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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 Irvine
7 Oct 1797 Honble. [Honourable] Patrick Boyle 1 1 £8.0.0. £0.16.0. £0.16.0.
9 Oct 1797 Capt. [Captain] John Campbell 1 1 £8.0.0. £0.16.0. £0.16.0.
Mrs. A [Alexander] Watt Vintner 2 2 £14.0.0. £1.8.0. £1.8.0.
10 Oct 1797 William Bryan Vintner 1 1 £7.0.0. £0.14.0. £0.14.0.
Total 5 3 2 £37.0.0. £3.14.0. £3.14.0.

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Survey of the Rates and Duties on Wheel Carriages within the Royal Burgh of Irvine
From 5th April 1797 to 5th April 1798 by Robert Aitken


Proof
3. 4 Wheeled Carriages at £7.0.0 is £21.0.0.
2. 4 Wheeled Carriages at £8.0.0 is £16.0.0.
£37.0.0.
10% per 31 Geo: 111 £3.14.0.
10% per 36 Geo: 111 £3.14.0.
Total £44.8.0.

I Robert Aitken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon Careful Examin
nation of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount by Proof to
forty four Pounds eight Shillings Sterling, and that conform to this Receipt
there was delivered to Mr William Templeton 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
said Account were just and true to the best of my Skill Knowledge
and Belief and No person omitted known to me who ought to have
been charged.
Robert Aitken

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