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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # 1 horse 2 horses 3-5 horses 6 or more horses Duty 10% per 31 George III 10% per 36 George III
24 Oct 1797 Kingarth
William McLeod Bannatyne of Kaims Esqr 2 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £1.5.0
Proof 2 Car. [Carriage] or Saddle Horse £1.5.0
10 pr Ct [per cent] thereon £0.2.6
Additional Duty £1.5.0
Total £2.12.6

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Survey of the rates and Duties on Carriage or Saddle Horses within the Country Parishes of Buteshire
from 5th April 1797 to 5th April 1798 By William Ewart

I William Ewart Assistant Surveyor (by appointment of the Barons of His
Majesty's Court of Exchequer) to Robert Aiken Surveyor of the Counties of Ayr and
Bute Do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing Rates and
Duties I find they amount by prooff to Two pounds twelve shillings and sixpence
Sterling . And I caused deliver, conform to his Receipt, to Alexander May Esquire
Collector of the said duties an exact Duplicate of this Account which contained my
oath that requisitions were delivered or left and that the rates and duties charged
in the said account were just and true conform to the best of my skill and knowledge
and to my belief and no person to my knowledge ommitted who ought to have
been charged
[signed] William Ewart

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