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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # 2 horses 3-5 horses 6 or more horses Duty
1789 South Leith number chargeable-1 £0.3.9 2,3,4 £0.5.7 1/2 5 & upwards £0.7.6
5 Sep 1789 Mr James Pillans Mert [Merchant] 2 1-1 £0.3.9
Mr William Mitchell Merchant 3 2 2 £0.11.3
7 Sep 1789 Countess of Fife 2 1-1 £0.3.9
Mrs Horn 2 1-1 £0.3.9
Captain Macrae 3 2 2 £0.11.3
Lady McLeod Leith Walk 2 1-1 £0.3.9
Honble [Honourable] Mrs Mure 2 1-1 £0.3.9
Alexander Alison Esq 2 1-1 £0.3.9
28 18 10-6 4 £2.5.0
Parishes Collected
West Kirk -- 60 170 110-32 54 24 £30.3.9
Canongate -- 14 42 28-8 13 7 £7.15.7 1/2
South Leith -- 8 18 10-6 4 £2.5.0
No of Inhabitants -- 82 230 148-46 71 31 £40.4.4 1/2
22 Feb 1790 David Wilson Kirkgate Leith 2 1-1 £0.3.9
232 149-47 71 31 £40.8.1 1/2

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17 Mar 1790
I John Taitt Surveyor aforesaid hereby Certify that upon
Carefull examination of the above Accounts I find it amount to
the Sum of Forty Pounds Eight Shillings
one penny halfpence Sterling and that I this day delivered
to George Cranston Esq at his Office in Edinburgh an exact
duplicate of the Above Account duly examined and Compared
with the foregoing which Certified that Requisitions were [left]
with the foregoing Inhabitants [and] that they are Charged Conform[ing]
to their Own Returns or on the best Information I could procure
John Taitt

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