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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carriages 4 wheel carriages Duty
1786 The Royal Burgh of Ayr
10 Oct 1786 Mr William Dunn Vintner 2 2 £10.10.0
Mr Andrew Cathcart 1 1 £5.5.0
14 Oct 1786 Baillie Rankine 1 1 £5.5.0
Mr John MacAdam Writer 1 1 £2.12.6
16 Oct 1786 Countess of Crawford 1 1 £5.5.0
6 1 5 £28.17.6

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WHEEL CARRIAGE TAX

From 10th October 1785 to 5th April 1786 -- Rob Aiken Surveyor

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5 - 4 wheeled carriages @ £7. per Annum or £5.5.0 for ¾ of a year is £26.5.0
1 - 2 wheeled carriages @ £3.10.0 per Annum or £2.12.6 for ¾ of a year is £2.12.6

£28.17.6

I Robert Aiken aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon
Careful Examination of the foregoing several Rates and Duties
I find they amount to Twenty Eight pounds Seventeen Shillings
and six pence Sterling And that upon the fourth day of April I
delivered to Mr James Johnston Collector of said Duties an Exact
Duplicate of and duly Examined and Compared with the
forgoing Account which contained my Oath that notices
were left with the several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling
Houses and that the Rates and Duties Annexed to their
respective names are just and true Charges against them
to the best of my Skill and Knowledge.
Rob Aiken Surveyor

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