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44 Peebles 165

A Survey of the HORSE TAX, per 37 Geo. III. Cap. 108. in the Burgh of Peebles
from the 5 of July 1797 to the 5 April 1798 By William Brunton Surveyor

41 Horses at 2/3 [£0.2.3] Each £4.12.3
£4.12.3 @ 20 per Cent £0.18.5.4
[Total] £5.10.8.4

I William Brunton Surveyor foresaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination
of the foregoing Tax I find they Amount to the Sum of Five pound Ten
shillings eight pence and four tenths and that upon the [date missing] day of [date missing] I
delivered to James Hall Collector of said duties for the Burgh foresaid an exact duplicate
of the above duly compared which contained my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants
were duly served with Requisition of the dates foresaid desiring them with in fourteen days
to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose. An attested list of all
the Horses used and employed by them from the 5 of July 1797 to the 5 April 1798
as well as an Account of what Horses they might use and employ any where Else and
that the foregoing report was made up from their Several lists or returns to me from the best
information I could procure or from my own Certain knowledge of their respective Establishments
[signed] William Brunton