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Survey of the Rates & Duties upon Wheel Carriages within the Royal Burgh of Irvine
from 5th April 1794 to 5th April 1795 By Robert Aiken Surveyor

Proof
4 Public Carriage at £7.0.0 each £28.0.0
2 private Carriage at £8.0.0 each £16.0.0
£44.0.0
10 p ct [per cent] thereon is £4.8.0
Total by proof £48.8.0

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby
Certify that upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing
Rates and duties I find they amount to Fourty four
pounds Stg [Sterling] which with the ten per Cent Duty thereon
being Four pounds Eight shillings Stg [Sterling] makes the amount
in whole to Fourty eight pounds Eight shillings Stg [Sterling]
And that upon the Twenty fourth day of November
I delivered to Mr William Templeton Collector of said
duties for said Burgh at his Office an exact Duplicate
of And duly Examined & Compared with the foregoing
account, which Contained my Oath That Notifications
were delivered or left of the dates foresaid And that
the Rates & Duties Charged in said account were
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