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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%
Royal Burgh of Ayr
23 [Sep] 1794 Mr William Dunn Vintner 5 5 £35.0.0 £3.10.0
28 [Sep] 1794 The Countess of Craufurd 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.13.0
Hugh Hamilton Esq. Bellisle 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Mrs Ferguson Doonholm 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
John Hamilton Esqr. Sundrum 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0
Mr Andrew Cathcart Vintner 1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
Total 10 6 4 £74.0.0 £7.8.0

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Survey of the Rates and Duties upon Wheel carriages within the Royal Burgh of Ayr
from the 5th. April 1794 to 5th. April 1795 By Robert Aiken Surveyor

Proof
6 Public Carriages at £7.0.0 each £42.0.0
4 Private Carriages at £8.0.0 each £32.0.0
£74.0.0
10 per cent thereon £7.8.0
Total by Proof £81.8.0

I Robert Aiken Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby Certify
that upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing Rates &
Duties I find they amount to Seventy four pounds
Ster. [Sterling] which with the ten per Cent duties thereon being
Seven pounds Eight shillings Str. [Sterling] makes them amount
in whole to Eighty one pound Eight shillings Sterg.
And that upon the Twenty third day of November
last I delivered to Mr Thomas McClelland Collector of
said Duties for said Burgh at his office An
exact Duplicate of And duly examined &
Compared with the foregoing account wich Contained my
Oath That Notifications were delivered or left
of the dates foresaid And that the Rates &
duties charged in said Account are just & 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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