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Date Masters/mistresses names Actual # 2 wheel carts (2s) 3-4 wheel wains/wagons (4s) Duty
15 Sep 1788 Portpatrick
Patrick Simson near Halfwayhouse 1 1 £0.2.0
John Gebbie in Meiklemark 1 1 £0.2.0
2 2 £0.4.0

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Wigtownshire [Page] 265

Survey of the CART TAX. in the Shire of Wigtoun from
the 5th of April 1788 to the 5th of April 1789 by Anthony Macmillan Surveyor

Proof 2 carts @ 2/- [£0.2.0] each is 4/- [£0.4.0]

I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon
careful examination of the foregoing Several rates and Duties I find
the amount in whole to be four Shillings Sterling; and that upon
the Twelfth day of Novemr. [November] one thousand Seven hundred
& eighty eight years I delivered to Thomas Adair Esqr. Writer to
the Signet Collector of the said Duties an exact Duplicate of
the foregoing which contained my oath that requisitons were
left with or at the dwelling houses of the said Several persons
of the dates annexed to their respective names that were to
be charged with the Sums hereby certified to be due from
them
Anthony Macmillan

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