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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # of horses Additional duty Duty for 9 months 20% per 37 George III
1797 Canongate
19 Sep 1797 Ly [Lady] Elizabeth Anstruther 2 £0.7.6 £0.1.6.0
Revd [Reverend] Dr [Doctor] Hunter 2 £0.7.6 £0.1.6.0
20 Sep 1797 Sir John Whiteford 2 £0.7.6 £0.1.6.0
21 Sep 1797 Duke D' Artois 8 £1.10.0 £0.6.0.0
Lord Adam Gordon 8 £1.10.0 £0.6.0.0
Major Imrie 2 £0.7.6 £0.1.6.0
Major Kinloch 2 £0.7.6 £0.1.6.0
John Leven 2 £0.7.6 £0.1.6.0
22 Sep 1797 R E Phillips 2 £0.7.6 £0.1.6.0
Dr [Doctor] Gregory 2 £0.7.6 £0.1.6.0
Lady Suttie 3 £0.11.3 £0.2.3.0
Lord Esgrove 4 £0.15.0 £0.3.0.0
Lady Elizabeth Wemyss 3 £0.11.3 £0.2.3.0
42 £7.17.6 £1.11.6.0
westkirk parish 117 £21.18.9 £4.7.9.0
South Leith parish 17 £3.3.9 £0.12.9.0
Total 176 £33.0.0 £6.12.0.0
176 Horses at £0.3.9 £33.0.0
£33 at 20 per Cent £6.12.0
£39.12.0
Surcharge
6 Mar 1798 John Cundell brewer Leith 2 £0.18.0

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[Page] 109

Additional Duty on Carriage and Saddle Horse Tax, per 37 Geo. III Cap. 134

I John Scott Asst [Assistant] Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful examination of
the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount to the Sum of Forty pounds and
Ten Shillings Sterling and that upon 3d March currt [current] I delivered into the Office of
George Canstoun Esq collector of said Duties a duplicate of this accounts which
contained my Oath that the preceding Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions
of the dates foresaid and that the Said acct [account] made up from their Several
returns to from the best information I could procure when they failed
to make such Returns John Scott.
Edin. [Edinburgh]23 March 1798.

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