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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 James Drummond writer 2 £0.7.6 £0.1.6.0
William Moller writer 2 £0.7.6 £0.1.6.0
Cap: [Captain] Brown 2 £0.7.6 £0.1.6.0
25 Sep 1797 Col: [Colonel] Baillie 2 £0.7.6 £0.1.6.0
Cap: [Captain] Walter Watson 2 £0.7.6 £0.1.6.0
Sir John Sinclair Bart. [Baronet] 2 £0.7.6 £0.1.6.0
2nd. Division 12 £2.5.0 £0.9.0.0
Abstract
1st Division to Page 4 187 £35.1.3 £7.0.3.0
2nd [Division to Page] 5 12 £2.5.0 £0.9.0.0
Total 199 £37.6.3 £7.9.3.0
Total £44.15.6.0

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199 Horses at 3/9 [£0.3.9] each £37.6.3
£37.6.3 at £20 percent £7.9.3
Total £44.15.6

I R Maughan Surveyor do hereby certify that upon careful examination
the foregoing Rates & Duties I find they account in whole to the sum of
[forty] five pounds, four shillings and sixpence Sterling and that upon
21st day of February 1798 I delivered to Mess. Donald Smith and
[Daniel] McQueen Collector of said Duties for the City of Edinburgh an
[exact] duplicate of the foregoing Account duly examined and compared which
[contained] my certificate that requisitions were left with the several Inha-
bitants or at their dwelling houses of the date annexed to their respective
Names.
R Maughan Surveyor of Assessed Taxes
Edinburgh
Feb [February] 1798

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