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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carriages 4 wheel carriages Duty
Earlston Parish
15 Aug 1787 Mr Tood of Kirkland 1 1 £7.0.0
16 Aug 1787 James Home Carrolside 1 1 £7.0.0
Honbl. [Honourable] Mr Bailie Mellerstain 3 1 2 £17.10.0
Honbl. [Honourable] Mrs Rachel Hamilton Mellerstain 1 1 £7.0.0
6 1 5 £38.10.0
Lauder Parish
17 Aug 1787 Andrew Grey Norton 2 2 £14.0.0
Longformacus Parish
18 Aug 1787 Capt. [Captain] Roddam Home 1 1 £7.0.0
The Parishes Collected
Buncle 1 1 £3.10.0
Coldinghame 5 1 4 £31.10.0
Ayton 2 2 £14.0.0
Eymouth 1 1 £7.0.0
Fowlden 2 2 £14.0.0
Hutton 4 2 2 £21.0.0
Whitsome 1 1 £3.10.0
Ladykirk 1 1 £7.0.0
Coldstream 5 1 4 £31.10.0
Eccles 3 3 £21.0.0
Edrom 7 1 6 £45.10.0
Dunse 3 3 £21.0.0
Langton 1 1 £7.0.0
Greenlaw 3 3 £21.0.0
Westruther 1 1 £7.0.0
Nenthorn 2 2 £14.0.0
Martin 2 2 £14.0.0
Earlston 6 1 5 £38.10.0
Lauder 2 2 £14.0.0
Longformacus 1 1 £7.0.0
53 8 45 £343.0.0
Proof 8 Carriages at £3.10.0 is £28.0.0
45 Carriages at £7.0.0 is £315.0.0
£343.0.0

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[Page] 23 Survey of the WHEEL CARRIAGE TAX. Continued.

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull examination
of the foregoing several Rates and Duties I find they amount to the sum of Three hundred
and Forty three pounds Sterling And that upon the twenty ninth of October (1787) I delivered
to David Renton Collr. [Collector] of the County of Berwick and exact duplicate of this Accmpt. [Accompt] duly
examined & Compared and which contained my Oath that Requisitions were sent to the several
foregoing Inhabitants and that they were charged according to their answers or my knowledge and belief
they were liable in said duties. William Johnstone Surveyor

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