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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 Ayr
11 Aug 1791 Mr William Dunn Vintner 5 5 £35.0.0 £3.10.0
12 Aug 1791 Mr Andrew Cathcart Vintner 2 2 £14.0.0 £1.8.0
13 Aug 1791 Mrs. Provost Fergusson 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
16 Aug 1791 The Countess of Crawford 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Hugh Hamiliton Esq. of Pinmore 1 1 £3.10.0 £0.7.0
Total 10 1 7 2 £68.10.0 £6.17.0

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Royal Burgh of Ayr
[Wheel Carriage Tax]
From 5th April 1791 to 5th April 1792 By Robert Aitken Surveyor

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Prooff
1 two Wheel'd Carriage at £3.10.0 £3.10.0
7 Four Wheel'd public Carriage. at £7.0.0 £49.0.0
2 Four Wheel'd] Private Carriage at £8.0.0 £16.0.0

Totaling prooff £68.10.0
10 per cent thereon £6.17.0

Total £75.7.0

I Robert Aitken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That upon
careful examination of the foregoing Rates and duties I find they amount
(with the ten per cent thereon six pounds seventeen shillings Sterling)
in whole to Seventy five pounds seven shillings Sterling and that upon
the Ninth day of December Current I delivered to Mr Thomas
McClellan Collector of said duties foresaid Burgh at his office an exact
duplicate of and duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing account
which contained my oath that notifications were delivered or left of the
dates forsaid 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 Aitken

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