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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carts 3-4 wheel wains/wagons Duty 10% per 31 George III
22 Jun 1791 John Burnet Dunbar 2 2 £0.4.0 £0.0.4.8
Gavin Dawsen Dunbar 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
James Todd carrier Dunbar 2 2 £0.4.0 £0.0.4.8
James Henderson Dunbar 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
John Mathieson Dunbar 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
John Purves Dunbar 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
John Yorston jun. [junior] Dunbar 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
William Paterson Dunbar 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
William Haigs Dunbar 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
Alexander Ogilvy Dunbar 1 1 £0.2.0 £0.0.2.4
12 12 £1.4.0 £0.2.4.8

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Survey of the Cart Tax in the Royalty of
Dunbar from the 5 April 1791 to the 5 April 1792 by William Johnstone

Proof. 12 Carts at £0.2.0 per Cart is £1.4.0
and 10 per Cent on £1.4.0 is. £0.2.4.8
£1.6.4.8 Sterling

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination
I find the foregoing Duties amount to the sum of One pound Six shillings four pence eight tenths
of a penny Ster. [Sterling] and that upon the 26 Oct [October] 1791. I delivered to William Kirkwood Collector
of said duties an exact duplicate of this Acct. [Account] duely examined & compared which contained my
Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duely served with requisitions and that they were
charged in conformity to their several returns or according to my knowledge & belief that
they were liable in said duties. William Johnstone Surv. [Surveyor]

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