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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% per 31 10% per 36
1797 Royal Burgh of Air
22 Jun 1797 Charles Buchan Esqr. 1 1 £3.10.0 £0.7.0 £0.7.0.0
Countess of Dumfries 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0 £0.16.0.0
23 Jun 1797 William Dunn Star Inn 3 3 £21.0.0 £2.2.0 £2.2.0.0
James Sloan Kings Arms 4 4 £28.0.0 £2.16.0 £2.16.0.0
Andrew Cathcart Queenshead 1 1 £7.0.0 £0.14.0 £0.14.0.0
26 Jun 1797 Hugh Hamilton Esqr. 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0 £0.16.0.0
Mrs Fergusson Doonholm 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0 £0.16.0.0
Countess of Crawford 1 1 £8.0.0 £0.16.0 £0.16.0.0
Total 13 1 8 4 £91.10.0 £9.3.0 £9.3.0.0

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Survey of the Rates of Duties on Wheel Carriages within the Royal Burgh of Ayr
from 5th April 1797 to 5th April 1798 by Robert Aiken

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1 Two Wheeled Carriage at £3.10.0 £3.10.0
8 Four Wheeled Carriages at £7.0.0 £56.0.0
4 Four Wheeled Carriages at £8.0.0 £32.0.0
............................................................£91.10.0
10 per Cent per 31. Geo: [George] III'd £9.3.0
10 per Cent per 36. Geo: [George] III'd £9.3.0
Total....................................................£109.16.0.

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby
Certify that upon Careful Examination of the
foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount
to One hundred and Nine pounds sixteen
shillings Sterling And that (conform to his
Request) I delivered to Mr. Thomas McClelland
Collector of 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 said
Account were just and true to the best of
my skill knowledge and belief. And
no person, known to me, Omitted Who
ought to have been Charged.
Rob Aiken

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