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52 Selkirk 191

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

52 Horses at 2/3 [£0.2.3] each is £5.17.0
£5.17 at 20 per Cent is £1.3.4.8
Sum Total £7.0.4.8

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing dutys I find they amount to the sum of
seven pounds four pence and eight tenths and that upon the Eleventh day of November
I delivered to Peter Tait Collector of those dutys for the Burgh aforesaid
an exact duplicate of the above duty compared which Contained my Oath that the
preceeding inhabitants were duly served with Requisition of the above dates requiring them
within 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 August 1797 to the 5 of April 1798 as well as an account of what Horses they might use or employ any where Else and that the forgoing report was made up from their several attested 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