8 8 £4.0.0 £0.8.0 £4.0.0
12. Whitburn Parish 12 9 3 £7.2.6 £0.14.3 £7.2.6
Totall 248 192 9 23 24 £146.17.6 £14.13.9 £146.17.6
Proof
192 Horse @ £0.10.0 Each is £96.0.0
9 Horses @ £0.15.0 Each is £6.15.0
23 Horses @ £0.17.6 Each is £20.2.6
24 Horses @ £1.0.0 Each is £24.0.0
£146.17.6
To the 10 per Ct [Cent] thereon £14.13.9
To the Additional Duty £146.17.6
Totall £308.8.9

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8th.
[Page] 165
Linlithgow County CARRIAGE AND SADDLE HORSE TAX. Survey Continued

I James Watson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull
examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties find they amount in whole
to the sum of Three Hundred and eight pounds eight shillings and nine
pence Str [Sterling] And that upon the Eight day of November I delivered
to Mr James Taylor Junr [Junior] Collector for the said County of Linlithgow an
exact Dupplicate of the foregoing Survey which contained my Oath that
the several persons before named were duly served with Requisitions and
Notices whereby they were to be charged with the several Duties hereby
Certified to be due by them
James Watson Surveyor

Linlithgow 5th December
1797

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