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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carts (2s) 3-4 wheel wains/wagons (4s) Duty
3 Oct 1785 Royal Burgh of Rutherglen
Gabriel Gray Esqr. 8 8 £0.8.0
George White Esqr. of Bankhead 1 1 £0.1.0
John Blair in Rutherglen 2 2 £0.2.0
Alexander Murdoch 1 1 £0.1.0
John McAllister 1 1 £0.1.0
John Spence 1 1 £0.1.0
Gavin Pettigrew 1 1 £0.1.0
William & Walter Whites 1 1 £0.1.0
Patrick Fife 1 1 £0.1.0
Mathew Park 1 1 £0.1.0
James Lauron 1 1 £0.1.0
Total of the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen 19 19 £0.19.0

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Cart Tax
Survey on the Duties on Carts in the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen from the 10th of
Octr [October] 1785 to the 5th April 1786 by William Mure Surveyor

Proof
19 carts at £0.2.0 each per year for one half year is £0.19.0
Grand total £0.19.0

I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby certify, that upon care
ful Examination of the foregoing several rates and Duties, I find they amount,
in Whole, to Nineteen Shilling Sterling; and that upon the [--]
I delivered to [--] Collector of the said Duties of the Shire aforesaid,
an exact Duplicate of the Above Account, duly examined and compared
with the foregoing, which contained my Oath, that Notices were left with
the Several Inhabitants, or at their Dwelling-houses, of the Dates annexed
to their respective Names, that they were to be charged with the Sums
hereby certified to be due from them -- [signed] by me William Mure Surveyor

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