E326/9/16/18

Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # 2 horses 3-5 horses 6 or more horses Duty
Wigtounshire -- No of Inhabitants Actual Number of Horses
Parishes collected No chargeable, -- 1, 3qrs [quarters] 3/9 2, 3 & 4 [per] 3 qrs [quarters] 5/7½ 5 & upwards 7/6d
Kirkinner -- 1 5 4 4 £1.2.6
Sorbie -- 1 7 6 6 £2.5.0
Country part of Whithorn -- 2 4 2 -- 2 £0.7.6
Glasserton -- 2 11 9 2 7 £3.3.9
Glenluce -- 1 3 2 2 £0.11.3
Kirkmaiden -- 2 5 3 -- 1 2 £0.15.0
Stonykirk -- 1 3 2 2 £0.11.3
Portpatrick -- 2 4 2 -- 2 £0.7.6
Kirkholm -- 1 2 1 -- 1 £0.3.9
Leswade -- 1 4 3 3 £0.16.10½
Inch -- 1 4 4 3 £0.16.10½
-- 15 ) 52 27 - 6 18 13 £11.1.5

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2 (Additional Carriage and Riding horse tax.) in
Shire of Wigton continued

Proof
6 at 3/9 [£0.3.9] each -- £ 1.2.6
18 at 5/7½ [£0.5.7 1/2] -- £ 5.1.3
13 at 7/6 [£0.7.6] -- £ 4.17.6
[Total] -- £11.1.3

I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon caref [careful]
examination of the foregoing Several rates & duties I find they amount in
whole to the sum of Eleven Pounds one Shilling & three pence Sterling
And that upon the Eighteenth day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety I
delivered to Mr Thomas Adair Writer to the Signet Collr [Collector] for sd [said] shire an exact Dupli [Duplicate]
of the foregoing which contained my oath that Requisitions or notices w [were]
left with or delivered to the several foregoing Inhabitants of the
dates annexed to their names to be charged with the duties he [hereby]
certified to be due from them -- [signed] Anthony Macmillan

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This surveyor has changed the number of headings to suit his own County circumstances. These have been included in transcription, and where necessary separated by --.

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