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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # of horses Additional duty Duty for 9 months 20% per 37 George III
1798
31 Mar 1798 John Fordyce Esq. of Ayton p [per] amended return 4 £0.15.0 £0.3.0.0
John Home Esq. W.S. [Writer to the Signet] Ninewells p [per] amended return 2 £0.7.6 £0.1.6.0
William Robertson Esq. Upsettlington p [per] amended return of 4 Horses in place of 2 charged makin a difference of £0.7.6 £0.1.6.0
£1.10.0 £0.6.0.0

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[Page] 29
Additional Survey
of the Additional Duty on Carriage and Saddle Horse Tax, per 37 Geo. III. Cap. 134 in
Berwickshire from 5 April 1797 to 5 April 1798 by William Johnstone Survr [Surveyor].

Sum of these Duties for 9 months is £1.10.0
Sum of 20 pCt [percent] on the above p [per] 37 Geo 3d is £0.6.0
£1.16.0 Ster. [Sterling]

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examina
tion of the foregoing duties I find that they amount to the sum of One Pound sixteen shil [shillings]
Ster [Sterling] And that upon the 1 April 1798 I delivered to David Renton Collector of said duties
an exact duplicate of this Acct [Account] duely examined and Compared And that the foregoing
Inhabitants were charged in Conformity with their amended Returns Or to the informa
tion from the Tax Office in Edinburgh that they were liable in said duties.
William Johnstone Survr [Surveyor].

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