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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carriages 4 wheel carriages Private: one carriage Private: two carriages Private: three + carriages Duty 10%
1791 Royal Burgh of Irvine
23 Aug 1791 The Honble [Honourable] Patrick Boyle 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Alexander Watt Vintner 2 2 £14.0.0 £1.08.0
Mrs Shaw Vintrix 1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
Captn.[Captain] Robert Davidson 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Total 5 3 2 £37.0.0 £3.14.0

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Royal Burgh of Irvine
WHEEL- CARRIAGE TAX.
From 5th April 1791 to 5th April 1792 By Robert Aiken Surveyor.


Prooff
3 four Wheel'd Public Carriages at £7.0.0 £21 0.0
2 four Wheel'd private Carriages at £8.0.0 £16 0.0
Total by prooff £37 0.0
10 per Cent thereon £3.14.0
Total £40.14.0


I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That upon
careful Examination of the foregoing rates and duties I find they amount
in whole to Fourty pounds fourteen shillings Sterling with the ten per
Cent thereon being Three pounds fourteen shillings Sterling and that
upon the Tenth day of December Currt. [Current] I delivered to Mr John
Watt Collector of said Duties for said Burgh at his office an Exact
Duplicate of and duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing
account which contained my Oath that Notifications were left or delivered
by one of the dates foresaid and that the Rates charged in said account
were just and true to the best of my skill and knowledge, and to the best
of my belief no person liable to be charged was omitted. -
Robert Aiken

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